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Injurious effects Of Stays.-The following
curious edict passed in Germany during the
time of Joseph III. "Whereas the dangerous
consequences arising from the use of stays
are universally acknowledged to impair the
health and impede the growth of the fair
sex; when. on the contrary, the suppression
of that part of their dress cannot but be eff
fectual in strengthening their constitution
We hereby enact, that in all orphan houses,
nunneries and other places set apart for the
public education of young girls, no stays of
any kind whatever shall be made use of or
encouraged from henceferth; and it is here
by intmated to all masters and mistresses,
of academies and boarding schools, that any
girl wearing stays shall not be received or
Countenanced in such schools. We also will
and command, that it be enioined to the
College of Physicians that dissertation, a.
dapted to every ones capacity, be forthwith
composed, showing how materially the
growth OF children of the female sex is in
jured by the use of stays. for the better in
formation of parents and scheolmasters who
wish to procure handsome shape to their
children or their pupils, as also all those
who are not rich enough to alter the stavs
in proportion to the growth of their children
or neglect the means to do so. The above
dissertation shall be distributed gratis: the
more SO. as whole nations, unscquainted
with the use of stays, bring up race of
children remarkable for their healthy con-
stitu.ions."