The morning call., 1893-09-23
TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES.
How the Feet May Be Made Beau
tifuI and Great Comfort Secured.


Take off your shoes and stockings for a
couple of hours each day and ''give the
toes a 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 physical
states?
The liberated feet will repay you in any
one or all of the following ways: The I'M
failing 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 its final
adieu: heart beat will grow stronger and
more regular; the sinking spells"
will gradually disappear; 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 lack
ing in mobility with all Of us-will, as fast
as they gain elasticity. lend it to the en-
tire body.
The feet themselves will grow in
beauty-rather grow beautiful, for the nn-
dressed foot that boats vestige OF beauty
is rare indeed.
Your feet coming daily under your in
spection will be fairly dsagreeable 70 you
until something is done to make them
more shapely. You will hesitate. brought
| face to face with the penalty, to crowd aud
eramp your toes in short. narrow shoes
you will appreciate the enormity of pro-
truding joints and disfguring lunches
you will be ready to do almost anything to
rid your feet of these dlsfgurements.
Next you will wonder whv the toe tips
are family saffron instead of family pink"
like your pretty finger tips. and you will
IL I'D e. .
an energetic rubbing every day until they
come into some resent lance of the ''pe-
tailed toes" of poetry.
Not even the toe nails can escape your
awakened attenti0n-you will trim and
care for them with new interest, even
rub them, il may be. with bit of channels
occasionally.
Lighter spirits. improved digestion,
clearer heads and clearer vision will wait
on the daily rest from shoe aud stockings.
Indeed, doctors nowadays make a special
point of the salutary effect of bare feet on
the eyesight
In Cambridge-that hotbed OF wisdom
and eDligbtenmeni-it is quite the thing
! for the young professors to keep their little
ones unshod till the days of kindergarten
| come.
There is doctor, high in repute in our
northern seaboard States. whose only sou
healthy. jocund little chap of 10 or r.
| never had worn shoes and stockings except
| TO church or dancing class.
While you are giving your gaspiug feet
their daily air bath pirouette about on
your toe tips for fifteen minutes or So Or
| if this light fantastic tripping seems to
You beneath your age or dignity, depend
| on the massage you give your feet 20 es.
tablisb good circulation. 1t is we'll to star
vigorous circulation Immediately the feel
are barred. Otherwise chilled feet and q
| cold may result.
go barefooted now and then" should
not be disregarded by even that rara avis
the perfectly healthy and perfectly happy
woman, for the carriage cannot be per.
| fectly free and graceful until the feet have
had an entirely unimpeded chance to try
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