Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-05
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Atlantic City letter: Any body who was
at all anxious to see old Neptune in one of
his vexed moods had only to be here to-
day. The tempest-t tossed pillows, accom-
panied by driving rain-storm, knocked
the bathers about like so many corks..
How anyone can enjoy surf-bathing in
shower Of rain and sea which compelled
all hands to hug the beach closely to pre-
vent accident is mystery. Bathings has
its pecuIiarities and oddities, all of which
have been hit of by critical correspond
ents. They have made fun of the female
bathing suits, the actions of the he and
she CHANDELIERS in the surf, but no Peeping
Tom has ventured to turn his pen upon
the subject of feet.
The seacoast is the place to find these
pedal curiosities in all sizes, colors, and
conditions of servituGe. A foot, or rather
pair of feet, as heJ emerge from bath
house, Innocent of any covering except
that given by nature, are sight calculated
nine times out of ten to drive corn doc
tor TO distraction and suicide. II the Amer
lean shoemakers have one dreadful sin to
answer for it is the deformity of the Amer
lean foot. 1t is fun for an anatomist to
take seat in front of big bath house and
watch the procession of feet that flow to the
sea and back again to the bath house.
He will discover in the first place
that with very few exceptions the Ameri-
can feminine leg and ankle are trinity
built. But such fee! Here is a young
girl-a hoydeaish creature, with unconfned
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rosy cheeks and glittering teeth. Her
ankles are well rounded, but her pedal ex-
trsmities reveal the terturing eff ects of
fashionable shoemaking. Her big toes
have large collosities on the joints and are
pushed away over at an angle towards
their more diminutive brothers. As a con-
sequence of this displacement the adjoin-
ing toes are crowded together and
bumped up. Naturally corns decorate the
elevated joints. On the sides of each
of her small toes-which, by the way have
been so squeezed in their leather incase-
ment that the poor toe nails have been
crowded to the wall and have ceased to be
is another corn. The chances are that
there are similar excrescences on the soles
of her feet. Following this maiden comes
a very bshemoth of matronhood with
sturdy limbs like inverted old fashioned
churns. The crowd of loungers, quick to
seize on and ridicule personal peculi-
arities, at once dub her Jumbo She
has. on a matured scale, the same
pedal malformations visible in the
"trotters'' of the girl. Then, with
a rush and jump, issues a young
fellow full of muscular energy. Il is easy
to see by his distorted feet that he buys
$3.50 CATERS, ready-made. Close on his
heels is an old fellow whose extremities
are curiosities emphatically. He may
have had nails on his big toes at some
time in the dim past, but there is nothing
left to show for them but shaggy, wrinkled-
up Jumps of horn.
And so the stream flows on. Inter
mingled with the barefoot host is a dis
Greet mixture of femininity, which con-
ceals any physical deformities
beneath second-best stockings, which
are generally very dark colored.
When the maiden comes forth from the
dressing room friZzled and furbelowed she
is seen to be supported on the French heel,
shaped like the hammer-head of the shark
of that name. The fat woman likewise
dons ty-looking slippers with heels like
stills. AS the visitor sits and gazes at the
storm tossed ocean, and listens to the muir
muir of the bathing ticket ''barker" and the
man, and then goes in the rain
TO the depot and sees the pile of trunks and
the long train of people, he figures no
what Atlantic City will look like
Il it has about three days of such rain
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