The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-10-24
WHAT'S A PRETTY FOOTa
WILL 1T BE FOUND INSIDE OF A
PRETTY SHOE7
Must the Foot Fit the shoe-Othsr Cues
lions Not Easily Answered
what Is Said by q Manu-
facturer.

Two women. says the New Yorl
Recorder, were one day comparing the
physical attractiveness OF their respec
tive hands and feet. The elder woman
had known one imperative rule. in
every compromise with the inhibitions
OF fashion In dress-she must be com.
Portable. She had worn corset but
not to assist her spinal column IN hold.
ing her erect. She had worn gloves,
but never in defiance OF the fact that
she owned thumb. She had worn
neat shoes, but with a pretty foot rath-
or than pretty shoe constantly In
mind. The younger woman had al
ways been called a stylish GIRL" and
she had looked at things quite differ
emily. She had so crushed her muscles
with the corset that it tired her to sit
up without the artificial bones. Her
gioved hand looked like cav, Her
feet
Well, she put out one OF them, wrig-
CLING her great toe. The other toes
were lifeless. The elder woman put
out her foot with every toe free and
vigorous, a healthy roundness visible
in every turn of the muscles. The
stylish girl was astonished, but not
no might have been hoped. "Why. "
she said in commiserating depreciation,
your foot doesn't taper at ALL"
In the foot that didn't taper" the
great toe went straight forward about
q hIta N
ness in every step of the foot In the
foot that did taper the great toe
turned In at great angle. with a
prophecy OF bunion at the joint, and
met the huddled group OF other toes
all crouching over to meet It, scram-
bling, climbing over each other in a
pitiable effort to meet the center line
OF the foot
The difference between the two wo-
mon lay in this: One got h. r ideas of
n pretty foot from the shape OF the So
called pretty shoe. Feet to her were
made to fit shoes. She had never
looked-or had certainly never looked
twice-at that right foot OF the Venus
of Milo The other looked for beauty
In the finest natural growth OF the foot,
regarding the appendage first and par
ticularly, as something to walk on, and,
second, as q feature to be clothed in
accordance with its own needs. One
OF the most famous shoe manufacture
ers IN America said the other day:
Women are only beginning to de-
mand the comfort that men asked for
years ago. They are only beginning
to see that their poor feet have some
rights that shoes are bound to respect.
Or course, We will always make shoes
that women insist upon wearing. but
we persist in quiet way in trying to
persuade them to wear shoes that are
large enough.
1T seems % me most unfortunate
that modern training should be giving
women such narrow feet There is
nothing beautiful in a narrow foot A
narrow foot Is not fit to walk on. No
woman has a narrow foot who has
walked as much as she should. With
all their pinching women do not sue
coed in making their feet any shorter
They only middle and cripple the toes,
fill their feet with deformities and
make them narrow and habby. A foot
should have breadth in proportion
to its length, and IL is most beautiful
when 1t looks big enough to walk on.
did you ever stop to think OF the
position OF foot in small, high
heeled shoe? 1t is horrible. The high
heeled shoe is supposed to do two
things-make foot look smaller and
the woman taller But what is 1t
doing to the foot?
How frequently we hear it said
that women do not walk so well as
men. Nobody questions the fact that
the shoes and the deformed feet are
responsible. In n graceful walk every
thing depends on the final spring from
the foot just leaving the ground Now.
II your toes are huddled together and
do not spread firmly. it will be pain
full to rest for II moment on them in
making this elastic movement, and
the foot will hurry the weight to the
heel OF the advanced foot. Watch
woman with small shoes and spoiled
feet walk up the street It is an ele-
giant limp and not walk.