a Belt or Girdle, and a Girdle in the days of the First Geography Book was the principal (if not the only) garment of a well dressed person.

    Today, however, the Girdle is no longer accepted as a complete costume.

    No modern Costumer would countenance such a “model,” it would be too easy to copy and consequently unprofitable.

    Even the “Knee-plus-ultra” of Newport or Palm Beach Society would hesitate to pose for the Sunday Supplement Photographer in a one-piece Bathing Girdle.

    You might explore the World of Dress, from the Land of the Midnight Follies to the Uttermost parts of Greenwich Village and find nothing exactly like it.

    It is on its way, to be sure, but it will never be fashionable until—

     The two extremes of décolleté

      Of Ballroom and of Bathing Beach

     Here meet in a bewildering way

      And mingle all the charms of each.

    Why, then, in this up-to-date Geography Book, should we depict the Giddy Globe in an obsolete hoop skirt of imaginary Zones?

    In striving to answer the question, we have hit upon a pleasing compromise.

    At least it is up-to-date.

    A. and E. are the two extremities of the Giddy Globe, which are quite bare.

    They correspond to the Frigid Zones.

    C. is the Corset, which being hot and uncomfortable corresponds to the Torrid.

    D. is—that is to say are——*

    * Pardon us for interrupting—but

    we thought this was to be a

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