The Natural Waist of Woman.
— At a popular physiology lecture lately, Prof. Stirling, of “ Ours,” in the course of an amusing diatribe ngain&t the martyrdom of stays, as worn by women, exhibited a figure of the Venus of Milo side by side with the representation of a woman cut from a Paris fashion plate for 1880, and provoke ! great laughter by asking, “Do meh desire that women should tightlaco themselves so as to form a thing that one could span with two fingers ? The human arm has not grown shorter within the last century.” Is it a coincidence or a wise provision, that a mnh's arm and a woman’s waist beth measure cn an average 30 inches ?
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1204, 17 November 1882, Page 2
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117The Natural Waist of Woman. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1204, 17 November 1882, Page 2
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