Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1883-12-08 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

HIGH HEELS. Since the high heel made its appearance medical men have more than once borne witness to its bad effects. The late Mr. Hilton condemned it. Others have done the seine. Of late years public opinion has done away with eertain of the long-established extravagance of dress, and has given rise to methods more agreeable to the symmetrical development of the body. We hope that in the process of refJrM, the feet, in which too often vanity pays a price which is dangerously expensive, will not escape note. The evils of the high heeled boot or shoe are due to the fact that it is an essentially badly fitting article. It is made in defiance of the relation which it ought to bear to the anatomy of the foot, and to the direction in which the pressure of the body weight falls upon the latter. Hence the peculiarly oramptd walk of lathes of the present day. Anyone may observe the consequences of the "advanced position," nearly under the instep, and the increased height of heel, in the substitution of a forward inclination of the body, and a trip suggestive in a measure of the stumbling gait, for the upright carriage, and the free and graceful swinging movement natural to the leg in walking. These matters as far as they are merely relative to deportment do not strictly concern us, but there are attendant circumstances which deserve comment. The bort or shoe in order that it may not shift on the foot which has lost much of its usual purchase of direct downward pressure, must hold it firmly and even tightly, and in particular it is necessarily constructed so as to hold with undue firmness just above the back of the heel. With some persons, perhaps, no inconvenience results, with others, who have fine shins, cLafing is readily produced. This is in itself a trifle, and is presumably altogether too inconsiderable to affect the will of fashion, but it may nevertheless be the slight beginning of graver troubles. Probably there is no practitioner fairly long acquainted with town practice who cannot recall a case or cases in which extensive inflammation of the leg with abscess formation has followed even such a slight abrasion, and the exciting cause when looked for was found in the patient's shoe. There have even been instances, fortunately rare, but still occasional, where abscesses arising round some neglected trifle of this kind have ended fatally. These are facts which cannot be denied, and should not be overlooked; but even if they Gould, is there any woman with a mind of her own who will say that the dainty step so mush desired by some, bought as it is at the cost of healthy muscular excercise is not overvalued? We rather hope that the honest feeling and the sound judgment which have guided that sex in many better purposes, will ultimately overcome the false sentiment which now leads certain of its members to support an unbecoming and injurious custom.—Lancet.  Faux. Finu.—A fire occarrel this Thursday morning in a house at Glasgow, the roof being burned off. After the dames were extinguished the firemen discovered the charred remains of an old unmarried woman named Eliza Barnes lying in the middle of the floor. At Dublin Assizes, James Eigkan is indicted for the murder of Policeman Croby, at Rochford Bridge, Westmeath. on the 13th October. Deceased was a sergeant in the constabulary, and was married on the day in question, and it was about ten o'clock the same night when, with his bride, he was walking outside his mother-in-law's house, the wedding festivities going on inside, prisoner came up and deliberately stabbed him, death resulting two days afterwards. A defence of insanity was set up. MICEDICINES, Elastic 84aelolap , Chemical* of every kind per parcels poet promptly.' Itay Bros., Btockport.