Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1908 — A GIRL’S HEELS. [ARTICLE]

A GIRL’S HEELS.

Her Shoes Said to Be an Index to Her Character. “If you want to know whether a girl is slovenly or not, look at her heels,” said the wise woman to the young man who was contemplating matrimony. “Her gown may be pretty, her hat becoming, her neckwear trim and neat and her gloves well fitting, but if her heels are run over look out for her. Her trlmness in other respects simply denotes that she is neat spasmodically, that she will make an effort to keep things tidied and in order only when she is urged to or because she has some special provocation. But by nature she is slack. The man that marries a girl with perpetually runover heels will find her coming to the breakfast table as soon as the honeymoon is over in a tumbled kimono and with her hair in curl papers. She never will be a good housekeeper. “On the other hand, I’ve seen girls who maybe did not have such a trim uppenrnnee, whose hair was apt to be a little flying, but whose heels rested firmly on the ground, and never did I discover they were in the slovenly class. Maybe they were not careful enough of outward appearances, but they kept their buttons sewed on, rips repaired, spots sponged off and their rooms in immaculate order.”