Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — It Is Healthy to Go Barefooted. [ARTICLE]

It Is Healthy to Go Barefooted.

There is a pedicure In New York whose fortune Is on the increase, It has become a fad among certain fashionable women, with unhappy homes, no children, or other diversion, to have him call on them every moraine to pedicure their toenails and otherwise beautify their feet He recently said that New York women, as a rule, have very fine feet and In most cases a little attention renders them beautiful. These women have adopted the custom of the ladles of the court of Dora Pedro, who never thought of wearing ■hoes and stockings In the family circle. In tike seclusion of their hemes they go barefooted. Their toes and ankles are decorated with ribbons and gams, and their health Is marvelous. Since they have become used to going barefooted at home they find that they never have colds or fevers. Half the evils of life are doe to confined feat.