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THE HOUSE I LIVE IN. 



It is greatly to be hoped that the world will 

 very soon get wiser on this subject. 



We generally succeed far better in attempts 

 to mend the works of our own hands than 

 those of the Creator. He appears to have 

 made the human frame so perfect, that if in 

 our ignorance, abuse, excess, or vain attempts 

 to improve it, we did not usually injure it, it 

 might last in a healthy condition for a much 

 longer period than it now does. 



In closing this chapter, I will show you a 

 picture of the bones of two human chests, one 

 of which is in its perfect state, and the other 

 has been injured by tight lacing. I need not 

 remind you which of them has been injured ; 

 its narrow, contracted lower part will at once 

 show you. 



