The Washington times., 1895-02-10
They Give a Fairly Correct Idea
of Ones Personality.
NEN FAD OF FOOT MODELLING
It Is Popular with MANY women-Ths Fin
de Steele Girl Has hot Good Looking Bars
Feet, but Her Boots, That Have Caused all
the Trouble. Remain Thing Of Beauty
What Feet Tell to the Cbservant

To have ones foot modelled In marble Is tha
vogue. number OF society women are do
ing so-wheu they happen to have pretty feet.
Probably ''Trilby'' has made every woman
seriously regard her uncovered pedal extrem-
tiles from an artistic standpoint. Writers
have long enthused over the hand worthy to
be perpetuated in marble. hut it took a latteE
day nineteenth century genius TO impress
upon the gent er sex ''that real, live, bars
human foot could be such charming object
to look at"
This present investigation by smart women
as TO the suitability OF such modelling brings
a s.aTtling Tact light; one limited at before,
but never facet; that the fin lie steele girl
hasn't good looking bare feet. She will have
them. she tells you. and points with pride 70
ths roun l-toed. fiat-heeled calf walking boot.
But that does not help her in the present
difficulty OF responding to the fashionable
call for plaster casts of the foot in its con-
fessed state Of ungainly exereseenees and per-
verte outlines.
Many Leles who have confidently put for
ward on the avenue or at social functions a
dainty, ben chasesse member, wonders in
horror il a plaster east OF it WOlld be as much
admired. However. she consoles herself
with the reflection that sandals have not
come In. that she can refuse to have a east
on exhibition il it is ungainiy, and her welI-
The Partisan and London women have lost
their hearts 10 this foot modelling. few
well-known actresses exhibit casts OF theiI
feet in the windows OF art shops, and great
number Of mondaines are showing 10 inti-
mates the result OF the sculptor in their dlrec-
tion. A half dozen society ladies in New
York have had Impressions taken Of their IN
booted member, but until the result OF their
daring is aseertained, it is spoken Of behind
closed doors
PALMIsT's OPINION.
Apropos Of this new fashion in bare feet in
vestigation asked Cheiro if in his studies
Of character expressed in physical outlines he
had found aught Of import in the shape OF
the foot.
He said that his attention had been called
to the significant part these useful extremities
! played in character reading when living in
| southern Persia. The Arabs there go san
daled, and one finds the foot in primitive
| untrammeled condition. TIE feet being IN
\ fettered for generations, the shape becomes
| more and more in accordance with the per-
| sOnality.
/ The following points. he remarked, help TO
| determine temperament or disposition by the
1 walking members:
| THE INDEPENDENT AND CRUEL FOOT.
In the first place, the big toe not elinging,
as it were, to the others, is the sign Of inde-
pendence Of spirit. 1t is especially noted
among the wandering tribes of Arabs wha
have never and will never give up their free.
4 dom 20 either the Shah or the Sultan. An
instance of this feature is nearer home. foI
the Indian foot always shows the big toe de-
taehed. especially among the Araches. With
the characteristic of independence is also
closely allied spirit of cruelty This mark,
however. is turned by civilization. To-day
the woman's foot with space between the two
I first toes indicates individuality. pride and
resolution. amounting to obstinacy if thG
space is very wide.
SIGNS OF AMBITION.
/ Ii the big toe is elevated or raised atovs
the others when the foo; is placed fat on the
ground it is generally accepted as sign Of
! great ambition, a desire for power and posi-.