Evening star., 1936-12-19
Low Heeled
Shoes Best
ForWalking
Young Feet Be Sen.
sibly Shod I'M
portant.
BY ANGELO PATRI.

1
1OUR grandmothers used to tell us
" to let our heads save our heels.
thought of that few days ago
when I watched what was almost
tragedy on one of the streets OF the
city.
The car l was riding in stopped
at the signal light. A fine looking
girl, about Is or II, started across
the street. She had her dog in her
arms, the better to insure his safety,
although he was on a leash. AS she
neared the curb car came rather
swiftly around the corner and she
felt tha. she must hurry. Unfortu-
nately she was wearing shoes with
high, wobbly heels, and as she speeded
| her walk into what was almost run,
the heels turned this way and that
and it seemed as if she must fall
under the wheels of the approaching
car.
She was no chicken-hearted child,
this. She saw her danger, and gave
the last effort she had to save the
little dog. STOPPING as she went, she
swung the little creature in her arms
and tossed him to safety and as she
did so, q smart young man who had
come behind her, swung her out OF
harms way. AS she and the dog and
the casual young man disappeared in
the street crowds I hoped that she
would, in the future, allow her head
to save her heels, and her heels to
save her head.
We are all very anxious about the
safety of all who go up and down
the highways and cross the narrow
ways of the cities and towns upon
their daily occasions. We time lights
to the split second, we set up signs
and then more signs. We have safety
campaigns and every now and then,
town meeting, all in the hope Of
saving life and limb. All this is good,
but there is more to be done, perhaps
the most important phase of the
safety question. People, old and
young, must be trained, taught, prac-
ticed in making their heads save
their heels.
Girls and women should wear easy
fitting shoes when they walk about
the streets and save the high heels
for dress occasions in the house. A
properly fitting shoe gives support to
the body and allows the easy, swing
ing stride that makes for sureness
and speed Blind hurry crossing the
streets is an almost certain way to
an accident. Add to the hurry a pair
of unmanageable heels and only a
miracle will avoid the disastrous end.
Too many of us are being killed
on the roads and the streets of the
country. A machine has no brains.
1t must obey the mind that directs
1t. But-and this must be accepted
by the pedestrians-unless the driv-
er's mind meets with intelligent CO.
operation from the pedestrians mind,
| the mindless machine does its terrible
work.
It is all vey well to say that
pedestrian has the right of way. He
has. But that fact is rather bare OF
comfort when the pedestrian Is
stretched on his bed of pain in the
hospital. Do let us try to have our
heads save our heels, and, just to even
things up, allow our heels to save our
heads. Do let us try to help pre-
serve our safety and the safety OF
others by cooperating cheerfully with
the drivers, with the traffic officers,
and the people Of the communities
through which we ride. After all
this is for our own sake. And next
time, when daughter goes out to walk
the dog give q glance at the shoes she
Ia wearing.
(Copyrlght. 1850