One who signs as A YOUNG BARONET says – “As you have given your readers the benefit of ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT’S excellent letter, will you kindly allow another member of the sterner sex to give his opinion on the subject of small waists? Those who have endeavored to abolish this most becoming fashion have not hesitated to declare that gentlemen do not care for a slender figure, but that, on the contrary, their only feeling on beholding a waist of eighteen inches is one of pity or contempt. Now, so far from this being the case, there is not one gentleman in a thousand who is not charmed with the sight. Elderly gentlemen, no doubt, may be found who look upon such things as “vanity and vexation of spirit,” but is it for these young ladies usually cultivate their charms? There is one suggestion I should be glad to make, if you will permit me, and that is, that all those ladies who possess that most elegant attraction, a slender waist, should not hide it so completely by shawls or loose paletots, when on the promenade or in the street. When (by good luck) I chance to meet a lady who has the good taste, I may say the kindness, to show her tapering waist by wearing a close-fitting paletot. I not infrequently turn to admire; and so far from thinking of the means used to obtain the result, I am held spellbound by the beauty of the figure.”