St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-07
SHRINE .EMUT, LADIES'!

A Chicago Girl NiO Resents the
Siurs Oil Garden City Feet, and De-
ciares the Boots OF the 81. aui
FemIuiues Are Just FOO HOrrid
For Anything.
A GLOBE reporter found yesterday let
ter with so indefinite signature that 1t
could not be returned to the writer. There
fore sufficient amount of it is published
so that it may be recognized. and by oBllng
at this Office il wall be restored to the writer
in as good condition as when the reporter
picked it up, or by sending the address of
the lady for whom it was intended it will
be forwarded to her:
My Dear Marcia: Do you remember how
awfully indignant we used to be over the
many unkinl references continually made to
the size OF the average Chicago girl rect!
How we never picked up newspaper out
what we were soon made to throw 1t aslue
with disgust at the TRADE. 1t seemed every
edition of our neighboring publications called
attention to the mOEStrOSitle5 las Cuey ache d
to term them). How we wished that we could
walk without feet, or that our mothers, like
the Heather Chinee," had bandaged, bound
and dwarfed them ii infancy. We never
started off ON a tour but what (realiZlng the
fact thai our feet must go aiong) we con-
tenplated claiming some other city as our
pace of residence If we could only trutl-
fully say I'VE are ST. Lousians," and have our
gowns made of sufficient length TO hide even
tue toe of that obnoxious member or our
body! If the name OF Chicago appeared after
that of pretty girl on hotel reyIster-eVen
were there crowd of US from other cities
surrounding her-we have been pained to
hear such exclamation as this, There goes
the Chicago damsel; knew her by her feet.
But now we are so accustomed TO being thus
siugl d out that we are perfectly Indifferent,
thereby verifying the old saying, Its
nothing when you get used to 1t.
After all the humiliation we have suffered, IS
it any wonder we are quick to notice any aud
all defects in regard TO the feet of our sisters
of other cities? How you would gloat in
wardly could you only go with me some lovely
afternoon. | would ask you to notice the
feet OF all the ladies, and tell me If there was
anything particularly striking about them.
We would walk down Third street through all
the shops, and We would even watch ladies as
they aight from their carriages, elegantly at
tired and strangely oblivious to the display OF
silk hosiery of the very latest shades. can
see your eyes open with astonishment while
you exclaim: us il always so! DO shabby
shoes predomnate? Yes. indeed; have
watched particularly for months, and
not one lady in fifty in this city
wears nicely-itting, well-poished boots.
large majority wear loose, run
er-at-the-hC i, uptidy-looking shoes; or
there may be few buttons OFF, or rip up
the back. Anyway, untidy feet are as much
characteristic of the ladies of this city as
large ones are of Chicago Between you and
me. if were only man (and what woman
has not expressed the wish at some period of
her lifeD would open up shoe backing par
lors for ladies. What bonanza it would be
If all who needed it would patronize me.
But abandon the project as impractcable
f, r ,he above reason. This much do know.
that any st. Paul editor who ever refers 10
the huge dimensions of the Chicago girls
feet ought to meet with the fate of the
doomed anarchists. But see to what i'm
lnense proportions my letter is growing. l
hope to lie regaled with all the choice bits Of
gossip soon; it is food for my weary brain
while sojourning among strangers. Truly
your friend. ANNA.
St. Paul, Nov. 6.