Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — American Feet Are Growing. [ARTICLE]

American Feet Are Growing.

It is a fact that the feet of American women are growing larger! Devotion to athletic exercise is the cause, and some one is daring enough to say that the dainty, delicate, little Cinderella feet that find ample room in No. 1 and No. 2 slippers will be unknown twenty years from now. Any exercise that keeps oue on the feet for any great length of time will surely broaden and flatten the foot, and a year’s steady course in a gymnasium will show a remarkable increase in the size of the feet