The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-25

tuues' presented uiHlcultles Tor English
wear.
English women liked the shoe. They
had no criticism TO make OF Il. They
didn't want to change It. They changed
their feet instead
Tho only formal and official English pro-
nounoement from medical circles on the
toecuttlng fad comes from the National
Orthopedlc Hospital:
Toe cutting is not dangerous II done
by competent surgeon. Sometimes Il IA
even necessary when the toe is afflicted
by disease or has been severely injured by
too tight shoes. In our opinion, however,
II Is not JuatlGable to have the little toe
cut on merely to follow fashion"
whether IL is "justlhable" or not. wo-
men are actually doing it-just as I'm all
ages and all countries, civilized and un.
civilized, women have voluntarily under
gone fantastic tortures. mutiatIons and
distortions to make themselves more AT.
tractivo to their suitors or more pleasing
10 their own eyes
Compared with what the upper.class
women OF China have done to their feet
IOr more than three thousand years, the
iad or the ultra-modern English woman 10
cutting OF her little toes is as mild an
operation as visiting tho manicure.
The practice Of foot-bindng is widely
discouraged now in tho Chinese republic
by the majority Of its most beautiful and
aflStocrauc women. Less than 100 years
ago 1t was almost universal To-day Il IA
still practiced.
After Chinese girl baby is born into
an aristocratic home, IF the parents ara
sun advocates OF the old standards of
female beauty, she Is taken when scarcely
hDle TO toddle to an expert foot binder. At
thls age tho tendons and muscles are still
soft and the bones are not yet firmly SET
Her little toes are bent backward under
the lnslep and each foot Is tightly swathed
IN tape Dandages. From that moment on.
until she reaches full womanhood. the
bandages are never removed, except TO be
Immediately replaced by equally tight or
uShter ones. The feet are compressed and
growth is almost completely stopped The
result IS tho tiny golden llos"-the little
deiormei feet less than three inches long.
which mandarins for ages have regarded
as an exquisite and dainty mark Of femi.
nine loyeliness. An additions, result is
that the Chinese beauty" by Western
standards OF activity. IS a cripple all her
life
Extremely high heels are another In.
stance Of distortion OF natural lines In
civilized countries for the sake OF style or
beauty.
Advocates Of the toe-cuttlug fad in Eng.
land declare that because OF the shape OF
modern shoes for women the little toe ia
OF scarcely any use, and that & would
naturally disappear or become atrophied
In tho course OF time by natural evolution,
even II 10 were not ampntated.
THE little toe IS degenorating, owing
TO tlghtnttng shoes" says ono authority.
"Hnd babies born hundreds OF years hence
will not havo any little toes at ALL What
difference can it make, then, II some OF
our WOmon now, for the sake OF style and
comfort hasten natures process by call.
ing I'm the aid OF the surgeons knife?"
So, apparently IL you happen to fall In
love with an English beauty who has par.
tlcuaHy narrow and stylish feet, you
needn't be surprised, when you take hor
for day at the seashore. TO ind that you
have fallen In love with an eighttoed
Venus.