Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1880 — High-Heeled Shoes. [ARTICLE]

High-Heeled Shoes.

A young lady here went one day to an oculist with a trouble with her eyes that threatened frightful results. She was already in a state where reading was out of the question and other entertainment was fast becoming a torment. The oculist looked' at her with his professional wisdom, a iked her various questions, and then suddenly amazed her by asking her to put out her foot. The foot in its kid boot with a wicked little high heel was thrust forth. The doctor eyed it a moment with a stolid face. “Go home," he said, “ and take oft those heels; keep them off tor a month, and then come to me again, and we’ll see how the eyes are!" In a month the eyes were well, and the young lady learned by her experience, and little wise talk how near she had come to having no eyes at all. Itserves to show that there to the possibility that with that instrument of torture constantly at work in the center of the foot, where so many delicate nerves and tendons lie that are so intimately connected with all the other delicate nerves of the body, there must presently come disarrangements and disease that may work fatal mischief with the health.