E. E. writes—“Reading so much about Tight-Lacing in the columns of your ’Conversation,’ I take the liberty of writing to give you my opinion upon the subject, and this I have been induced to do through reading to letters, both from gentlemen, one styling himself T.F., and the other AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN. To begin with, I must tell you that I, the daughter of a professional man, abhor tight-lacing, and that I pity and despise women who, by a worse than silly argument, draw down upon our whole sex in general the pity and contempt of men, for no man could glance through the part of your Magazine devoted to the subject of tight-lacing without being horrified as well as disgusted at the little common sense shown in the arguments by women. There are men who class all women alike, and so the whole sex may be stigmatized by the nonsensical buzzing of this (I hope I may say) small swarm of would-be wasps. I must now tell you that my waist by nature is small, at least it is considered so by my friends, but then it is no less than twenty inches; that will be thought tremendous by my friends the would-be wasps, and no doubt is so when classed with their slender proportion of from twelve to fourteen inches.