The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-06-06
BOOTS AND BEAUTY.
How English Women Get Rosy
Cheeks From Eheir ShOes.-.
Comments Oh "a Timely
Topic.

NJ. Aubrijet, Frenchman, has written
a book on beauty of Englishwomen, and
the Chicago Times, in an illusion to his
| observations, makes these editorial re-
marks:
The care which is taken of women's
feet has much to do with her health, and
the boot, which, in France, Is constructed
with no preference to either health or the
foot is made in England expressly for
both In France the question IL, "how
small a boot can | wear?' In England
the foot is laid on paper, the outline
taken, the instep, the ankle and the lee
accurately measured; ami the result is
that the French beauty is raised two
inches above her natural height, her feet
are thrown forward against the pInching
upper, and she dances badly and cannot
walk at all while the EngIishwoman
goes out upon the grass in broad soles and
low heels, is quite unconscious that she
has boots on, and absorbs beauty making
juices into her blood The interior con
struction of the foot-the numbers of
separate little bones joined only by their
yielding cushions of cartilage-injures
elasticity which so delighted the French
man, and which cannot be taken away
except by tightness in the material
used for encasing the foot. In the cities
of Spain where the narrow, high
heel has been copied from Paris,
there is very little beautiful dancing.
In the villages where the girls 90 bare
footed half the year, the luxurious
grace of the waltz has been noted, and it
is attributed to that happy poverty which
has neither fattened the foot in the mid
die by giving burdens to be carried in
girlhood (the cause of fiat feet among
the women in Germany, Holland, Swe-
den, Russia, and the bourgeoise of
France nor deformed the great toe and
paralyzed the astralagus by the fashiona
bic device of satin slippers. Bertha Won
Hiliern's feet are as perfect in proportion
as those of the Greek statues, and as she
is not small, her feet would neither illus
trate English poetry nor satisfy the
vulgar's popular fashion. But they
complete the perfect symmetry Of her
1.-THE and supple frame; they perform
just the function for which feet are made
they carry their load easily, gracefully
and without fatigue. She would as soon
think Of crAmping them in tight boots as
Budd Doble to running Goldsmith Maid
with shoes which transform her gait into
stagger. Women who get shoes to fit
them are good walkers women who are
good walkers are healthier than those
who prefer to rent their pedal phalanges
to the expensive bootmaker as advertise
ments of their folly and his art; and
women who are good walkers and healthy
have a beauty which is more enduring
than anv that can be acquired by cos
metics. A thick-sole1, low-heeled, per-
fectly comfortable pair of boots is bet
ter investment than several walls of the
most poisonous rouge and dozen boxes
of powdered arsenic. In the beautiful
natural foot, line drawn from the
center of the great toe to the middle Of
the heel is perfectly straight. When it
is not the boot, instead of protecting
health and prolonging the tints of beauty
in the complexion, is the author of corns
and bunions, and of that refinement Of
excrutiation-in-gr growing nail