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APPENDIX. 



The fact, that the female form has undergone a very 

 material change within the last 20 years, and that this 

 change has been caused by the pressure of stays on parts 

 of the system which are of the utmost importance to the 

 nutrition, and consequent growth, and health of our spe- 

 cies, cannot, and will not, be denied by any competent 

 witness. And that we shall become a stinted, puny, and 

 short lived race, -in consequence, it requires no more in- 

 spiration to predict, than it does to foretell that starvation 

 will produce dwarfs in infancy, and emaciation in adults. 



The effects, indeed, are already visible in the number 

 of pale, dwarfish, and crooked children, which may be 

 seen in the schools and streets of all our cities, and ma- 

 ny of our smaller towns and villages. And whoever, 

 having been interested in the welfare of the rising gen- 

 eration, will contrast, so far as she can recollect, the as- 

 pect of a school composed of both sexes, at the present 

 day, with the appearance of the same number and ages, 

 15 or 20 years ago, cannot, we think, but be convinced, 

 that there has been a great deterioration in our youth, 

 both in respect to form, size, and healthy looks. 



And who, we enquire, would not expect to see such a 



Fig. 136. 



Fig. 137. 



Veniis de Medicis. 



A Modern Lady. 



change in our race, when they behold such a metamor- 

 phosis in the better half of our species, as to have produ- 

 ced from a stock like that represented by Fig. 136, a 



