2413. Tight Lacing.—No woman who laces tight can have good shoulders, a straight spine, good lungs, sweet breath, or is fit to be a wife and mother.
2414. Can it be a pleasant sight to behold a woman cut in two in the middle, as it were, like a wasp? On the contrary, it is as shocking to the eye as it is painful to the imagination.
2415. Every thing that confines and lays nature under a restraint is an instance of bad taste. This is as true in regard to the ornaments of the body as to the embellishments of the mind.
2416. Life, health, reason, and convenience, ought to be taken first into consideration.
2417. Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please.