Smyrna times., 1860-11-08
THE POETRY OF THE FOOT.

Fortunately diseases of the foot are not as
common as diseases of the teeth, but all those
who have suffered from their feet will be
anxious to see what an experienced and sue
cesstul chiropodIst like Dr. Zacharle has TO say
on the matter
We do not like foot too small for the height
any more than we like one TOO large. A small
foot Indlcateth coqucry. Cleopetra's foot |
must have been small and finely arched or she
would never have done us described by Enobar-
bus:
{" saw her once
Hop forty PAGES through the public Streets"
No woman ever did or would have done the !
like, but with the consciousness of preat ner. !
fccton in the feet
Anthony sends her pearls, saying:
" he hrm Roman to great Egypt sends
MS treasure OF an oyster; at whose feet,
10 mend the pretty present, will piece
ller Cpulent throne with kingdoms"
NO man alludes to a wunan's foot in any
way, if he loves her, unless it be beautiful.
HermIone, on the contrary, had firm, we'll.
sized foot:
"Oh! roya, piece,
There's magic in thy majesty"
is the exclamation of Leontes
woman will never enact the part of
statue, II conscious of i'll foot, unless her in.
'ehectnaiIty may have perverted her instincts
as IN The case OF Madame de Stael who at one
time personated in this way; and Taleyrand.
II we mistake not, offended her past retrieve,
by saying he knew who it was bp The pied de-
StaeL (PedestaI) terrible pun where the feet
/ aud ANGLES are ELISHA ped.
Desdcmona, Ophelia and Cordelia must have
had long slender feet, which agree rather with
sentiment than with magnCtsm or genius =
HlIGahua' on the contrary, had elegantly pro
Poruoned feet, WORTHY the chatle Diana her.
self. Then, too, Kate, danny Kate, the sharp
shrsw, the pretty vixen, had liltle arched
fOot, graceful and elastic he spring of ii
gers. When Petrubhio says:
" ny doth the world report that Kate doth
limp"
1t was delicate commentator of her foot :;
still more when he says:
; Did ever Dian so become grove,
As Kate this chamber with her princely gait -
Iehny son hath delicate eye tor a foot when
he represents Ida in this Wis:
She stood
Among her maders, higher oy the head,
Her back against pulsr, her fost on oue
Ot those tame leopards. kl;tca-uke he rolled
And paved about her sandal"
And again. describing the retnue Of the
princess Climbing the rock in pursuit of min
eraIs, he says:
Many light foot shone ike a ieUel set
/ In the dark craig"
Women with large iect never like to eliml
y hIlls.
. The sentiment of beauty is less in the sjE
than certain lIthencss and elasticity. IlSh
I as faWn, Fleet as the gre syhound,' With
{ step Ike stag are all pretty phrases, indl
eating the character OF the tJot, which ls lh
RdeX TO the whole woman.
he
= we fear very long dresses demoral.ze re it. Tn
= long robe certainly destroys i.s elasticity. w
like to see wOman's feet
;. " Beneath her pettlcost,
- - Like Int e nice sleGl IN and out,
"a As If they feared the light"
=. That was very pretty IN I. lover, who say
y his mistress bathing her feet in u brook an
~ wrote her,
" AZ " DO not fear 10 put thy feet,
~ Nuked IN the water sweet;
~ ~ Fear not, lizard, newt or trcg
:" VIII dare to come where thou hast trod. y
The French foot is mesgre, narrow an
" bOny, the Spanish foot is smuI. aud elegant
'e' curved, thanks to its Moorish b God, CORES
, pondIng with the CIstIllan pride" hiTh
NJ NJ the instep." The Arab foot proverbial for il
= high arch "a stream can run under the no
tI low of his foot" is a description of lis form
nc lOOt Vi lue I>COlCI 10 ldIPc anu lH'Ck-
10 that of the IRISH flat and squsre-the EnglIF
90 short and heshy. The American foot is apt
- be dsproportionately small
=, =" A foot should be arched, fairly rounded, an
~ its length proportiohed to the hclght Of the il
co dividual. 1t should have a del cate spring
up it, as # it did not quite belong to the cart
90 and touching it daintlly. If not disdainfuly.-
- The ankle should express tenderness, shou
In' be round and firm, and not too small.
"' al have hurt the wrist of my foot" said
beautiful cEIld, who never misplaced phras
- because words were given him only as he sto'
u in need of them. Nov THE pretty phrss
=, "wrst Of my foot" conveys the true idea Of
atr ankle. 1t should have the grace and flexlbi
;n i" ty of the wrist, to which it corresponds.