Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-29

ones are i'll. You see | am referring
to those overworked little friends of
yours that most folk call your feet.
\ take it for granted that they are
,ovcrworked because most women who
! do nous. work are very inconsiderate,
perhaps bit ignorant, too. of the de-
mands on their pedal cXtremitics.
! In a very smart lunch and tea room
I in the most fashionable shopping sec
I ton Of New York City the mattresses
all wear white shoes of the sort known
as sport shoes" They are fiat and
| broad of heel and have rubber soleS.
You have no idea how well shod these
young women appeared. There is none
of the usual over at the heel, out at
! the big toe joint appearance that one
usually sees with women who perform
the arduous task of waiting on tables
| for many hours A day. The girls
walked and stood gracefully A tennis
player could not have been more sup
| pie in her movements than was one
young girl who waited on my table.
And this gave me the idea that won-
en- who spend much time at household
tasks that require much the same play
of muscles as does the task of waiting
on table would be much better of il
they, too wore some similar, pliable
but substantial, low hcelcd shoe for
their task,
| | know every woman who is not
used to this. kind of footgear feels
quite sure when she tries it for the
first time that her foot is not adapted
| IN Sho Thinks that hpr c
too high. or her arch too shapely. But
this is simply because the lowheeled
shoe of the sport type calls into play
a different set of muscles from the
usual sort of shoe and it is only while
these new muscles are getting used
to their work that any discomfort is
felt. And the idea that wearing a fiat
heeled shoe when one is accustomed
to high heeled shoe will cause falling
of the arch, is a pretty little myth, so
a physical culture expert assures us,
invented by the dainty little women
who prefer the graceful though rather
distorted lines of the high heel to the
more masculine lines of the sport
shoe.
| Another thing that | would suggest
for the woman who dubs herself
housewife and that is the custom OF
wearing white cotton or Isle stockings
when doing homework. They are
cooler in the first place, and, having
no dye, they do not tend to irritate
the skin Of the feet, They should be
of good length, as leaning down and
bending gives a good deal of strain
at the knees and a stocking must be
long not to pull out in Jacobs lad
ders" when frequent strain comes in
one place.
Needless to say, the housewife
should always battle her feet at the
close of every days task. The morn
ing bath is best, perhaps, for the wo-
man who goes out to work-the teach
err stenographer or saleswoman. But
for the busy woman who stays at
home, there is less time at dawn or
rising time for a bath than at any
other time of the day, for it is usually
her task to see to the getting of break
fast. After the tasks are done. say
about or 5 in the afternoon, is the
best time Of all for the housewives
daily plunge. and the woman who so
manages her time that she can thus
refresh herself at the end Of every
DAVIS work will find far less discomfort
in Homework than the woman who lets
work encroach on these Personal
icomforts.
Use strong soda water with plenty