The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-06-11
TALL OF a
Feet of English aud American Women
Put In Comnnriaou

Put In Comparison.
The agent OF a hrm Of London boot
makers who is In this country taking
orders told something about his busi-
ness the other day. Among other things
he said:
Il have measured the Princess Of
Wales and her daughters for shoes.
Yes, | was a mere lad when l first paid
u visit to Marlborough house, the town
residence of the Prince of Wales, to
measure the Princess and her daugh-
tiers, and very kind and afable they
were, too. What sized boot does she
wear? Oh, come now, that's asking
me TO answer an embarrassing ques-
ton. Well, let us say that her feet and
those of her daughters are about the
same size as those of the majority of
English ladies', which, by the way, will
average from IA or two and a half sizes
larger than those of American ladies. |
have always supposed hat the great
amount of walking done by our ladies
Is, In a measure, responsible for this.
About what you would call a five is the
average thing for an English lady,
rather larger than that, l fancy, II any
thing. And the width About medium
"a C. | should call ii, according to
your measurement.
by the bye, | may as well say that
In beauty of the feet the American
ladies' altogether surpass those Of any
other nationality. Perhaps the Spanish
ladies take as short u boot, but their
feet are, as a rule, not nearly as slender,
but more chubby, as II were. The Rus
sian ladies also are the possessors of
pretty feet, but hardly as much so as
the Americans. As for the German
I'd rather not talk about them. Their
feet are-well, beyond comparison.
But don't think that there are no
exceptions to the rule among American
Here Is an exact sketch of the
foot of n certain young New York lady.
What do you think of that? The size?
Well, that foot. to be comfortably shod.
about ) feet 0 inches in height, and Is a
member OF one of the best families In
New York. And there Is another, also.
The lady is quite well known, 10 only
In New York, but also out of II. Ma
ture has been unkind enough to bestow
upon her a stature measuring Z feet 3
inches, though unfortunately she is at
the same time inclined to slimness. And
what sized boot does she wear? Well,
| have never exactly reckoned up her
size, but my impression is that 1t would
be in the neighborhood Of a No. ID.
But the foot is slender in proportion to
Its length.
why Is 1t that, with the tremendous
success American shoe manufacturing
machinery has achieved in England,
no more attempts have been made by
American shoe manufacturers TO secure
a market there for their low-prlced and
medium grade shoes? The low-grade
goods in England are monstrosities-
that's all | can call them-not only in
styles and shape and general makeup,
but In last and comfort-giving proper
ties. The low-grade goods that | have
examined over here, some of them. at
least, are made ON as good a last as Is
used for a boot three times its cost, and
they look well. If the English navy
had TO choose between them and an
English boot for the same price-say 8
shillings-shere would be but one re-
suit, the English manufacturer would
be obliged to go out of business. Some
of them see the handwriting on the
wall already, and are getting over
American machinery by the shipload."