The herald., 1893-10-01
Washington, September 11th.
TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES.

How the Feet May BE Made Beautiful
and Comfort Secured.
Boston Herald: Take off your shoes
and stockings for couple of hours each
day end "give the toes chance to
breathe"-as one woman expressed it.
and to exercise themselves. You will
soon find that delightful change is
taking place in your tired or torpid
shetland do not our spirits respond
with truly awful precision to the phys
icai states?
The liberated feet will repay you in
any one or all OF the following ways:
The unfailing ache that for long time
has each day taken possession of your
head will-unless other factors than
'nervous' and depletion are at work
make it's fiAal adIeu; heart beat will
grow stronger and more regular; the
"sinking epells'' will gradually disap-
pear, the wan look and pale lips will
respond with roseate tintings to fuller
and freer respiration the very carriage
of yourself will undergo rejuvenation,
for the muscles of foot and ankle-sadly
lacking in mobility with all of us-will,
as fast as they gain elasticity, lend it to
the entire body.
The feet th themselves will grow in
beauty-ratber grow beautiful, for the
undressed foot that boasts yes tige of
beauty is rare indeed.
Your foot coming daily under your in
spection will be fairly disagreeable to
you until something is done to make
them more shapely. You will hesitate,
brought face to face with the penalty, to
crowd and cramp your toes in short,
narrow shoes; you will appreciate the
enormity of protruding joints and dis
figuring bunches-yOu will be ready to
do almost anything to rid your feet of
these disGgurements.
Next you will wonder why the toe
tips are family saffron instead of
''iaintly pink" like your pretty finger
tips, and you will soon make up your
mind to give the toes an energetic rub
bsng every day until they come into
some resemblance OF the "petaled toes"
of poetry.
Not even the toenails can escape your
awakened attention-you will trim and
care for them with new interest, even
rub them, it may be, with bit of cham
ois occasionally.
Lighter spirits, improved digestion,
clearer heads and clearer vision will
wait on the dairy rest from shoe and
stockings. Indeed, doctors nowadays
make special point of the salutary ef-
feet OF bare feet on the eyeaight.
In Cambridge-that hotbed of wisdom
and enlightenment-it is quite the thing
for the young professors to keep their
little ones unshod till the days of kinder
garten come.
There is doctor, high in repute in
our northern seaboard states, W hose only
son-a healthy. jocund little chap OF 10
or 12-neyer had worn shoes and stock
ings except to church or dancing clase.
While you are giving your gasping
feet their daily air bath pirouette about
on your toe tips for 15 minutes or 30. Or
If this light fantastic tripping seems to
you beneath your age or dignity, de-
pend on the massage you give your feet
to establish good circulation. 1t is we'll
to start vigorous circulation imme-
diately the feet are barred. Otherwise
chilled feet and cold may result.
go barefooted now and then" should
not be disregarded by even that rare
avis the perfectly healthy and perfectly
happy wona, 'hs carriage cannot
be perfectly free and graceful until the
feet have had an entirely unimpeded
chance to try their pRcee.