The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-25
FORTUNES HURT BY BOOTS.
As Well as Ones Health, Color
and Disposition.
Women Who Once Wore Sc Now
Ask for IS, Double a, Pointed
Toes"-The Growth of Love An
alyzed and Stated in Terms Of
Shoas.
From the New York Recorder.

alyzed and Stated in Terms Of
Shoes.
From the New York Recorder.
Mind you. there isn't man living. I
don't care how eloquent he is, but what
can spoil all his eloquen- and make him
as dull as bottle If he will wear some
shoes that will make for him. III bet
you hat that i'll could shoe congress,
and put boots on all the democrats there,
I can give the Republican party the full
swing
That is what veteran shoemaker said.
''Some people say" he went on, "that
the best thing that can befall man is to be
born lucky, but l say it is better to have
good footwear; then he has got to be
lucky, it don't make any difference how
he is born.
Everybody known mans brain can't
work when the circulation is impeded,
and nothing viii stop the circulation of
the blood like tight boots. If wanted to
do an enemy an ill turn 1 would oblige
him to wear pair of boots l selected,
and l would make him stupid thick
Drained and silly.
Say, did you notice how all the men
who came back from the worlds fair felt
better and thought the trip had benefited
them, while nine out Of every ten women
came back worn out and had to rest
and recuperate for twoaor three weeksl"
''Of course
"It's all simple enough when one looks
at it from the shoemaker's point Of view.
Woman's weak spot is her foot. She goes
out shopping or sightseeing, as at the fair,
and soon finds herself deadly tired.
Women don't stop to analyze how they
are iatigued. If they did they would find
it was just their feet, and that reflex &C
tion, as the athletes say, makes them.
THINK THEMSELVES TIRED
from crown to sole.
"If l were to tell you that an innocent
looking stylish pair of walking boots
could spoil a woman's fortune and
standing in life you would say / was an
extremist, but can prove my words.
when man looks around for a woman
to marry. he has got to begin by admiring
her first love doesn't strike fellow like
the cramps or being hit by a locomotive;
it creeps along, and gets its innings on the
sly.
"A man seesa girl, in the street maybe;
he admires her Tor the way she carries
herself; he doesn't look TO see the size of
walking-and there is not one woman in a
thousand who does walk well-so that is
the beginning of his admiration
''She had on a loose, properly made pair
of boots, or she couldn't have attracted
mis- attention. See the pOint}
All right. The next time he happens
to meet her he sees she has a marvellous
complexion, clear, bright enticing.
How did she get it, From hor shoes.
A aub
perfect digestion, comes from exercise,
and mygirl Pm telling you about couldn't
have a sluggish stomach with all the out
door walking she does and she couIdn'
walk in poor boots.
$50 You see, her complexion comes from
where l said it did.
Then thema who is now paying par
ticulaF attention Co all the good points of
thisgif1 sees she is anlagnf f3cently formed
woman, with the physique of goddess.
and | know how she got that it was the
good shoes she had worn ali her life that
gave it to her.
when she was little girl she was
rightly shod; she could run and climb.
scale fences, scramble up trees. and her
Development was not in any way i'm
pedec, and her grace was then established,
a thing which, if child possesses,
SHE KEEPS AS A WOMAN.
"By the time fellow has taken in all
this about young woman he wants to be
introduced to her; if he is lucky enough
to meet her, her disposition, he finds,
equals all her other charming points, and
he is her slave
"Of course, needn't tell you it is her
shoes that make her position good for
good digestion, outdoor exercise, freedom
from pain of corns, ingro wing nails, ETC.
would give any one good disposition.
u know prominent society woman
right in this city, the wife Of colonel of
one ofNew York IS swell regiments, whose
husband married her for her walk.
at happened this way: One morning
he was walking down the avenue and
right ahead OF him was girl with walk
that would tickle military man most to
death. She swung along, hands at sides
shoulders squared, stepped well on the
balls Of her feet, chin in and moving free
and easy, with gait like clock work and
the colonel says now that he
used to, watch for that girl every
day and he fell in love with
her walk first and finally married her.
81 have shod that girl from four years
old up to the present time"
did you know" continued the old
shoemaker that there are very few
people whose feet match2 It's so. The
left foot is always a trihe larger. This
is because people are so booted that they
have to fsyor the feet.
1T is usual for people as they start to
walk to put out the right foot first; the
shoe hurts them somewhere. and they
try to step lightly on it and favor it, and
then they come down heavier on the left
one and continue to walk so, and this.
MAKES A oNE-sIDED WALK
"It's sad and surprising to see the old
shoes people leave off. About nine in
every 40 pairs are worn down at the heel.
That tells big story to the ones who
know. Why, any instructor in a gymna-
stun would know TO look, at those shoes,
that the wearers were in a bad way, going
toward invalidism.
The one thing trainers and gymnasts
teach is this: Stand on the balls Of your
feet. Ii you will not they
will not accept you as a
pupil For to do it is to throw out the
chest. square the shoulders, draw in the
abdomen, strengthen the whole muscular
system and fill the lungs with deep breath
ing.
And yet the shoes of few people ever
show much wear on the soles, but show
now the wearer has sagged and slouched
back on his heels.
a can remember" said the narrator,
when you could hardly buy pair of
boots or shoes in the United States"
''Why3"
ftIhev all had to be made 10 order