Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1870-12-09
EaigHa-EEeelcG Boots.

An English journal says: Zone Of the
most detestable, injurious, and generally
abominable fashions now in sogue among
ladies is unquestionably the wearing of high
heeled boots The consequences necessari-
| ly resulting from constant using of boots
made on such a principle are of the gravest
and most serious description. The repre-
sentative Briton's foot is deformed sufficient
ly in numerous other ways; to see foot
nowadays properly formed, and retaining
to adolescence its original and natural shape,
is to see the rarest of curiostics and, this
being an incontrovertiblc truth, it will east
ly be conceived that we ought not systemat-
/ ically to set ourselves to work to distort our
/ feet by any means more adventitieus than
can be helped, or by the wearing Of that
which can be most beneicially and comlor-
tably dispensed with Yet this is precisely
what fashionable ladies have been and are
doing. Nothing but boots with the highest
possible heels, and the greatest possible con-
fractions elsewhere, can be worn by those Of
the female sex who consider themselves and
wish to be considered fashionable; nothing
could hardly be more deleterious in every
respect. OF course graceful carriage and
walk are rendered totally impossible; the
ex2crable assumption of the peculiar bend
classically called the 'Grecian,' becomes no
longer an assumption, but necessity and
no small amount of personal discomfort and
pain is inevitably caused to the probably
fair, but certainly mistaken, wearers of these
shockingl y-made boots. The shape of the
foot is soon destroyed, and the improper and
unnatural elevation of the heel, of necessity,
causes the other parts Of the foot-for in
stance, the instep, the arch (to avoid tech
nicalities,) and the approaches to the toes
to suffer great distortion, and dilninishes
their natural strength and working powers
And the mischief does not stop here. Those
bones Of the feet which act coDjunctively
with the higher par of the leg, which run
up to the calf, ETC., must also suffer and it
would be well if the votaries of these high
heeled boots would bear in remembrance
that, while they are priding themselves ON
the graceful attitude in which they are
launched into the air. they are also wearing
away and destroying that elegant contour Of
ankle, that incomp arably-rounded graceful
ness of calf, which properly they ought not
to prize, nor can prize. too highly. And
the mischief does not stop even here. Their
whole figure their complete tout-easenahc Of
appearance, is to a greater or lesser extent
married, spoiled, and oblitaratcd.'''
TEae Church sss' the Strangers
The HillsboFo' IN. c. Recorder of 3Oth
utlmo has a very interesting report Of the
address of DIR. Deems, in Greensboro in
relation to his church in New York-tha
Church of the Strangers" The following
Is all extract:
Ii Will be interesting, know, to this au
dlence, to hear Of the delicate manner in
which Cornelius Vanderbilt of New York
lnade me present OF this elegant church.
Ills father and mine were old friends He
loves my wife, and love both Of the ladies'.
One night, l went over and found Mr..
Vanderbilt and Daniel Drew together. Mr..
DEew talked awhile with me, and then Mr.
Vanderbilt asked me some questions. ASH
get up to go, Ir. Vanderbilt followed me
to the door. Come hsre tomorrow night
said he. :Can't come" said I
"Why not !"
Give got to attend a prayer meeting.
"Colne Thursday night, then?'
Cant. Got to marry a couple"
Friday night?"
Cant. Got to meet some friends from
| the South
| 'Cems when you can them said he
Sunday night went. Mr.. ", had
company. l sat awhile and said, L thought
| you wanted to see me Commodore I will
hayssto go now" He followed me to the
door aud asked NE il a private room We
sat down BY 8 table. After asking me a
few questions was in hopes no wanted me
to talk with him Oh religion, as / was the
only minister he permitted to talk with BIN
GA that subject he said:
Il will give you that church,
1t nearly jerked me from my seat!
II will give you that church," repeated
| he
Said IT, looking him in the face, 'sMr.
Vanderbilt, wouldn't be any men's chap
lain on the face Of the earth
He replied, 'I've got no use for chap
lain"
But you ought to have," said 1.
Il will give you that church." said he
NH. aHuefDiIt, Saiu L, you maven
got money enough to make me take my guns
off from bearing on any sinner who pokes
his head above the breastworks''
"That's what like you for,'' said he.
"Well," said I, ''if you will settle the
church Oh nlc to use Internationally it's all
right
II will do it," he said.
So the church is settled on me during my
Lifetime and at my death it passes into the
hands of residuary trustees whom I'll ap-
point when get back to continue en- the
same basis as the "Church Of the Stran.
gers"
Common Road locomotive.
A locomotive for ordinary roads is in
operation at Leith, Scotland, which, by its
peculiar construction, is said to have salts
factorily solved the question Of steam trac-
ton on common roads. The wheel and its
tire consist Of broad iron tire with narrow
hanges, upon which is placed ring of soft
vulcanized India-rubber, of about twelve
inches wide and five inches thick, which
thus surrounds the iron tire, and is kept in