Squeezed in Vyces.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 20, 20 February 1906, Page 2

Squeezed in Vyces.

—o — Chinese View of Anglo-Saxon Women’s Dress. Ny Poon Chew, a Chinese editor who has been visiting New York, has given some candid and amusing criticisms of Anglo-Saxon men and women. “ I cannot understand,” he said, “ why American and English women are so inclined to criticise the women of my country. They say the Chinese women pinch their feet to make them abnormally small, and hold up their hands in holy horror at the custom. At the same time these critics are pinching their own feet until they can hardly suppress their screams of agony. “ And they do not stop at pinching their large feet to make them look small. They add to the crime by putting them up on stilt-like heels, so that in a few month's their feet have become regular museum ireaks of del’ormiiy. ’ “ I'hen they go on with this pinching business until they get to the waist. There they squeeze themselves into a vyce-like thing called corsets, and draw r them up with a block and tackle until mere breathing is agonising. “ When your women fall sick they send for their doctor, who tells them their kidneys are in their feet and their hearts in their mouths. Then they wonder how their physical economy got so disarranged, and take a lot of pills and lay away their corsets to coax the little wanderers back home. “Most of your men also do many silly things in the way of dress. Thousands of them wonder why they have shed all the hair off the tops of their beads.. And at the same time they have used a shoehorn to get a No. 10 head into a No. 6 hat.