The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-08
WOMEN'S FEET BIGGER?
CHICAGO SAYS "NO.'
Women's feet growing larger?

Women's feet growing larger?
Bosh,
n dreadful alarm hat has shocked
women in every part of Europe and
America was stilled recently in Chi
| cago, according to the News. of that
city. Experts of the city hurled def
ance at the founder of the horrible
rumor. Chicago women in a chorus de-
clared him to be an "odious person.
and too mean for words" The poor
man Is Professor Gieler. of Munich.
who, according to a cable dispatch, de-
clares that the feet of women in Eu-
rope and America are swiftly growing
larger and that some day there will be
little difference between the pedal ter
minals of the two sexes. Professor Gle
Ter has been studying the sculptured
women of mythology. He blames it all
to a love for athletics and walking and
mentions the English women in partic-
ular.
Shoe dealers, c~hiropodists, athletic in
structors, artists-all such as are quail
fed to handle the charges of Prot.
Gieler-uttered NAY. Nay.' when told
the fearful tidings. None of them adj
mitted that the trend of the times was
lONdIu ldlSG- lcGl, nOE l1uI atllellCS
and walking ever enlarged this feature
of the anatomy. Some even gurgled
that the tendency is toward smaller feet
il American ome Others defied
Venus and Minerva and those other old
g.sis of mythology to descend from
thc,r pedestals and try On an Ameri-
can-built walking shoe.
TIE feet of athletic women are just
"a. t,,. -, tb1., x-ar b;,yxr a.-- e, .~,
when ] began as a gymnasium in
structor," said Otto Schmidt, physical
instructor Of the Central Turn Verein.
The indulgence by women in athletics
and p~edestrianism makes no difference
in the size of their feet, as / know from
my own observation. Children come
here ut a tender age and begin athletic
exercises fitted COR their youthful
bodies All through girlhood they eX-
ercise steadily and romp at basketball
and other games like SO many boys.
When they become young women there
is no observable difference in the size
of their feet and those of ~unathletic
girls, save that those of the former
are better proportioned. But they have
no trouble in squeezing into ballroom
slippers
nat t1l1 illtiilStIl NOl1ltH jlflN -
the smallest feet was one theory offered.
THE women of other times labored
harder, in the fields and in the house,
and it was natural that they should
need roomy shoes" said Max Pincus, a
c~hiropodisr. "The women of the pres
ent use their brains a great deal more
thousands of them depend entirely upon
their mental, abilities. There seems to
ha INN connection with orrfr ipfalJi
gence and the size of ones feet, for the
brainy people have the most symmetri-
cal bodies in many cases"
"A owe for walking most certainly
does not develop large feet declared
b. +. De Muth. The increase in the
sale of substantial walking shoes for
women has been marvellous in the last
few years. These are worn largely by
the classes of women endowed with
dainty feet. The women are using good
judgment nowadays n 'paper-sole'
ballroom slippers are not sought after
as street boots. Even women's low
shoes mostly are equipped with stout
welt soles, colonial pumps of sturdy
make being popular.
Students at the Art Institute today
quizzically examined the 'tootsies'' of
the noble plaster statutes in the build
ing and laid wagers that the drapery-
clad damsels would find trouble in
entering a cute little State street walk
ing "boot"-size 3a.
Look at the Indian woman" said
an artist. "They were walkers for
countless generations and mostly went
harefootcd. Yet their feet are gener-
ally smaller thar those of the Cau-
casian women. Their moccasins are
too small for US"
THAT stuff isn't going to discourage
me when l want to tramp miles and
miles over the golf links" said a young
woman of the north side set. mo old
fcgy of Munich is going TO spoil my
fun"
In defense of the athletic English
women, a shoe dealer said recently that
they, with the Amerio IN women, re-
quired the smallest shoe measure of
all The races with which he had dealt.