The daily gazette., 1877-05-28
BOOTS AND BEAUTY.
HOW ENGLISH WOMEN GET ROSY
4 CHEEKS FROM THEIR SHOES.

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/ III. Aubrijet, Frenchman, has writer
a book on the beauty Of English women
and the Chicago Times, in allusion to biz
observations, acknowledgements: ~ IA
The care which Is taken of woman's
feet has much 10 do with her health, and
the boot, which, in France, is constructed
with no preference to either health or the
feet, is made in England, expressly fol
both. In France the question is, how
small a boot can wear? In England
/ the foot is laid on paper, the outline is
taken, the instep, the ankle and the lee
accurately measured; and the result il
that the French beauty is raised two
inches above her natural height, her feet
are thrown forward against the pinchine
upper, and she dances badly and cannot
walk at all; while the English woman
goes out upon the grass in broado soles
and low heels, is quite unconscious that
She has boots on and absorbs beauty
making juices into her blood. The in,
terior. construction of the foot-the num-
Der of separate little bones Joined only
by their yielding cushions Of cartilage
insures elasticity, which so delighted the
Frenchman, and which cannot be taken
away, except by tightness in the material
for encasing the foot. In the cities OF
Spain, where the narrow, high heel has
been copied from Paris, there is very lit
tie beautiful dancing, In the. villages
where the girls go barefooted half of the
year, the luxurious grace Of the waltz
has been noted, and it is attributed to
that happy poverty which has neither
fiattened the foot In the middle by giving
burdens to be carried in girlhood (the
cause Of fiat feet among the women in
Germany, Holland, Sweden, Russia and
the bOurge0ise of France) . nor deformed
the great toe and paralyzed the astralar-
gus by the fashionable, device of satin
slippers. Bertha Won Hillern's feet are
as perfect in proportion as those of the
Greek statues, and as she is not small,
her feet would neither illustrate English
poetry nor satisfy the vulgar popular
fashion. But they complete the perfect
symmetry of herolithe and supple frame !;
they perform just the function for which
feet arr, made-they carry their load eas-
iiy, gracefully and, without fatigue. 7She
would as soon think of cramping them
IN tight boots as Budd Doble to running
Goldsmith Maid with shoes which trans
formed her gait into a stagger. Women
who get shoes to fit them are good walk
ers; women who are good walkers are
healthier than those who prefer to rent
their pedal phalanges to the expensive
bootmaker as advertisements of their
folly and his art; and -women-wh are
good walkers and healthy have a beauty
which is more enduring than any that
can be acquired by cosmetics, A thick
soled, low-heeled, perfectly comfortable
pair of boots is better investment than
several vials of the most poisonous rouge
and dozen boxes of powdered arsenic.
In the beautiful natural foot, a line drawn
from the centre of the great toe to the
middle of the heel is perfectly straight.
When it is not, the boot, instead of pro
health and prolonging the tints
OF beauty in the complexion, is the au-
thor of corns and bunions, and of that
refinement of excruciationLin-gr growing
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