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44 less important in appearance, is deserving of attention; it is relative to the mode of lacing. Madame C., instead of lacing the corset all at once in one direction, and beginning from one extremity, commences the operation from the middle of the waist, upward and downward. This method allows the means of regulating the pressure, according as it may be requisite, to the different parts of the body on which the corset is applied, whilst by the ordinary process it must, as a matter of course, exert the same power in every part.

"The modifications we have related in the construction of an article so generally worn, and which has been much abused, have appeared important enough to the members of the commission you have named, to submit them to your notice, as improvements deserving your appro­bation; we therefore purpose, as conclusions of this report—

"This being the only reward which, according to the regulations of the institution, you are permitted to grant to anyone of its members.

"The society unanimously adopt the above conclusions.

Signed by

N.B.—The copy of the above report, duly signed and sealed by the secretary of l'Athénée des Arts, Sciences, et Belles Lettres, de Paris, is to to be seen at Madame Caplin's Establishment, 58, Berners Street, London.

As an appendage to the above we may insert here the notice from the