The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-27


though a southerner will take his oath on
it that Mrs. Willie Allen who danced
the minuet at the Colonial ball in Rich
mond this year wore No. / slippers,
last AA, on her twinkling feet.
But then she was Virginian,
born and bred. Other women certainly
have big feet. 1t is no longer secret that
Mrs. Cleveland Wore No. 5 walking shoes
and had her slippers made only half size
smaller. Mrs. Harrison's foot is short
and plump. She can easily wear No. IS but
she prefers longer boot and usually has
them made half a size longer and last mar
rover. She gets all her shoes made in
Washington and little while ago she had
pair of bronze slippers mace at down
town store for which she insisted on hav-
ing heels hardly one inch high. She ar
eued that woman who stood as constantly
as she was forced to do should meyer be on
the stilJs of ballet dancer. l notice that
she wears them constantly at her recep-
lions. But she is about the only one here
who shows an atom of sense in the matter
and four fifths of the women one sees
going from carriages crutch and mince
alongs quirming with pain if their feet touch
a pebble. The feet look all right when
they peep from under a ball dress but
1t would make Anthony Comstock turn in
his grave TO see them when they make
their pilgrimage from coupe to door, Mrs.
Hawley. the wife of Senator Joseph d.
Hawley. 1t is not one of the China footed
kind She is an English woman and she
wears shoes in which she can comfortably
walk when making her calls which she usu-
ally makes afoOt. Mrs. Senator DAVIS is ano-
Their woman who encaSeS a shapely foot in a
sensible boot. Lady Pauncefote and her
daughters are also generous in the matter
OF loot gear and like most English women
they have large feet. The young Mortons,
i've of them, always wears broadheeled
shoes Which come very little above the
ankle aud which are laced instead of but
toned. 1t is at treat to see them walk
They 'do" the mile between their fathers
house and the riding school every morning
about ten, their brown habits gathered
well in hand and all from the six-year old
Mary to Miss Edith keep steady even
gait which they do not vary the whole
distance. 1t IS a delectable fad, this Of big
feet and large shoes but half the people
who claim they have adopted it have put
one more lie on their consciences.
THE ANTI-BUSTLE MANIA.
Another sensible within of fashion that has
followers only on paper is The natural back,
but 1t has received its death blow. Plump
woman wont go bustleless because they say
1t makes their dresses lop in to much around
their feet and thin women object because
nine out of ten of them are hollow backed.
Belya Lockwood and DR.. Mary Walker
are therefore about the only ones who
live according to nature in this matter.
Some people prophesy that if Cleveland
had been rejected there wouldn't
have been a hustle in the land by this
time, as Mrs. Cleveland sticks to her plan
OF not wearing them, but the present mis-
tress of the White House has little roll
put into every one OF her gowns which she
further helps out by one very short reed
placed exactly twelve inches below the
waist.
BELLIES WHO WEAR TRoUsE RS.
There is one reformed fad that lots of
fashionable people are adopting here, but
quite on the sly. More of them than an
unsuspecting person would ever dream of
have put on trousers. They call them
divided skirts but they are just as much
breeehes as the kind that Adam made the
pattern for. Some of the them button
halfway down the leg on the inside but
almost the SWEETEST girl at the Capital has
done away with the buttons and has all
hers made for all the world like a Turks
trousers, not like his wifes, reaching mod
estly to the instep, but stopping just below
the knee where they have tiounces no more
than an inch wide.
There must be seven yards for each leg
as when this progressive belle stands in
one position they look like modest petit
coats and seem as full as those worn by
the dancing girls, Silvia Grey and Lefty
Lind. For the streets she has her trou-
serS made of-black Indian silk but for
evening they are dreams of beauty, all
made Of softest silks in the exact shade of
the gown. Itmay have it's drawbacks but the
girls who wears brooches is the only one
who looks genuinely modish, in the
cf iuh oil cly Of
satisfied with this innovation she wears
black silk gauze underwear which fits her
exactly like tights and she has tiny pair
of black corsets which she dons only when
she has her dresses tried on and for garters
she has woven gold wires in spiral coils
like watch spring which gives with every
motion of the leg as the skin gives to pull
sation. She's healthy girl and keeps
right up with the procession in the matter
of style. Miss GRUMPY JR.
Do not weaken yourself by drastic purga-