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SIR.--I have read with much interest the remarks of some of your correspondents on corset discipline. I agree with those who advocate a trim waist and neatly-gloved hands. If to these adjuncts of dress dainty high-heeled boots are added, the effect of a pretty girl is simply charming. Now, sir, I am sure if you would see me you would endorse what I have said. I am a young lady who is called by her friends a very pretty one. My figure is extremely slender, my waist, under the power of the stay lace, measures seventeen inches. I wear delicate kid boots with heels four and a half inches. My heels are exceptionally soft, and as white as snow, the size of my gloves five and a half. I wear the most perfect fitting thin French kids, and prefer the palest tints.

Six months ago I married a gentleman who was a widower. Soon after my marriage the thought struck me, why should not my stepson have some of the advantages which improved me? He was a most unwilling subject, but I forced him to wear highheeled boots, and, with my maid's help, laced him into a tight, heavily-steeled corset, drawing it tighter every day. I frequently order him to wear very tight kid gloves, and these I fasten on with leather straps. buckled as firmly as possible round his wrists. If he soils the kid I punish him by some tingling visitations of my gloved palms across has cheeks, or, if the culprit deserves severer correction, by some smart cuts on his hands with my riding whip. He is a youth of eighteen, and is rapidly being changed from a rough, unmannerly lout into a docile, obedient youth.

I make him attend on me, and am teaching him how to behave in a young lady's presence. At first he could hardly button my gloves without tearing them, and I had to make him practice on old soiled kids. Now he can fasten a new pair of tight gloves without injuring them.

I certainly am a strong advocate for corset discipline and its smart surroundings, not only in the case of girls, but for their brothers also. I hope this long letter can find a space in your nice paper.--Yours truly, TRIM WAIST. from Trim Waist.

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CORSET DISCIPLINE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

SIR.--I have read with much interest the remarks of some of your correspondents on corset discipline. I agree with those who advocate a trim waist and neatly-gloved hands. If to these adjuncts of dress dainty high-heeled boots are added, the effect of a pretty girl is simply charming. Now, sir, I am sure if you would see me you would endorse what I have said. I am a young lady who is called by her friends a very pretty one. My figure is extremely slender, my waist, under the power of the stay lace, measures seventeen inches. I wear delicate kid boots with heels four and a half inches. My heels are exceptionally soft, and as white as snow, the size of my gloves five and a half. I wear the most perfect fitting thin French kids, and prefer the palest tints.

Six months ago I married a gentleman who was a widower. Soon after my marriage the thought struck me, why should not my stepson have some of the advantages which improved me? He was a most unwilling subject, but I forced him to wear highheeled boots, and, with my maid's help, laced him into a tight, heavily-steeled corset, drawing it tighter every day. I frequently order him to wear very tight kid gloves, and these I fasten on with leather straps. buckled as firmly as possible round his wrists. If he soils the kid I punish him by some tingling visitations of my gloved palms across has cheeks, or, if the culprit deserves severer correction, by some smart cuts on his hands with my riding whip. He is a youth of eighteen, and is rapidly being changed from a rough, unmannerly lout into a docile, obedient youth.

I make him attend on me, and am teaching him how to behave in a young lady's presence. At first he could hardly button my gloves without tearing them, and I had to make him practice on old soiled kids. Now he can fasten a new pair of tight gloves without injuring them.

I certainly am a strong advocate for corset discipline and its smart surroundings, not only in the case of girls, but for their brothers also. I hope this long letter can find a space in your nice paper.--Yours truly, TRIM WAIST.