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"than without," and not a f<w would trll us "that their 

 hralth ivlapscd whenever they inive it up." Tlioso uho 

 had never worn a truss could j;ive no opinion from expe- 

 rieno*' ; and if any philosophei-s had argued from theoretical 

 consit'erations that most men were lietter without a truss, 

 those " philosophers would tjet much the worst of it in 

 tA*** di*ciiii*ioiix." The " statements of personal experience, 

 with their variations in detail," would he all on one side, 

 like "the ill-roasted epg" of Touchstone's illustration, — and 

 like that epg, none the lietter for being onesided. Nor 

 will mm l>e persuaded l>y such arguments to begin the 

 wearing of corsets. "An Observer," and the letter-writer 

 of the Euglish Mrchauic and " Figure Troining," " may as 

 well f ave their preaching " — as to men wearing corsets — 

 "for sonif^thing mere amenable, or at any rate" — no, let 

 the quotation stop there. 



As to women, the case is not altogether the same — nor 

 is it quite the same as regards the artistic question. 

 Narrower flanks than exercise will give to well-built men, 

 and wa-'p-waists for women, may be pretty to look at, and 

 the woo<len busts of Cruikshank's women * may be lovely 

 instead of hideous, for anything I have yet shown. That 

 part of the subject is not quite so amenable to argument, 

 because df gugtibus nou rst ((l.-jiulfDn/iiiii. But I sliall ti^ 

 to show that, so far as the artistic question can be judged 

 by the most celebrated examples, the argument is all 

 against the stmightly-laced, and all in favour of the curve 

 of lieauty. For thi.s, however, illustrations are needed, 

 and they cannot be ready for this week. Next week 

 some Greek and Roman persons in marble shall be intro- 

 duced, to show what the sculptors of old, at least, thought 

 and taught, whom also our modern artists still follow, — 

 and our sbapciieist men and women too. 



{Tobe continued.) 



Time hy Telephone. — At Ann Arbor, Mich., astro- 

 nomical time is furnished by the observatory to subscribers 

 daily at 9 o'clock a.m. by telephone. The telephone trans- 

 mittt^r at the observatory is placed close to a Morse 

 •ounder, wJiieh is oj>erated automatically by the observa- 

 tory clock. From » /iS to Kfi'J the sounder clicks once for 

 each second, and from 8 r>9 to !> o'clock twice for each 

 ■econd. At o'clock it ceases. The click of the sounder 

 ia heard distinctly in the receiving telephones of the sub- 

 ■criben. — Operator. 



The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has purchased 

 2,000 tin l>oxes containing a few simple surgical mat^-rials 

 likely to V^ want<d in ca.sc8 of accident. Some of the 

 boxes are kept on each locomotive, and they each contain 

 one rublKT comjiress, one package of absorbent cotton, 

 six rolU of Imndagep, one pyramid of pins. With the 

 Ux are the following simple directions :— When an arm 

 or leg is crushed, causing haniorrhage, pass compress 

 arriund limb immediately below the injured part In case 

 of rupture of a vein, tie it lightly until arrival of the 

 *urg>-on. Tlie rupture of an artery can be distinguished 

 by the colour of the bhKK), which is red, and spurts out, 

 while a vein has dark blo<j(l, and flows continuously. 

 For wounds on the head or face ajiply absorbent cotton, 

 and bind with a Undagc^ The company has set a good 

 e (ample: 



.1^.^" "*"" •" "Hotoae to •' An Ohicrver" for the circummniire 

 . . . •*'*'■ ""• "^ '""y eorrrcted. Tho followinif chanten 

 •V^W br m»de. Lino 23 «f srticl..-. for "ono iK)i»r,n," reii<l " on.. 

 PCTwm." p»gr 41(;, r.,1 1, line 2 from botl.jtn, for " excepti-mally," 

 nvX "rtcppt int«nition»Ilj."— Line 13 from t-nd of nrticic, for 

 • J»'rntm," nmi" J^mcm,- rttd.-.ik*. 



uriiig Uei:riii|ior. 



I'ATH IN JJECEMBER. 



give thi: conietV path in December as deduced 

 from Prof. Chandler's elements of the orbit. Oui- 

 ligure shows the path for Nov3rnber, deduced from Mr. 



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