AN INVERTEBRATE TIGHT-LACER thus writes: from the absence of any correspondence an all-important topic of tight-lacing in your August number, I very much fear that the subject has come to an end. If so, many other subscribers besides me will be very sorry for it. I cannot tell you what pleasure it gave me to see the sentiments that were expressed by so many who, like myself, are addicted to the practice of tight-lacing, and as for many years I have been in the habit of lacing extremely tight, I trust that you will allow me, by inserting this or part of it, to make known that I have never suffered any pain or illness from it. In the days when I was a schoolgirl, stays were worn much stiffer and higher than the flimsy things now used, and were besides provided with shoulder-straps, so that to be very tightly incased in them was a much more serious affair than at the present day. But nevertheless I remember our governess would insist on the greatest possible amount of constriction being used, and always twice a day our stays were tightened still more. A great amount of exercise was inculcated, which perhaps did away with any ill effect this extreme tight-lacing might have occasioned, but while at school I imbibed a liking for the practice, and have ever since insisted on my maid lacing me as tightly as she possibly can. I quite agree with STAYLACE in saying that to be tightly laced in a pair of very tight-fitting stays is a most superb sensation. My two daughters, aged respectively 16 and 18, are brought up in the same way, and would not consider themselves properly dressed unless their stays were drawn together. They can bear me out in my favorable opinion of tight-lacing, and their good health speaks volumes in its praise. I hope, Madame, you will kindly insert this letter in your valuable and largely-circulated Magazine.“