Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-07
Princess Marx's Shoe Number

story that Princess Mary, the daugh-
ter of King George of England, wore
shoes No. 7k. am tempted to
question the accuracy of the print
news at this time. But it was pub.
lished far and wide that she was try
ing to shoe her royal feet into a No.
shoe, when she really did wear
sevens and a half. have lived a
long time and had shoe-experience in
plentiful degree, but will say if
Princess Mary wears 71a women's
shoes, she certainly has firm foun-
dalton and broad understanding. I
guess there is nothing censorius in
that declaration from an old body
like me.
For some centuries Chinese females
have been devoted to small feet for
women. They are cramped very
early, so that the bones may be
pressed and packed into small COM
pass, but I'll wager their feet hurt
them while they were sacrificing to
their pride in that direction.
Those who have written about the
looks and shapes Of these compressed
Chinese women's feet, are frank to
say there is nothing to be called pref
ty about the business. And the poor
womenkind go crimping around and
about like their feet were suffering
from rheumatic pains in their joints.
But it was the mark of blue-blood,
so to speak, in China, and as the
women were kept indoors by their
l. In1 W
Of time to dress and caress their
misshapen members at their leisure.
Little feet for women has been the
pride Of the sex for unnumbered
generations, even here in America.
When grown women can wear No.
Is, their underpinning is pretty small,
but there have been a good many
grown feet Of that size. So long as
the body was slight and avordu-
pois less than hundred pounds,
those No. 1 shoes could hold up the
owner in a satisfactory manner, but
have seen small-footed women grow
fat and heavy with advancing years
and then they showed the failure to
walk gracefully in moving around.
Now, if Princess Mary should
weigh something like 200, her feet,
broad and long, could hold her in
worthy style and when she made a
step she could depend on their sure
ness. to hold her up.
Perhaps she will be fair and fat at
forty and then her big feet will do
her good service and she can feel SIZE
is a sure-footed elderly woman, AND
able to get there when she walks
abroad, and the looks Of her big feet
may not bother her, as time rolls on.
My, my, how big those feet must
have looked when she was growing
up. By the time I was thirteen my
feet were full grown and my feet felt
awkward until l grew to them, but
YOU think of sevens and a half-at
thirteen! Ouch!
They say she is like a boy in her
outdoor sports and what pleased her
brothers On that line appealed to her.
If it suits the man who is to marry
her. YOU and 1 have no complaints
to present.
We can wish her a happy married
life, all right. They tell us that Lon
don is crammed full of people to see
the wedding procession as 1t tlles
along the streets.
Like the children Of Israel in Sam
uePs time, they are hankerlng arter
kings and royalty pleases them.
Out in the Dakotas, Montana ana
contiguous states of thsee United
States, their big money crop Is
wheat. Last year in July, when the
wheat was Sin the dough" a hot Wlnd
came from the south and smashed
out the grain crop. The Wheat
plant was young and tender and be-
ing in the dough" state, the not
blast cooked it, and there was no
crop, no money and I gathered these
facts from the debate in the senate,
on a resolution appropriating laFge
sum to furnish seed to plant for the
crop Of 1922. I have seen wheat
crops killed in Georgia by a spring
freeze more than once. In the year
1849 biscuit were exceedingly scarce
with us, when a killing frost came
on the night of the 18th of April,
and the wheat plant was IN the
dough. It was a killing to be sure!
We did not raise much cotton our
selves, as my father had corn and
flour mills, and it paid him better to
raise grain. After a few days the
wheat fields were flat, stalks were
yellow and I expect they would have
burnt over Ii e dry grass if a match
had been struck in them. We had
similar experience on May LIST In the
year 1854. All the gardens We're
dead. no fruit, and no biscuit for
breakfast, or cake for Sunday, until
another year. We plowed up and re-
planted cotton and put corn on the
blighted wheat fields, but had no
money crop. Now, we are up against
it with the boil weevil, and our
southern farmers are as bad off as
the people in the Dakotas, as to crop
failures. The resolution to help the
far west contemplates a loan OF
5000 to the farmer who cannot raise
any wheat until the seed wheat is
procured from somewhere, to sow in
the fields.
I am wondering if they will loan
our boil weevil suffeher the half
of $500, to buy the medicine that
will kill the weevils and save our
cotton crops?
What About the Bonus?
It is understood that there is
big lobby of the American Legion
in the city of Washington urging
members of congress to pass the
bonus bill, which will consume So
900, 100000, without considering the
interest.
The president says he is willing, if
this amount can be raised on lux
uries. Secretary Mellon says the
treasury will be effectually crippled
if the draft is to be paid in cash.
I have placed these facts before
you and you can decide for yourself
as to the bonus, also the risk. This
bonus is for the able and hearty ex-
soldiers, and estimated at about
5000 per soldier. We are paying out
in cash today at the rate of $1,000,000
per day to take care Of the invalids
among ex-service men. They are
getting at the rate of $142 per month
right now.
This is matter for your consider
alton. 1t looks like the United States