ELLEN says—“Have the correspondents on Tight-Lacing remembered that beauty claims to consist in the generally correct proportions of the entire figure ratchet than in any individual part of it? It is not whether the waist comes within such and such a limit, but what it is relatively to the height and other portions of the figure. The little lady with very little waist recognizes this when she says that though the latter measures only twelve inches in circumference, no one notices it a small, because she is of diminutive stature. It would appear to be very small notwithstanding, and certainly sounds very like a fairy tale. All honour to the devoted wife who, in her zeal to appear beautifully less in her husband’s eyes, performed such a feat of literal self-sacrifice! who reduced hers, she tells us, by nine inches, thus testing the power of behind of the reader, as well as her own powers of endurance. It the correctness of the taste admits of a doubt, at least some tribute may be paid to the amiableness of the motive.