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94 your weaknesses, pains, headaches, nervous affections, internal difficulties, and wretched feelings, are caused by your own or mother's corset-strings? Such mother's deserve execration.

"Let men who had rather bury than raise their children, marry tight-lacers; but those who would rear a healthy, talented, happy family, to bless their mature life, nurse their declining years, and perpetuate their name and race among men, should choose those naturally full-chested; for such will be likely to live long, and bear vigorous children. Those who would not have their souls rent asunder by the premature death of wife and children, are solemnly warned not to marry small waists; for such must of necessity die young, and bear few and feeble offsprings. You women who are willing to exchange the rosy cheek of health for laced pallor, the full round form of natural beauty for the poor, scrawny, sunken, haggard, almost ghastly figure of those who lace, or break the heart of husband and friends by your premature death, after agonizing yourselves by thus causing your children's death, till you