ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT says—“Though the subject on which I propose to address to you a few observations hardly concerns a man. I hope you will allow me a little space in your excellent journal to express my views upon it. I have been much interested by reading the correspondence on the subject of slender waists, and the means used for attaining them. Now, there can be no doubt that gentlemen admire those figures the most which have attained the greatest slenderness. I think there is no more deplorable sight than a large and clumsy waist. And as nature without assistance from art produces a really small waist, I think those mothers and schoolmistresses who insists on their daughters or pupils between the ages of ten and seventeen wearing well-made corsets, and having them tightly laced, confer upon the young ladies a great benefit, which tough they may not appreciate at the time, they when go out into society. Certainly some of your correspondents seem to have fallen into the hands of schoolmistresses thoroughly aware of the advantages of a good figure. A waist that two hands can easily clasp is certainly a marvel. I never had the good fortune to see such a one, yet one of your correspondents assures us that her daughter’s was no larger than that. NORA, too, says that her waist only measured thirteen inches when she left school; this seems to me be miraculously small. Most gentlemen do not think much about the means used for attaining a fashionable figure, and I should not have done so either if I had not heard it a good deal discussed in my family, where my sisters were never allowed to lace at all tightly, the consequence of which is, that now that they are grown up they have very clumsy figures, much to their regret; but it is too late to alter them now. As doctors seem to think that the dangers of tight-lacing have been much exaggerated, and as I know many ladies with very slender waist enjoying quite good health as their more strongly-built sisters. I would urge upon all who wish to have good figures not to be deterred by alarmist from devouring gradually to attain an elegant shape.“