The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-02
TAKE YOUR FEET OFT or JAIL.


4 woman in this city earns her living hy Civ
ing treatment to the feet "f other women at
their homes. OF course, sh" does for her
patients all that the skilled chiropodst eau do,
but her speciality j. treating the feet a an aid
in restoring nervous strength. If She had her
own way. she says. she would try 10 persuade
all women to 90 without shoes entirely and
wear sandals or Chinese slippers the year
round. Thereby she believes the statistics Of
nervous diseases would promptly show n
marked falling on
Hot. narrow soIcd. toe rinching. hgh-hut-
toned and laced shoes arc at tn" bottom 81 one
half the wrinkles. tears, trmpcrs. and early
gray hair in this country. a. least Sh" says.
and my whole mission In life is to bring light
and liberty to the American foot. for Nv" found
by investigation that whore race goes bare
foot or wears sandals it knows nothing Of ner
vous Affections
The healthy. comfortable foot is always as
free to expand as the hand as free to the air
and the toes nearly as sensitive. important and
wei! developed as the fingers. That Is the foot
of the East Indian woman. for example. who
will reach out and nick ncedlc from III" floor
with her toes, or with her LEFT loot ON her right
great and second toe and sew away with the
| ease OF a creature owning twenty lnstChd %
srm t yon Win Snd # as sr?ns warm ana
prehensile as a human hand. Well; that Is
T short TTF T"nmh f o. h~ "9 chnes know
no more deplornhle object than tho average
| feminine foot am called in I" treat.
| You GEO nv mission il particularly to ner-
vous women. I've list OF ratients as long rs
my arm TO whom | give foot massngr. and
can almoat guarantee to- smooth out half the
neurastheric tsntrums nv stripping the poo
| mamed feet Of their coverings and rubbing
them gently aud regularly m and down. back
| portant nerves. blood vessels aud muscles lie
| AFTER this rcrsuatc the ra'icnt to givc. her
l f,n "a "a O..
| and then | struggle with the shn" urohl"m.
na"nt a,h"r I'D n" 1ae"rG sh tr'n
| cold feet from chromosomes. and even. IL Won
will he jeyc me. from wrinE an "yrry any
| larry To cure sore Joints by maSsag" and corns
by r2uIti%nG ana nrninn "a Jr, wIn my my
apart as zoos should lie. mud especially, Ia de.
! vnNp tho little too which the modern shoe Z"
CyizPi@m las fGurS e r"E amH "rI%"
| keep IN n running FIR" Of explanation mat
gradually Interest mN!n"stimlIiI"r"nft yn'"Tt
walk : like Diana and who's" foot Is ~ lI"a IAN
to tho touch n- the manifest, most intc!ig"n
wrinkle till she is 80. and all thi- chiefly hc
caus" Of the sandal SIT" wears leNran 40
meaning and importnmco Of those so" nerves
that might he truthIulv written soul nerves
that are almost III" most sensitive n ne 70, :
ana tf2 are "rHsT"d mm "aTm ns" toes
and worst Of all by heirg crushed together t
fit .ho" bottom that j. "nIy @mGHH a. W
when show woman her nhkeI loot ~ al IT
| objectionable Ehnstlv Iail0r, swollen veins an.
red knobs aud ask her il she thinks ~" won
| boar the paiu ~ ~UhIcctinE her hand to a Wis
that could reduce it to such state OF angui'l
AMI ug'in"sS. -, ,.
| prove that her bodily fatigue, III" wrinkles ~.
| tween her eyebrows and her h1p-and- Eo-'Ctrh
| il gait are all the result OF her valiant effort
| Ia st"rr herself along nnd as" IN" rr"SS'ir. u
much IA possible on h"rtight,y cI"n"h",i t""
that huv" neither air nor swift cirnnIati"n .
blood and yot on them is cast all IA" weigh
mi work - the body. Som" women fnoI
feet arc related TO the nerves, OF thct
hearts. stomach. and bruins. aud Nine; COW
Is on" ri them when nnYi"ty ana hnr
work press upon hor she nuts of -lmn"rs m
! Stockings Ietting her feet breath" - wha
. she calls sitting 2, long hour wrigEllnE he
p mink toes drlight"dly in tho sun or running u
| and down thu rooms 10 str"tch the s"."s. A'tr
| tIis sh" lies down and has her maid g"ntl
! rhorr tho bottoms ~ her f""t TIL she 'lrnI
I | into n ,lrru s'nrn whence she comes soothe
, | and vigorous for saw amount oi work
. "JuSt try taking your feet out ~ lnii som
, dav when tn" world is too much with YOU,
v mr." r,'t n convert to pedooEv then AL can 81
, T. your feet have been manElcd beyond n
q drmptiOn.'