THE PERFECT WAIST.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1594, 28 January 1884, Page 2

THE PERFECT WAIST.

Tlis more closely a woman can get her bust to approximate to tlie shape, of a peg-top the prouder and Happier she usually is. Why the peg-top has attained .to thehigh distinction of serving as a model for 'woman is one of the many puzzles connected with' dress. .The Greeks, who certainly knew something about the human form, asi signed to : their ideal waist dimensions quite intolerable to an English woman of to-day. Moreover,, they made it oval, whereas the modorn. waist is round, It is a philiologicat fact that thero is about an,oval waist a delightful suppleness and elasticity, while the round waist, so common at the present day, is hard, rigid, unsystematic, 1 The fact is, that some womeu are blessed with waists naturally small and aval, as every waist naturally is, while other women, less-favored by nature, are determined , tp outdo the smallnesaat no matter what cost. But no discriminating critic, can even fail to

perceive the.difference between natural and artificial smallnesi Perhaps if this were better understood, women - : - Would cease. ; tp ruin their health weaken.the muscles of their back by ?<:' going, out m a tight-fitting cuirass, even at the risk of appearing to depart :v> ; conspicuously.' from woman's dress. .isu They would .then find that some ether problems,such as distribution of weight, ' would suttlq. themselves without much .iK difnulty,—London 'Times.'-