To the Editor of the "Nortg-Carxa Datry News."
Siz,—I shall be extremely grateful if you will kindly publish the following in your valued columne.
It has been said that' Shanghai to China is as New York is to America. Whatever style of dress the people in New York put on the whole of America will soon follow. In this plight™I like to present the following paragraphs from "What a Young Wife Ought to Know" for the attention of Chinese women, young and old, and will appeal to the women of foreign nations to help in this re form.
"Let them think for @ moment, that the corset when worn tight enough ta ensure the form which is considered correct, so narrows their long capacity thet they can but half inflate them, und 60 8 double duty la thrown upon the heart in ita effort to purify the blood, while an insufficient quantity of oxygen is given it for the purpose. When the lungs are inflated to their fullest capacity, there is only sufficient oxygen furnished to burn the waste material of the system which is thrown off through the blood. What then must be the result when o half, or a third of the lung capacity ig used "One physician has said: 'Woman by her injurious style of dress is doing as much to destroy the race a9 is man by alcoholism.' Another physician, Dr. Ellis, say: 'The tice of tight lacing hes last century terioration of civilized man, then has war, pestilence and famine combined.' Frances E. Willard said, ' But woman's everlasting befrilled, bedizened, and bedraggled style of dress, is today doing more barm to children unborn, that compel public attention."" born and dying, than all other causes
I am not unmindful of the many reforms necessary on the man's part but I wish to cay that men are doing their best in that of re training from smoking opium, and the prohibition of gambling in Cantos.
Ags the saving of China depends entirely upon the generations to come I hope women will not drop this matter without putting into practice in the form of reform.
Shanghai will lead China, if the women in Shanghai do it, whole China will coon bear good fruits.
I am, ete.,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.