Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-08-17
Few Girls Have Perfect Feet.

Scuehor College, Baltimore, have per-
feet feet, according to DIR. Lillian Welsh
VINO regards the tendency of modern
women 10 pinch their feet as the log
ieai successor of the tendency their
mothers have to pinch their waists.
women must pinch something" DR..
welsh declares. Every part of the
human anatomy which can be pinched
or pierced has been subjected 10 this
KIND OF torture. Some savage races
pierce the nose and women wear rings
through them. Some cut holes in their
upper lips and wear decorations there.
in certain countries pointed heads
are the admiration of all corners and
when child is born its head is firm
, iy placed between two boards until il
grows up to the proper peak. Other
tribes consider fiat heads mark of
beauty and newborn babies. have
weights placed on their heads to get
the proper savage contour. Ii remains
Tor the fashionable woman of TODAY
10 pierce her ears and hang gewgaws
from them.
when college girls first came un-
der my observation they pinched their
waists. Before she was presentable
from her point of view, a girl would
adjust her corsets, tie the laces to the
bedposts and walk away until her
waist was a perfect Is. | have seen
thousands of women who laced them
selves in this way and can remember
very few who admitted it hurt
AT that time physicians used to say
1t was rare to find in the hospital dis
secting room female body whose
liver was normally placed. quoted
the remark to a woman once and her
reply was, We'll | don't care. Pm
more interested in what look like
when I'm alive than what the doctors
Will think of my liver after Pm dead
That's the same principle modern
girls apply to their feet. They spend
hours and hours on their fineernails
They soak them in tepid water, they
cut away the skin until the moons
show and they file them until you can
see your face in them. That's all very
well, but you should see their toe
nails" DR.. Welsh spread the palms
OF her hands to the sky and made a
gesture truly Gallo in expresiveness.
at is terrible to think of those toe
nails she went on. "They grow this
way or that way, all awry on twiste d
toes that are full of corns. Instead
of being trimmed, they are cut any Old
way, just SO they are cut. OF course,
it doesn't make any difference whether
you cut them straight across or round
them off, so far as that's concerned,
but the way most girls toenails lo,k
is awful!
at isn't mans brains which give
him his superiority over all other ami
mails. It's his ability to walk on his
feet and have his hands free. 1t took
cons to develop the human foot and
no one ought to abuse it. The natur-
al way to walk is on all fours AMI in
rearing himself up So he can use the
phalanges for other things he accom-
plished a feat which enabled him to
rule the world
"No one makes shoes to fit the hui
man foot. Several years ago one of
the most eminent surgeons in this
city designed shoes to give maximum
of comfort. They were designed es.
pecially for nurses and women who
had to be on their feet a great deal.
| recommended them to my students
and urged them to wear them at least
when they were not on parade, but af-
ter a while they began to tell me
these shoes could not be had.
81 went to the store where they were
made and inquired the reason and
learned what | had suspected that
they had stopped making them be-
cause women wouldn't buy them.
Sometimes ! think it wonder we
don't cut off the little toes when ba-
bies are born. There are no shoes
made to provide room for Them
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