The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-21
HOW A NICE KIND LADY CARES FOR
 HER DOGS

McGill medical professor recently told physi- clans in medical convention that
 CD If people would using their hands to protect themselves when falling, there would be fewer broken wrists (Colle's fracture) and collar bones (clavicle).
 CD woman often sprains but never frac- lures her ankle (Potts fracture) by wearing high heels.
 Girls who are ambitious to rise in the world will hail this assurance with delight. Finally the Canadian savant asserted that
 port of their feet (Morton's neuralgia or affec-
 tion, fattening of transverse arch, tight shoe cramp), they escape the curse Of Hat teet
 This third aphorism seems to rankle one of
 our readers. who submits clipping of it with
 the typed notation-"Not according to Doctor
 Brady. Can't doctors agree on anything?" Yes we can. Here and now I revise, reneg and revamp anything may have said to the eff
 feet that high heels cause flat feet. Come to think about it. fear this doctor may be right-all the bad of flat feet can recollect were In men. can't recall single woman suffering from flat
 feet But I have treated many young women for
 pronated feet. rather girls in their 'teens and cases to treat.
 Pronated feet are feet that roll in turn in at the ankles, and this condition is familiar enough among young girls who are permitted to wear narrow high heels when they should wear speak of, for health, fracefulness and normal de- velopment.
 Every parent that has any at all has
 observed precocious happers with their French tion for the silly child to endure; it is just as painful for the sensible parent to observe. This pronation sagging in at the ankles is properly regarded the. first functional stage of flat
 foot. Only when the deformity becomes perman- ent from malformation of the bones and liga-
 ments, is it called anatomical, rigid or incurable fatfoot.
 French heels are all right. Every girl over 16 is entitled to pair in her armamentarum, for heavy dates or full dress occasions. If the girl exercises fair degree of sense about putting em
 on and taking 'em off. they will not harm her faa hnr infn housemaid habit of wearing them habitualy, her
 feet will presently become just dogs and miser- able dogs at that. Besides girl has man. aged to be quite graceful such stts. Walking your toes (barefoot toeing in a bit. is of the finest exercises to prevent and to cure pronated feet, tired feet weak feet and in degree French heels make you walk your toe only this toe-walking is mostly make be- lieve, for the chatter of such heels loudly pro- claims that the walker is not walking her toes at all.
 No question but that very high, very narrow | heels with the narrow toes such footwear in variably has, are responsible for most of the painful cramping (Moreton's neuralgia) in the
 forefoot. which women suffer twenty times as frequently do men.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Corn Remedy Saves Money Your remover worked wonders and saved
 me $s12.0O Cor maybe 1t Is $12OO or $2.O0) per
 month. l read your articles every night-could
 scarcely go to bed if missed an issue. (McC. M. J)
 Answer-Whjcn suggests the organization of
 
 name-We could get up some imposing an- nouncements telling the suckers what they could buy with the money saved. The corn re- mover is an ancient formula, commonly known to pharmacists salicylated collodon, and list ed in the National Formulary. It consists of 30
 grains of salicylic acid in half an ounce of fex- ible collodon. Paint coating corn, wart or calus each night for week or two. If you are
 pleased with the results all right If not try and get your money back! If the liquid gums and | hardens in the vial. don't blame me The ether In the collodion has way of evaporating. May Lila yntt m M a bit of ether to the mess to restore 1t to pristine
 effectiveness.