The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-10-06
Suffering to De Beautiful.


While savages cut the nose, ears, lips
and other parts of the frame into various
conventional designs, it is reserved for
civi!ica.iou-C Chinese, European and
American-to attack the really useful
organs THIS, 8 savage may chop off
his little finger by way of proving that
be has come to years of discretion. as
the Mandarins did, or he may.have his
front teeth knocked out for the same pur.
pose, as is the manner Of the Murri. But
he will not ruin his chest or deform his
feet. Only people who do not need to
walk or run much wear tight boots and
cultivate slender waists, though the
practice descends from owners Of carri-
ages to the middle and lower classes.
Mr.. Flower (author Of book to which
this article refcrs) gives ghasty wood
cuts of the Chinese woman's foot and OF
its skeleton.
During the first year of the binding
the pain is 30 intense that the sufferer
can do nothing but lie and cry and
moan. For about two years the foot
aches continually. Some of the toes
usually come off with the bandares.
which enables the fortunate patient to
wear smaller shoe than would otherwise
have been possible. The Chinese wo.
mans foot is almost exactly like drawing
OF Parisian lady's foot in shoe which
is reprinted from an advertisement in an
English paper with wide circulation
among women. Apparently Parsian
shoemakers wish English ladies to live
up to Chinese ideas. The toes of the
golden lily" or deforhed Chinese foot,
touch the ground between the great toe
and the heel. The fashionable length
is between three and a half and four
inches.
But probably the Chinese do not tight
lace. This is the greatest, most perma-
nent and most mischievcus of modern
fashiopable .deformities. a glance at
the waist Of the Venus so Incorrectly
attributed to the chisel of the athlete
Milo, and at the waist Of any lady in q
picture of the fashions, will show that
the modern woman's internal economy
must be hopelessly disarranged. The
shape of the skeleton is actually and
absolutely reversed. The ribs of the
human frame are narrow at the top, and
expand downward. The ribs in the
skeleton of tight.Iaced woman are wide
at the top, and contract as they descend.
Probably even more misery is caused by
the absurdly contracted waist than by
the ridiculous pointed and high.heeied
boot. But all classes suffer from 'the
cruel and extreme torture of the boot"
i'll the modern conventional shape
Tight lacing, after all, only affects wo.
! men who want TO be fashionable. If
| we could only return TO the round toed
| shoon of Henro VIII! Lord Palmerston
wore boots made on. natural principles,
and he was not quite social failure
| London Daiiy Ne,1s.
GIRLS, DON'T GET MARR1ED.-Girls.
don't be in hurry to get married. If
you are but sixteen, don't allow such an
idea to get into your head for at least
four years. Don't even run the risk
of it by permitting any young man to
get as far as the. proposing point. Fight
hun OIL, and make him wait or 60 away
to somebody who is ready. Don't live
under the impression that you must ac-
ccpt the first love.sick youth who propo.
ses. Be patient, deliberate and sagacious
There is world of happiness for You
between sixteen and twenty. The world
would be dreary old waste if it were
not for the sweet faces of young girls
wit: their piquant sayings and melting
smiles. Your father has bought you q
piano, and you have learned to play,
after many long and wearisome lessons.
Don't spoil all by getting married, for
after that you won't have much use for
your piano. After you have reached
twenty il would be we'll 10 consider the
matrimonial problem with some serious
ness.
= The reigning monarch of Abyssinia