Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1886 — Points About Feet. [ARTICLE]

Points About Feet.

I don’t believe that it is when a woman has a small foot that she wants to show it just a little. lam open to serious correction, hut there seems to be quite a satisfaction to a woman in knowing that she has a" pretty foot, and a woman has a way anyhow of believing everybody knows what she -knows unless it be a secret. Then she never believes that anybody else knows even if she’s told it them a dozen times. But when a woman has a small foot and lias had it all her life, and known ft and been told about it for twenty years—l beg pardon, no lady is ever over that age, say ten years—-she gets so accustomed to it that it ceases to be a piece even of her vanity. It’s the woman with the long foot and the high instep that wants to show them. The high instep sometimes goes before a fall, and that’s why people with high insteps are always said to have plenty of pride. When a woman has succeeded in pinching, a big foot into a very small shoe she does not propose that all that trouble is to be gone to and all that agony suffered for nothing. So she always makes a point of having it displayed somehow. I beg pardon of the ladies for thus drawing attention to something I have no business with. I think the rudest thing I ever heard of was what one of the papers said about Mrs. Langtry, that after one of her scenes several of the ladies threw flowers at her feet. Mobbing her was all very well, but throwing flowers at her feet was carrying things too far and an outrage. Did you ever see a woman try on a pair of shoes ? You have! Then you’re either married or engaged in a shoe store, I hope.She had a lovely foot, and her visitors were admiring it. They were ladies. of course. A man who is not a - shoemaker dares not mention such a thing unless they are alone in a dim corner of the drawing-room where nobody can overbear. “What a beautiful foot you have, dear.” * “Yes; pa says when we go to Europe he’ll have a bust of it made.” Song!— San Francisco Chronicle.