The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-09
Her Feet Growing Larger.

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Be calm, madam!
It's about your feeti
They are growing bigger!
Almost as these lines grow!
Fact. Several shoe men said so, and
they ought to know. If any one does.
They didn't mince words about tell
| ing it, either. Their explanation is
| even more horrible than the fact it
| self. They say it is because women
are doing more walking now than they
ever did since they were in bondage
large loads of garden vegetables to
market on their heads and return with
the monev SO that their agricultural
| husbands could invest it in corn and
rye.
This doesn't mean, according to the
shoe men, that the feet of New York
women only are growing larger. 1t ap-
plies to women everywhere. So 1t would
appear that at last womankind is now
paying the penalty of getting into bust
ness just like a man. instead of stay
ing home to teach baby to say papa"
or dress the table prettily for dinner.
She goes out and tramps around the
city for the greater part of the day
trying to sell something or sits at a
desk all day and shuff1es her feet about,
and in either case her feet are bound
to grow larger. not only in length, but
in width Also say the shoe men.
~ oman s. INVASION OF the CONNER
cial world" said one Of these qualified
experts. undoubtedly resulted in her
feet growing larger. That is the gen.
orally accepted explanation Of the fact
among shoe men. IT is entirely logical.
1t is not so long ago that women went
about with mincing steps and walked
as If on air. Their feet were small and
pretty when in a good shoe.
Things are different now. Listen to
some of the women walk along the
e-A,- rhaiv 1t h. ~
solidly, like those of a man, and If you
did not look you could not tell whether
the footballs were those of a man or
a woman. Having gone into business
on a large scale. women must have
business shoes. The dainty things they
used to wear wouldn't last week now.
The day of the LA or 1AA shoe is gone.
Lots Of women could wear them few
years ago. Some can do it yet. but
they are comparatively few.
you may remember there was q time
when every woman'S shoe was honestly
marked with its size. That is not so
long ago. Then women's feet began to
get larger. A woman who used to wear
a No. 2 shoe wouldn't take a No. 3, no
matter how comfortably 1t might fit
That drove us to marking the shoes
with secret code. We had to do that
to sell a shoe that fitted and not the
size that was wanted. New York
Herald.
Rare Red RattlesDake.
DR.. Charles H. Townsend, who has |
been exploring the country around |
Cape ST. Lucas in Lower California. |
sent to the Bronx zoo two baskets |
which aroused considerable interest. |
One contained so asso rted specimens of |
wonderful hued lizards, including a /
slim fawn-colored reptile that utters a /
mournful cry when its tail Is pulled. |
The second basket contained an assert |
ment of squirming snakes, including a
red RATHER.
The RATHER. which is more than six
feet long and has Is fine rattles, is of
a delicate rosewood color, and accord
ing to Curator Ditnnars, is the first red |
snake that has ever been seen in New
York city-that is, in a zoo.
DIR. Townsend, who is the superin-
tendent of the aquarium and a director
of the American Museum of Natural
has sent several specimens to
New York since he has been out on the
Pacific coast. including the six famous
sea elephants now at the aquarium, !
who have to be fed by hand on sea |
urchins stewed in milk to keep them |
York Times