Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-12-02
FAMOUS FEET.
SOMETHING ABOUT PROMINENT CARSON HOOPS
a BooTeLACKs MATURE VIEWS

| The Sunday Ch,o".cie contains two col
| ann sketch of the feet of celebrated people.
| The pictures are In outline and were secured
| from the diagrams used by the different Shoe
| makers of San Francisco. They look as if
made by setting the foot fat down on a piece
| OF paper and drawing the outlines around 1t
| with a pencil. The biggest foot in the collec-
ton is that of George W. Smiley, and nest
ling alongside of it is the delicate lower ter
minus of Alice Oates. Governor Stanford 3
foot looks like the model of a fat car and
about the same size at each end.
Mrs. Grants foot and that of Mrs Mark
Hopkins are side by side and Mrs Grants is
decidedly the best shaped. Mrs. James Fair
and Mrs John Mackey are also paired Mrs,
Mackeys foot is small and we'll shaped and SO
is Mrs. Ears. except there are indications of
bunion near the big toe of the right foot. 1t
looks as if the artist had lost some money
through point from Uncle Jimmy and
got even by adding little to the size Of that
bunion. In this city the day oar keeper of
the Ormsby House has the smallest foot of
any man in town and Jewett Adams, the
Lieutenant Governor, the most extensive of
any man OF prominence. Farmer Treadway
has colossal hoof, but symmetrical withal. U.
) District Attorney Varian has & foot as net
as womans, and so has Capt. Joe, the
Washoe Chief. The biggest foot on earth
belongs to Big Mouth Charley" an Indian
from Walker River. 1t is fully eighteen
lnces long and growing year by year Some
Of the Carson ladies have remarkably pretty
feet, and don't mind showing them during a
spell of weather like the present. Some take |
pains to display them on q clear day, but those |
who take the most pains to exhibit their feet !
have the biggest and ugliest kind and don't |
know it. Such women are invariably exposing |
badly laced CATERS, wrinkled stockings and i'm
nense shoes. The rare art of showing pretty
DOT as if by merest accident is known to few
women, and those who know how to keep the
ecret to themselves. There ia something
about pretty foot well displayed
md men with an eye to the beauties of form
will invariably allow their glance to linger on
UGH panorama. There are thorns, however,
ven to spectacular roses, and it is seldom
hat pretty foot and ankle flashes in sight
ut that some old charcoal wagon or butchers
eivery cart comes along and shuts out the
how
A BOOT BLACK yIswS.
A colored boot black IN street barber
hop was interviewed on the subject of feet.
cit takes heap 'er time sab and biackin'
} git over Charley Bicknell's boots, and
Iarris's amt no ciuderellas, You hear me. !
lacked Henry Ward Beecher's hen he was c
eah and dem shoes was de boss allmose | t
tinted dead away when | saw em sab. Dey
as like de collins shipped to Bndie. Tnfy's
mt half as big as you'd expect sab, ana deys
eat in shape. | hates to shine de brogans Of q
ranchers. They come in with mud on EN- :,
l inch thick and it takes a good half hour to b
polish on EN-. Two bits is dirt cheap .
r such work. De only bad quarter got
as from preacher. For de Lord boss It's
fact. 1t was lead clean through felt 80 Of
ID that CUB up my pew III church. Here
mas Seely Comstock lawyer came in with
ry dirty boots and the darkey, heaving a
rrible sigh, opened fresh bottle of black Il.
9 and fell upon the mountains of leather
tn all the strength at his command as he
'rked. '1f l hadn't friends ! hate to n
we I'd suicide, for de Lord would. DO
II STnRRV CnTTS1y i no !