Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1881 — Woman’s Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Woman’s Shoes.

It has sometimes seemed as if horses were as badly shod as could be, but women are even worse shod at the present day. Many years ago the school-books used to 'contain illustrations of the' 1 feet and shoes of the Chinese ladies, which furnished an unfailing souroe of mirth and ridicule to the American youth. Now fashionable women in this country wear a very similar style of shoe, with its elevated heel under the middle of the foot and its pinched toe. Our esteemed contemporv, the New York Times , says that sensible women would be very glad to wear shoes of a different patera, but they are not to be found at the shoe stores, nor is it easy to get them made to order. Perhaps in time it will come to walking about on stilts—which the fashionable heels of the day approach in altitude. There is one thing about it; if girls think small calves becoming, they are sure to get them by wearing highheeled shoes. How little women realise the draught upon their symmetry and beauty which these high heels make! If they did realise it, no woman in the country would have one on a week from to-day.-r York Ledger.