Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-03-26
WEAR SHOES THAT FIT
PROPER FOOTWEAR IS OF THE
UTMOST IMPORTANCE.
nBeauty Ills" lnnumerabIe Spring
From Disregard of This Very I'm
portant Matter-For Grace
full Carriage.

Did 1t ever occur to you that the
kind of shoes you wear have great
deal to do with your beauty ills?" A
successful specialist in the treatment
of facial defects recently made the
positive statement that ill-ftting and
ill-shaped shoes were frequent cause
for the deep lines so often seen on
women's faces. He also said that
these lines were among the most diff
ficult to treat.
This does not seem 80 foolish upon
second thought as it does at first.
Did you ever try to walk when your
feet hurt you? Perhaps the hurt was
caused by a tiny corn upon your
smallest toe, but it wrinkled your face
up into all kinds of lines that were
unbeautiful, to say the least. If the
pain were to spread all through your
feet, as is the case when the feet are
cramped out Of shape by tight or i'll
shaped shoes, you can readily see why
the lines would become more marked
and would gradually deepen until they
were very hard to smooth out.
Ill-ftting shoes are also responsible
for some very troublesome wrinkles in
the disposition, and these are always
reflected in the face. One can go even
farther and say with perfect truth that
the health suffers even in greater pro-
portion from having ones feet cramp-
ed out of their normal shape.
The nerves of the feet are more
sensitive than the nerves In the
hands, and when we encase the feet
in shoes which prevent all the normal
and natural action Of the various
bones and ligaments and muscles
tended by nature to give elasticity to
the walk and support the weight of the
body with ease-we are guilty of real
cruelty to ourselves. The pressure
causes acute suffering of the feet. and
this reacts upon the entire nervous
system.
When the back begins to pain and
The head to ache; when the eyes feel
strained; when neuralgia or sciatica
or some other of the many ills we
struggle under come to stay with us
for awhile; when an ugly frown be-
tween the brows becomes ha.itual and
fretful lines form around the corners
of the mouth, we never think for a
moment that any or all of these trou-
bles may be due to our abuse Of our
feet.
The shoe should conform to the lines
of the natural foot, and should be
large enough to permit the free action
of the bones and ligaments. A pretty
foot is not possible when it's owner Is
foolish enough to compress 1t in a
shoe with high heels and mar
row toes.
Then, too, graceful carriage Of the
body is not possible when the feet are
improperly clad. The weight should
be carried on the balls Of the feet,
and only in this way can the springy
and elastic step become habitual. A
French heeled shoe, or a shoe with a
high military heel, prevent effectually
all grace Of movement in walking.
We must correct the abuses which
we have ignorantly permitted in our
care, or rather lack of care, for our
feet, and then we will gain in health
and comfort, and will also gain better
results from our creams and lotions
and wrinkle plasters which we are as
siduously using to beautify our faces.
Copyright, 1918. by Universal Press Syn
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