Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-20

Philadelphia, Baltimore and the cotton
rich south Observation-Disclosures repre-
scented mountain paradise between
clouds and chestnut forests, where the
eagle scared round the silent peaks at
noon. They remembered the hand
some, picturesque Basque people: the
high-spiced savory cooking, the mag
nificent horses, sure-foOted on the edge
of precipices; the dancing to guitar
and castanets by moonlight; the
guides torchlight cavalcade 70 crack
ing whips. under stars as big as din
ner plates, high up, high up sewed on
the velvet night.
Such Lucnon has remained for Parish
ans. plus the famous hot sulphur
springs, and the reliable OLD COM
plexton cure for beauty.
AS fashionable resort 1t became
rather the rendezvous Of rich families
of Marseilie and Toulouse. Six years
ago I found Luchon an idyllic place
of rest. almost old fashioned. But
you know Of the rush to the French
Alps ard Pyrenees. The exclusion of
AUTOMOBILES rom Switzerland helped
rot to mention the dizzy mountain
roads which the French have joined to-
gether in glacier-edged circuits.
Switzerland has nothing equal to them.
You can dash from flowers to ice and
back three times IL a single day. Then
new variant Of the old complexion
cure.
August 18th last l counted twelve
chemin-de-ter baccara, tables operat-
ing simultaneously at the casino The
palatial hotels did the rest.
1 say, for beautiful feet Yes, more
than you might think. This small city in
the Pyrenees mountains claims that its
own women possess ideal feet. Half the
true barefoot buds OF Paris spent their
vacations at I-uchon for years past.
Come, now, see the maturer beauties
traipsing in the dew. Their feet are not
always fit for publication-let us say.
rather private circulation. But every
day adds charm You understand. an up
to-date woman must have pretty foot
nowadays.
Luchon has mayor eishty-two years
old. Monsieur Pierre Latapie-who him
self has beautiful feet-SiveS the simple
explanation that Luchon women walk ii,
mountain dew, which bestows upon their
feet unusual whiteness, while muscles
and ligamentS develop free ard uniform.
THE women of Luchon always had
beautiful feet" says the vigorous and
v.rtuous man of eighty-two, whose father
died at 104. and whose ancestors have
been in this valley ever since the
brieandS of Sertorius were permitted by
Pompey to emigrate with their fiocks to
the high basin of the Garonne-thiS ac-
cOrding to ST. Jerome.
They always had beautiful feet, he
says, but as We were used to it, We paid
no attention. We took our women'S feet
for granted and resented the admiration
Of strangers. One day an elegant Paris
mother, with a girl of twelve beside her.
asked me how it came that even our hay
making girls, coming in with the oxen
had feet fit for a queen. | told her. in
my opinion, it was chiefly heredity-our
people have a great deal of race ard
there have been few marriages with out
siders. Also, l told her that ever since
l could remember, the women Of Luchon
have walked barefoot spring, summer
and autumn. Even Well-to-do bourgeoises
and women of title go barefoot. say, dur
ing third of the day, in their parks and
gardens. 1t is, our belief that it is
healthy"
The Paris mother took the mayors adj
vice. The next day her child was run
ming barefoot in the Allees d Etigny: and
later he saw the mother herself treading
the route to Spain without shoes or
stockings. He never inquired further, but
attributes great results to that CONVEX
sation, because the lady returned next
season, bringing others with her.
And today he concluded, hundreds
of fashionable women barefoot in
the cure de terrain tearth cure Walks)
in spring. summer and autumn. The
more reserved prefer September and Oc-
tOber, sweet, soft, mellow months in the