San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-12-27

OF vi natrery TO tneir masters, OF Oh
AN aneclIUn OF SUPERIORITY 10 their
ueIteis, or an anected cl1tlclsm Oh
what is beyond their understanding,
II rs an the same, IL answers the pur-
pose of an undue elevation, it is the
nigh boot-heel. No matter what con-
tortions it causes, what ungainliness
of walk, what corns, what rid;cule,
what criticism on the part of wise
men, they are so wrapped in the lion
SKIN of their own pretensions that
they see it not. Like a giraffe, their
heads in the air, they see only the
corridors of daily life until they lind
stars and go on laundering down the,
some son-of-agun who will shoot the
heels off their high heeled boots, as
the Memphis blood did those of the
dandy niger, and then there VIII he
a Fore Gawd," scared Niger and
a dismounted high heller
The political world is full OF these
| high heelers. Men who imagine
themselves fit for the legislative field
and only so because the boot-makers
have BATTERED them into the belief
| that they were ordained to wear high
heeled boots. This is equally true
of the other professions, law, divinity,
medicine, journalism. Men thrust in
| to position by some accident to the
other fellow, standing upon the added
height of their boot-heels alone and
assuming place for which neither
| education, natural quality or ability,
but unnatural cheek alone has fitted
| them. The kind of service that cheek
| alone renders a man capable of filling
can better be left to the Imagination
| than described. A man is human
being grown to Maturity through ma
tural process. These high-heeled
bootees are men who stand on the lev
ell with their fellow by accident of
life, or by chances of luck, and imag-
inc themselves the equal of those who
stand squarely upon their feet. and
not on their high heels to reach the
altitude
The high heller is the man who is
destined to come to earth on the run,
because he is unnaturally elevated
and the unnatural is short lived at
best The accident that made him
can just as easily unmake, and he is
only the creature of the accident, not
the creator of his fortunes. These
men coming into position and little
brief authority by the happen so Of
chance and the impudence of cheek,
have no conception of the worth and
sterling manhood behind the positions
they assume to fill, as such are usu-
ally filed, and grow to have con-
g. INvtl irns on.
behind them, seeing yet unseeing, nor
noting that the boot-heel is all that
has raised them higher than their fell
lows. The cure will come in time.
That high boot-heel, narrower on the
ground by half than anywhere else,
will run over, the foot will be twisted
out of place and the ankles strained,
and permanent lameness follow.
To walk gracefully in one of these
narrow bottomed, tight ankled, high
heeled boots is impossible. 1t gives
a Trilby mine to the walk, and adj
,vertises the wearer as fool of the
first water So with the man with
high heels only to his mind. He i'm
AGNES his Trilby tread along the roads
of business. or the walks Of social life.
or the paths of literature, the most
perfect locomotion, and takes the
amusement of the world Of intelligent
observation as tribute to his mastery
movement. The world would lose a
lot of fun in these degenerate days,
were there no stilted kids to wear
monstfosities in the way Of high-heel-
ell boots. Some Of these boots seem
to j.. made expressly for the wearers,
in order to show how little common
sense started them on the road to life
with. There are boot-makeIs whose
business it is to lie in wait for these
prrcocious suckers and fit them with
the high heels best calculated to take
their eye and make them the butt of
their generation.
On this Christmas time, rs the year
draws to a close, it behoOVes the real
ders of the Light to examine their I'M
derstandings. To see if they stand lev
el on the ground. If they wear COM
mon sense boots, with level heels and
such as preserve the feet in the best
shape for rapid and graceful move
ment along the thorouglfare OF life.
| Beware of the man who recommends
you to wear a high-heeled boot. Be
ware of the man who wears a high
| heeled boot. You shall know them
| by their walk. The man who goes
| out of his path to kick a stone in the
way of another wears the high -heeled
| boot of envy. The man who tries to
step a foot higher on the reputation
| of some one he has tried to belittle,
is wearing high-heeled boot fashion
ed for him expressly, the boot of ma
tural and ingrained cussedness. The
man in authority or position, who is
despised of his associates and who is
! discourteous to his subordinates is the
| wearer of the meanest, narrowest,
highest boot-heel on this side Of sheol.
| Beware of him.