The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-02-03

when the Twentieth Century Girl
Paints 1t Is Her ShoestrinRs In
stead of Her Stay Laces That Are
Cut.
New York, Feb. Thigh heels and
narrow toes ought to be legislated
against" said the foot surgeon and mas
seuse as she rested and rocked and wait
ed. watch in hand, for her next patient.
''Tie the feet of a healthy woman into
a pair of tight, narrow, thin-soled Ok
ford ties, stilted up on spool-shaped heels
behind, and the result of their steady
wear will be almost any disease that fem
mime flesh is heir TO-
Fifty years ago. she continued, 1T
used to be abe fashion to cut a fainting
woman's stay lace, but only last week /
discovered that when the twentieth CEN
fury girl threatens to swoon, the smart
est cut 40 her restoration is by severing
her shoestrlngs. 1t was during the shop
ping hours that a pretty creature came
staggering in here, pale as ghost and
begging a drink of water. She dropped
down on my red velvet sofa and while
1 sent my assistant hustling to the cool
or in the back room, took the case in
at a glance. Before the sufferer could
protest / had whipped out my knife and
ripped open her little, hard. gothic heeled
shoes Furthermore, l pulled them and
her stockings off completely, and, TAX
ing her bruised. ice-cod extremlties into
nv lap as ] sat on the floor, massaged
the blood back into her torpid heels and
toes The poor child simply sat up and
dried with relief. When the faint feeling
was over and her spirits in a measure re-
stored / gave her a generous pie-shaped
piece of my mind.
81 threatened her with nervous collapse,
chronic dyspepsia, spinal neuralgia. or
consumption II she did not cease wearing
those abominable little shoes, and can
assure you / was not Ia king nonsense,
for 1t Is my business not molly to straight
en- out and beautify feminine feet, but 10
aid at the same time the feminine nerves
and digestion. The above mentioned Ills
are caused by trifies just as slight as a
pinching toe, lofty heel, or shoe worn
so close that it interferes with the circu-
lation in the extermities and Injuries the
stomach and heart action.
Scientific Treatment.
1.-THE fainting stranger took my words
in their literal sense and let me first give
her feet a strong rock salt bath, slip on
them a pair of very thin but pure wool
stockings, and then 1T her to a pair of
SOtt, WdFIns DTOdQ lHNdilQ SHOES. mat ~
my first stage in the restoration process.
for 10 slraighten shoe marred feet is the
special branch of my business. In the
next stage | put the injured feet into
stockings that are woven with pockets,
INFO which the great toes s ip. This Ia the
first effort / make towards drawing
these toes back into place, and IL / can
take foot in charge in time / can, first
by digitated stockings and then by the
use OF shoes, that have separate com
partments into which the great toes sip,
rectify the Irregular shape Of the foot
entirely
perhaps you did not know" the spec
iallst added how widely digitate hose OF
| silk, Isle, or wool are worn by women
| nowadays, for the special purpose OF re.
! storing the prehensi.e faculties to their
/ badly treated toes. and thus adding
! grace and strength TO the feet. But be.
sides the digitate stocking ! give my pa.
| TENTS feet scientific massage twice q
week, and then course Of toe and hee
| exercise TO practice every morning.
AFTER the bath a little rubbing, anc
use of the manicure night and morn
ing, ] instruct any one under my treat
rnent to sit in low chair before a bath
rug and vigorously push about unde
the soles Of their feet long, crash
covered, wooden rolling pin, or a couple
of hard rubber balls. In Europe at on
of the cures they send their patients GU
| barefoot to tramp up and down I'm I
white sand. and having handed this ide,
over to some OF my patrons, they fin,
the most extraordinarily fine exercise
be got out Of "A long, shallow zinc-lu
box fun Of damp. white sand. In VIII.
they tread up and down, pressing IN
moist mass between the toes until ever!
incn of tive feet have been thoroughly ex
ercised. This Is the most practical mean
for stirring the blood In the extremitics
and what IL equally important, It harden,
the skin Of the feet that Is rendered al