Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-11-07

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perfection in the feet. s.-..--,
Anthony sends her pearls, saying:
eThe firm Roman TO great Egypt sends
This treasure of an oyster; at whose feet,
To mend the petty present, will piece
Her opulent throne with kingdoms"
No man alludes to womans foot in any
way if he loves her, unless it be beautiful.
Hermione, on the contrary, had firm,
well proportioned foot, betokening her maj
esty. When she enacts the statue scene
we are sure she had we'll sized foot
sOhl royal piece,
There's magic in thy majesty"
is she explanation of Leontes.
A woman will never enact the part of a
statue if conscious of an i'll foot, unless
her intellectually may have prevented her
instincts, as in the case Of Madame de Stael,
who at one time personated in this way;
and Tallayrand, if we mistake not, offended
her past retrieve, by saying that he knew
who it was blythe pesdestal (pedestal,) ter
rible pun, where the feet and ankle are i'll
shaped.
Desdemona, Ophelia and Cornelia must
have had long slender feet which go more
with sentiment than with magnetism or ge-
MUS. Miranda, on the contrary, had ele-
gantly proportioned feet, worthy the chaste
Dina herself. Then, too, Kate, dainty Kate,
the sharp shrewd, the pretty vixen, had
little arch foot, graceful and elastic as the
spring of tiger. When Petruchio says:
"why does the world report that Kate doth limpi'
it was delicate commendation of her foot;
still more when he says:
'cDid Diana ever so become grove
As Kate this chamber with her princely gait
Tennyson hath delicate eye for foot
when he represents Ida in this wise:
Among her maidens, higher by the head,
Her hack against a pillar, her foot on one
of those tame leOpards. Kitten like he rolled
And paved about her sandal"
And again, describing the retinue of the
princess climbing the rocks in pursuit of
mineral, he says;
''Nany light foot shOne like jewelset
In the dark crag-"
Women with large feet never like to
climb the hills.
The sentiment of beauty is less in the
size than a certain litheness and lastieity.
"Light as fawn," "Fleet as the greyhound" /"
with a step like a stag" are all pretty
phrases, indicating the character Of the
foot, which is the index to the whole wo-
man.
Dress has great effect upon the foot,
and we fear very long dresses demoralize it.
The long robe certainly destroys its elactic-
ity. We like to see the foot
oBeneath the pettieoats,
Peep out like little mice,
Who shun the light"
This was very pretty in lover who saw
his mistress bathing her feet in the brook,
and wrote to her:
"Do not fear to put thy feet
Naked in the water sweet;
Fear not lizard newt or toad
Win dare to come where thou hast trodi'
The French foot is meagre, narrow and
bony; the Spanish small and elegantly
curved, thanks to its Moorish blood, cores
ponding with Castilina pride-"high in the
instep." The Arab foot is proverbial for
its high arch; "a stream can run under the
hollow of his foot" it is description of its
form. The foot of the Scotch is large and
thick-that of the Irish fiat and square
the English short and fieshy. The Ameri-
can foot is apt to be disproportionately
small.
A foot should be arched, fairly rounded,
and its length proportioned to the height of
the individual 1t should have delicate
spring to il as if it did not quite belong to
earth, and touched it daintily, if not dis
dainfully. The ankle should express ten
derness-should be round and firm, and
not too small.
81 have hurt the wrist of my foot" said
a beautiful child, who never misplaced
phrase, because words were given him only
as he stood in need of them. Now this
pretty phrase, "wrist of my foot" conveys
the true idea of an ankle. 1t should have
the grace and f1exibility of awrist, to which
it corresponds.
Touching this subject we have often tho't
it unscemingly when beautiful women go to
be newly sandalled, and we see them place
their foot so composedly on the knee of the
artisan, with the white covering nesting
away amid frills and embroidery. We were
more convinced of this unseemliness when
we read the following lines, sent to the
house, together with pair of delicate gait
ers from one of the fashionable shoe stores. /
little glove stirs up my heart as tides stir up the ocean,
And snow white muslin, when it fits wakes many curl
notion.
All of lady 6xins thrill my feelings as they'd orter
But little female gaiter boots DEATH nothing sho
ter