Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-04-18

wheel in footwear must necessarily
be limited. There is less opportu-
nifty for variety in shoes than in
most articles of apparel, unless
your taste runs to contrasting tints
in lsces and leather or glaring
stitches and bead work for the
street, and the shade of difference
in the width of toe or the slight
variation in position or height of a
heel is all that marks the passing
from the cult of one season to that
of another.
High heels are having their in
nings Just now and many and divers
are the ills that result thererfom.
There is no denying the fact that
in itself, apart from it's effect upon
a woman's health and her grace of
movement, the high heel is pretty.
1t makes a foot look smaller. it gives
until it destroys it altogether) an
appearance of greater height to
the arch of the instep and ii looks
more in keeping with the daintiness
and frivolity of true womans' get
up, but here its advantages end.
There is something particularly
fetching about high-heeled,
pointed toed slipper just peeping
from under the voluminous ruffles
of a frilly petticoat, but just let
the owner of that slipper get up to
cross the room and in niue cases
out of ten the illusion is spoiled (!
The Frcnch-heclcd woman is rare
dy comfortable about the feet, and
If her feet are not comfortable she
can not walk we'll.
Watch a crowd of women enter
ing the dining room of hotel and
she who comes with an easy,
graceful, Swimming movement is
the woman whose heels are of
moderate height and whose toes
:ae not crammed into space a quar-
ter of an inch too narrow for them,
while she whose walk is character
lied by little jerks and lack of
rhythm is she who clings despite
all warnings to her beloved high
heel.
Now, all feet are not built just
alike. The common-sensc last for
one type of extremity is anything
but common sense for another. A
woman whose instcp is by nature
high and whose big toe extends
some little distance beyond its
fellows can comfortably wear a
higher heel and more pointed toe
than her flat-footcd sister, but even
she must have a care as to how far
she carries her privilege or the day
of reckoning will come.
Falling instcp is disease COM
mon among nurses and other women
who stand much on their feet, and
the active woman who affects the
extremely high heel while going
about her daily tasks is fairly court
ing this danger. Half the sprained
ankles in the world result from high
heels, two-thirds of the corns and
bunions, but despite all this it is
pretty certain that women will
continue wearing them to the enc
of time.
For the woman who refuses tc
use her ounce of prevention there i:
ahc pound of cure for the resultant
evils in the numerous powders anc
lotions that flood the market, anc
since this benefits the merchants
the wind is not altogether ill
The woman who adorcs high heel:
should bathc her feet often and cul'
tivate a talent for massage. She
will need the latter if she wants tt
keep her joints the normal size.
She should also keep an eye to
her figure. The heel habit will DE-
wonders toward throwing the hu
man body out of plumb and it re-
.quircs constant watchfulness to cir
cumvcnt it's wilcs. BY and by
when she grows older and NOR
sensible and less vain, she will
take to flat heels of her own &C
cord.