For the Liberated Women; Those Valiant Ones Who Will Give Up the Binding Corset. More and More Women Are Doffing Their Stays – But It Still Takes High Courage to Join Their Ranks.The receipt of several letters asking The Times to give some designs suitable for making up gowns to be worn without corsets has suggested the article here presented. The leaven is working among women: Many have discarded them, many more, mothers, who feel that it is too late for them to change, are persuading their growing daughters to omit their adoption. … Human nature is weak, very weak, when it comes to the question of personal appearance, and having for generations adopted the standard of a tapering waist as a mark of feminine beauty of figure, it is going to take character, perseverance, religion even to counteract this. …”One of the most pathetic speeches that I have listened to in a long time”, said a woman recently, “was that made by a friend to me the other day. We were discussing hygienic dress and the use of disuse of corsets. I remarked casually and tritely that it took a good deal of moral courage to give them up. ‘Moral courage!’ she repeated, ‘it takes wrestling with the Lord. There is no plea I have made oftener of my Heavenly Father than that He would give me strength to persevere in this thing’”.