The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-13

as It were-to give that springy graceful
motion in walking 50 much desired, and
II we allow II to drop down and become
utterly useless by wearing a spring heel
shoe until the foot has attained It's full
growth, we simply can't walk with a
spring, but will find ourselves shuffiing
along.
did you ever hear that expression,
She walks like a cow applied to a wo-
man with high-arched instep2 No, and
neither did any one else. The next time
you hear that remark made about girl
or woman look at her feet closely; you
will find that they are spread out over a
good deal Of real estate and that instead
Of being curved on top they are perfectly
nat. Cows, II you Will notice, are per
fectly hat-footed, but horses are not Who
ever saw horses hoof that lay perfectly
Nat on the ground as 1t walked alongy And
Q horse that r. well treated, no matter
how common its blood. will walk along
with that springy motion which IL was in
tended that human beings should have"
Yes, It is" admitted the customer.
"Only yesterday / said just about those
Same words to my l6-year-old daughter.
Here she comes now. Her feet are a dis
grace to me, and ! want you to see II the
proper shoes can make them look any
more Dresentable."
A jolly school girl bounded in and took
her seat, throwing one foot up on a stool.
She vas not very tall for her age and
weighed not more than 100 pounds. The
manager removed a boot that might we'll
have belonged to tie fat woman in the
side show of country circus. Then he
examined the foot critically.
"Ah, ha, he half muttered to himself.
$50 you blame her for having big feet? IT
is all your fault The idea Of keeping a
girl of her age In springfield bootsl You've
simply ruined the shape Of her foot for
ever, but perhaps II you have the right
shaped foot made for her 1t will build up
her foot a little. BY actual measurement
her foot Is ia Inches long and 81 inches
on the ball, and perfectly fiat. Stand up.
young woman. See, you have destroyed
the last vestiRe Of the arch of your insfep
/ M " a
heel and a sole that fits well up under the
instep, and you win find it much more
comfortable"
''Did you ever see such a foot on a grip
asked the mother, with a ring OF despair
in her voice.
Dear me, yes Her foot is not an un-
91a G last. OF course, Il is longer than the
average, but 1t isn't much wider The
dren to appear young Is visited on the
children, and 1t is nothing uncommon for
girls from Is to 20 10 call for Nos. As, IS,
6s, or rs.
But aren't people naturally hat-foot-
ed?" asked the customer. Didn't the
creator intend our feet to rest fiat on the
ground so that the weight OF the body
should be equally distributed over them?
1t doesn't seem to me right that the en-
tire weight, say OF a 200 pound woman
should be thrown entirely on the heel
and the ball Of the foot. Now ! thought
that the habit of wearing shoes for thou
sands Of years had produced the arch of
the instep, and that it was abnormal.
My dear lady" exclaimed the man
ager, your IDEAS are altogether mistak-
en-. 1t IS no more natural for a woman
to be fat-footed than IL is for a horse
In nine cases ont Of ten splay-foot Is
caused by wearing spring heel shoes too
long, or by wearing ill-fitting shoes You
say that when a woman wears a shoe
with no heel her weight is distributed
evenly over her foot That's where yoa
are wrong. 1t falls on the heel and bail,
and the instep catches not one bit Of H.
Why's Because you put foot into
shoe with a perfectly fiat sole. The heel
has a rest and the ball OF the foot has
rest but the natural up-curve of the
part between these two points has abso-
lutely no support, because II cannot yet
reach the sole Of the shoe. But very soon
IL does, you may be sure. The instep is
gradually pushed down by the weight OF
the body, and begins to spread out to-
ward the toes as the fore part Of the foot
is more pliable than the heel. What is
the result?
broader and broader and 1atter and fiat
ter, and then you begin TO make your
poor girl uncomfortable by constantly re-
minding her Of her large, unshapely feet,
and saying, Where you get them from is
a mystery to me. They must come from
your fathers side Of the house. for none
OF my people ever had such feet Why,
your grandmother, the day she died wore
a No. /, and to-day / wear only a 2 b
last. Now isn't that true?' +"