The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-06-18
BEAUTY IN THE FOOT.
Not an Important Matter i'm the
Make Up of a Perfect
Woman.
Philadelphia Inquirer.

Philadelphia Inquirer.
The girl ofthe period, genera usly
says prominent chiropodist, ''is
devoting herself more and more to the
study of her foot. She has found out
that this instrument is capable of al
most as much development for the
strength and beauty Greatly symony-
nous terms as her hand. She knows
that the splendid exercise of piano
playing, in which each finger and
every muscle of the hand, wrist and
arm is developed to the greatest state
of elasticity and to beauty's own
moulding contains the very hint she
wants to follow in the development of
the foot. No, she is not going to
play the piano with her feet, but she
she is going through lot of gym.
nastic exercises with them. She sits
on the bed every morning working
her toes, then she walks around the
room on her bare toes, and straight
ening out her ankle, like ballet girl,
with every step. She finds at first
that she Can hardly raise herself OF
the balls Of her feet and walk on them.
Presently that becomes easy. In
week or so the exercise will accom-
plish that much. Then she grows
able to lift herself off even the balls of
her feet on TO the very toes alone for
moments at q time. Then she sits
down on the bed and gives them
lighter exercise, just by working them
uutil they will move independently of
each other. At first she has to pull
them with her hands as far as possible
in all different directions, just as the
pianist practices his hands on the
tecnnion. They are very awkward at
first, just as the fingers would have
been if not praetieed, and, indeed, as
many peoples fingers are. She is no
longer a victim to the foolish pre-
JUDGE against spreading her foot out
on the floor. She is no longer a vic.
tim of the illusion to the eye, ignorant
of art, that littleness is beauty. She
NO longer desires set of cramped toes,
but spreads them out ON the door and
tries to make them assume the square :.
beautiful proportions of the baby's
sweet foot.
"In fact, the foot development
craze with fashionable, progressive
girl of the period may be called the
baby foot craze. These exercises of
the foot and toes make them able to
spring twice as far off their feet. She
is doin5 just the reverse of what she
used to do when she fought with her
because her shoes were
not tight enough. She is now con-
stantly fighting with him to get them
broader at the toes, and many a girl
who is proud of her new, sensible,
idea will hold the toe of a
broad shoe in view for you in the
street car, at home and elsewhere.
MANY jokes are cracked on the
corn doctors in the papers, but we
always advise people to wear any
thing but pointed shoes. The foot
and toe should have all the freedom
Of the hand and fingers. A great
many girls also ask US for advice
about curing pigeon-toes. 1t lisa cur
ious thing that many girls live all
their lives and are laughed at by the
boys for walking pigeon-toed, when
they never notice that they walk diff
ferently from other people. But
those who have it can correct it to a
great extent by practice. l advised
several young ladies in a practice
which they say has greatly improved
them. That is to get before mirror
in their dressing rooms and walk to-
ward it, stepping high and extending
the leg straight out toward the glass
at every step. They thus find when
The foot lights how it crosses in upon
the vertical plane which the other foot
must reverse, for its movements.
They thus see how the legs are not
hinged properly, and learn to move =
hem in parallel planes. Stepping
forward and backward toward the
mirror will frequently correct pigeon
.oed walking"