Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-05
Beauty Secrets
How TO Take Care Of Feet in The
Summer.
by NINE. LIMA CAvALIBRI.

HIVE you heard that tender feet
make one old?
IT is true. but. like most unpleasant
truths. this can be modified. Let mo
relieve your mind at once by saying
that naturally tender feet never made
any old. 1t is the artiiicially
acquired tenderness of the feet that
makes for short life.
We are born with feet adapted 10
carrying our weight and to doing all
the walking that IN necessary. They
are ready for all the ordinary usnges
of life. but they are not ready. and
never will be. for the extraordinary
demands of the fashionable tight shoe.
IL you are slender woman. or
bony one, you can wear the kind Of
shoe tho average dealer makes. II
You are plump, you Will suffer from
those shoes as you would II your foot
were in wise. Tho Chinese women of
high rank suffer but little more than
the fashionable women OF this country
In the matter Of foot torture
| Comfort W.. beauty.
the problem or how to wear shoes
| that make the feet comfortable and
yet look trim In one that many have
tried to solve. Pending its solution
| let me advise that when you must
| choose between comfort and beauty
for the feet, choose comfort Long
ago some one invented the ndaEc that
we must suffer to be beautifui; but
we must not suffer IL we would re.
main young. Suffering is ageIng. And
nothing makes US suffer more than
| foot torture.
The steady ache of tired or tor
mented feet causes WEAKNESS and loss
| of vitality, sometimes actual Illness
| / know girl who In her siXteen-year-
| old vanity bough, pair OF ahoes
that made her feet look small" In
n hnlf-hour after che put the shoes on
her feet began to swell The ,r,rl
tried to take the shoes OF. hut tho
swelling was so great she could moi,
For three days she hobblcd about In
| those shoes and slept I'm them at night
At iaat her relatives had to chi ON
the shoes. The girl was III tor A
| week.
Should Care for Feet.
| Another reason why the feet Tint
have been made tender by misuse
produce old age before it's time 10
| TINT we all shrink from exercise whom
our feet hurt ua. Lack of cycrri.n
produces long train OF evils Chronir
indigestion, paralysis. apoplcxy, fatty
degeneration often are the penalty ex-
acted by nature for lack Of exercise
There lis no reason. except vanity
| why the feet should not be an frco
from pain and distortion ms tho hand.
The GUNNER In tho most trying timo
Tor tho feet. EVEN perfect feet, ueye,
distorted by tight shoes. arc incllned
to sWeil In the summer. and incline 70
one OF tho extremes. n hot. dry skin
VI excessive moisture. and to bccoms
exceedingly tender
To correct these conditions DO eve,
more careful of the feet In tho sum.
mer than the winter.
bath Twice Dnily.
The feet should he bathed once .
day In the winter. In the summer tho,
should have two daily baths. one ir
tho morning and once in the evening
The evening bath should be tepid, and
IL the feet be tender. teaspoonfu
OF horax may be added to quar-
OF water. Let tho borax dissolve, the,
battle the feet In tho water. II the,
are unusually tender be not sntisfle,
with the ordinary bath Of the fee,
but soak them. II necessary. add oc
caeionnl1y n pitcher of hot water L
keep the bath tepid.
In the morning, whom the feet ar
, less tender. and tho need Of sooth
ing Is less. tho hath may be cooler
II may even, II the person is youn,
. and vigorous. as young and vigorou
~ Wonderful walking Weston. VIII