South Bend News-Times, Volume 38, Number 72, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 13 March 1921 — Page 8

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Higli and Most Improper," Declare

1 OO By Ethel T TIG rmistle Ellccd ofT! jJ This is the tdict contained In a bill proposed in practically very state LcgrisInture in the country and the reform guillotina itanda ready to do tha dehselirr. The pos3yfootfalls of tho reformers can be easily heard in the corridors of every capitol from California to Maine, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. As the artist haa pictured It on this page, it v.ill soon be in order for Miss America to lay a i ilk-cncaped le across a cushioned lawhorse and Eubmit her skyscraper heels to the merciless enforcement of tho mandate of a, court of law. "We don't want to ba reformed," wailed the drinkers, public and private, when the man with the undertaker tio, stovenlpe hat, funeral carb r.d begy umbrella, suggested prohibition. "We don't want our heels cut oft," wail tha pretty girU and their equally girlish mothers, vainly seeking to bido them beneath the fashionably short ekirt. Propagandists Aro at Work : Hut, ca they ta'd In tho former casft, tho reformer say in the latter case; "It is a bad habit. It is injurioui, moreover. If ycu haven't inUlliffenco and will power enough to reform woll reform youl" Woll, they pasjed prohibition and the girls are beginning to worry now that the "heel" bills havo been introduced in the Legislatures of tha Elates of Waihincton, Utajü, Massachusetts and New York. A propaganda, almo as ptricral trt scops as that ipread by the exponents of dry-as-duat, i3 btinp dbmlnated. Ail sorU of dire things happen to the girl who approves the Jacking up of her hi;els for the sake of making her foot appear smaller. Broktn archfcs, nervou disorders, headachesyes, even immorality ar bound to follow tho u of high heel. At hut, thak what tha propaganda taya. 0:1 with her heelsl Unuex the proposed laws the maximum ncmarkaMc X-Ray Photo of a Woman's Foot Taken While She AYaa Wearing a Ilijrh-IIocl Shoe. Notice Ihc Shoe Nails Where the Heel of ihe Shoe Touches the Ground. i 1 ... : 1 1 v"-.

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Th urston elevation will be one and one-half inches. Any heels higher will promptly be lopped off, even though they may bev attached to shoes being worn to a gathering of the elite. Nor is it a law that may be trifled with, according to its drastic term3. It has far moro teeth than Mr. Volstead's statute in the matter of entence. A woman found puilty cr a man, for that matterof having in his or her possession a pair of the offending heels will be fined not les3 than $25 nor more than $500 and a second ofTcnse makes one liable to not less than CO days' nor more than one year's imprisonment. However, in somo of the states the bill has one extenuating feature. It won't go into effect before Jan. 1, 1925. Which gives a breathing epell a wearing spell, anyway. The sponsors cf this reform legislation say that it will giva ample opportunity to all the girls who wish to wear out their shoes in stock. A happy thought for by 60 doing they'll no doubt wear down tho heels to an attenuation within the law. The rudest jolt to the wearers of the criticised heels took plce right in the state of Washington. Tho Washington State Osteopathic Associa. tion condemned high heels as "immoral." Pressed for particulars a representative of this association said: "Immorality lies in the fact that all women who wear high-heeled shoes becomo deformed in the feet, knees and back, and are predisposed to tuberculosis. Race suicide is distinctly aided by high heels." In Massachusetts the osteopaths succeeded in introducing a bill aimed against the dizzy hecl3. .. ,. . - . ! ' 4 . .. . f . ; ; ' r -; ;' ' - ' ' ' ' t ... - . ... . - . , . . . " .., -A - VP". f ' i - t V", . ,

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Wnetner to Defy tne Proposed New Laws Against Higfh Heels or

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Fine - f T i The 2i2-Inch Heel Which Must Be Reduced by One Inch to Conform to the New Requirements. ," ;;..-.v.tvj'1 '. v .. Xt 1 j , . f : V. - , -v.. f .. ' ; -- ;x :-. V V-; --l ; 'VZ !" 5 ' : J ? v f t; v: -- The 2-Inch Heel Which Is Condemned as Being 1 4 Inches Too High. Dr. U. Kendrick Smith of Brookline, In asking concerted action on tho matter, said that the wearing of high-heeled shoes "constituted crime," although he didn't elucidate. But even if the solons in the Bay state succeed in putting over the bit of legislation it isn't going to bother one college that is situated within its confines, namely, Wellesley. Ths students there tabooed high heels long ago. An investigator, questioning Miss Margaret W. Haddock, president of the Student Government Association, was answered with a demonstration. She arembled some of the Etudents on the campu. Up went 376 shapely feet; up went 37C "other" feet. And not a shoe had a heel that was thicker than one and onequarter inches! A quarter of an inch this skit of the law. To Protect tho Perfect Foot From the artistic point of view the passage cf the law agair.n the wearing of the high heel wculd, if its enemies are truthful, be a rood thing. The interesting X-ray photos on this page reveal how the high heel cramps the bones of the feet into deformity. It clearly shows the tarsal, the metatarsal and the phalanges bones pushed cut of their natural places. And, even though, as the advocates cf high heels insist, this condition does not cause backache, nervous disorders and other ills of the body, the displacement of the framework of the foot does affect its shape. And that should not be for no less an authority than Nikolas Schottenstein, wearer of the order VTrpr,P-f rrtt:?r rr!c. 1921.

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of Franz Joseph for morit in art, says the American girl has tho prcttlrst foot in tho world. Says this artist: "The American girl has the most perfect feet In the world, and nowhere have I seen such feet, so well shaped, so gracefully used, so neatly and Attractively shod." But from what the exponents of the anti-high heel legislation say if high heels are worn much longer the American girl's feet will be as raisfhapen as those of the celestials. Interesting, Indeed, is tho explanation given ÄS to the various ways in which high heels causa injuries. The first one is merely a matter of balance. The shoeless foot supports the weight of the body at three'pointu, under tho big and littla toes, on the so-called ball of the foot, and directly in the centre of the heel. Faulty foot posture, caused by high heels, distributes this support disproportionately and the result, after a time, Is the straining of the over-taxed muscles and tendons and the atrophy of those that are not called on to do their natural tasks. The result is tho misshapen foot which causes, it is alleged, r.;l forts of bodily ills, and often bringi about nervous disorders. An expert has figured out just what tilting np the heel means. A heel three-quarters of an inch high lifts tho foot enough lo throw the body rAno nenes off its natural vertical line. This ri compels an outlay of 5G pounds t energy to straierhten n n-i walk the way nature intended, this expert say?. Another result of high heeb, they assrrt, is a large ar.kla. "Beef to the heels" may be de-! Teloped through the abuse of elevating one's heels. This is caused by the swelling and twisting a the muscles and

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ligs.mer.ts cf the ankle as they are called on to perform new cr more difficult tak3. J. Madison Taylor, A. II., M. D., in an articl cn "The Significance of Foot Troubles and Deformities," published in the New York Medical Journal, says: "Women who have a right conception cf ths fitness of things, who appreciate their appear. ar.ee, will think twice before acquiring a hobbling gait inevitable in one; whose feet have bssome so ruined they are no Icr.ger capable of walking gracefully. In the young the foot U

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