The Anaconda standard., 1899-11-19
FEET SHOULD BE AIRED.
Tight-Fitting Shoes the Cause of Early
Gray Hairs.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
"Hot, narrow-soled, toe-pnching, high
buttoned and lace shoes are at the bot
tom of one-half the wrinkles, tears, tenn
pers and early gray hair in this country,
at least" said a woman who earns her
support as pedo1ogist, land my whole
mission in life is to bring light and lib
erty. to the American foot, for I've found
by investigation that, where a race goes
barefoot or wears sandals. they know
nothing of nervous Affections"
"You see, my mission is particularly to
nervous women. I'va a fist of patients as
long as my arm to whom l give foot mas
sage, and can almost guarantee to
smooth fout half the neurasthenic tam
trums by stripping the poor. MANNED feet
of their coverings and rubbing gently and
regularly up and down. back and forth
on the soles, where so many important
nerves.. blood vessels and muscles lie.
After this I persuade the patient to give
her feet fresh air daily, sun baths. if she
can get them, and then l struggle with
the shoe problem.
mo patent leather and no dancing
shapes do allow worn by a patient who
suffers from cold feet, sleeplessness, and
even, if you will believe me, from wrin-
kles, and every day l come to rub and
battle the feet, but particularly to cure
sore joints by massage and corns by poul
ticing and manipulation with my thumbs.
My main effort is to draw the toes apart,
as toes should lie, and especially to de-
velop the little toe that the modern shoe
of civilization has reduced to mere
stump, preyed upon by callosties. While
I rub and battle keep up running fire
of explanation that gradually interests
my most Indifferent patient.
II explain the meaning and Importance
of those sole nerves, that might be truth
fully written soul nerves, that are almost
ha nnSt iva n Tho NJ
! are wracked and tortured by the hot.
| Jared joints, crushed nails, corn-infested
| toes, and. worst of all, by being crushed
| together to fit shoe bottom that is only
/ one-half as wide as the foot itself. It is
| a powerful argument when I show a wo-
! man her naked foot in all its objectiona-
| bic, CHASTITY pallor, swelled veins and red
4 knobs and ask her if she thinks she
4 would bear the pain of subjecting her
/ hand to a wise that could reduce it to
such state of angushed ugliness.
"She is not apt to doubt my word when
l prove that her bodily fatigue. the wrin-
! kles between her eyebrows and her hop.
and-go-fetch-it gait are all the result o:
her valiant efforts to steer herself along
| and ease the pressure as much as possi-
| BILE on her tightly clinched feet. that have
neither air nor swift circulation of blood,
and yet on them is cast all the weight
and work Of the body.
! Some women know by instinct how
nearly the nerves Of their feet are related
to the, nerves of their hearts, stomachs
and brains, and Nine. Calve is one Of
them. When anxiety and hord work press
upon her she puts off slippers and stock
ings. Letting her feet breathe is what
she calls sitting long hour wriggling
her pink toes delightedly in the sun OF
running up and down the room to stretch
the soes. After this she lies down and
has her maid gently chafe the bottoms 0.
her feet until she drops into deep sleep
whence she comes soothed and vigorous
for any amount of work. e.