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And the good Nokomis answered: All the wildflowers of the forest All the lilies of the prairie When on earth they fade and perish Blossom in the heaven above us" — From "The fil ' iti‘kfli'V14014:11 V " 'Tis the heaven of flowers ir e 'I' '1 4 7i t Ir ' t 1' t ''I14 I f Si r ' 1' ' i i V'' el ‘ ' et i3'gt " ('i ce sundel 1000111000wommook ' t - ' -- sr 4 Ailif 'JA ' 11":114' I 0 4 : I7 btstor 11 ' "h 7" m 0 - : 0 t7k ' '41 (5 e - 'o6 1 '- TEMINEMIIMPIINIMICEE - 0 - It 411 I - '''' - - A- - I L' - : ig I U11 '''11- t :-- 7''' C -I- IIIUll A I n- - ' la t rm t ft a iv ' s'-- "'' ' ' - 4- t -:'' - -- - ''''''7e'''''A-- t -' - 4 or ' - ''''''''!4'Atli g' Ora '1:4 '' ''‘'''"It 'to 21P-' 34 ° 'A ' ' 'r ' Tribune Staff Photos by Rick Egan Design by Rhonda Holies I - Women are shorter but look down on men shorter than she used and my feet hurt My wife is to be Fashion is the reason in both cases Women's dress shoes are becoming more humane and men's are as vicious as ever shoes — Stubby little short-heeleshoes that aren't very high — have come into fashion for women The women I know are tickled And I'm happy for them but it is odd to suddenly be living in a world of shorter women The tall spike heel once common on a wide variety of feminine feet is apparently popular today mostly with short bookers trying to look leggy I'm glad other women have given up the spike heel because it always made me nervous hanging out with women who teetered They couldn't walk on sidewalks with grates in them And they tended to get sti-c- k in wet lawns But my female friends today are wearing shorter heels And some are wearing fiats part of the time My wife for instance When we met she was only about 2 inches shorter than am Today she's 4 d high-heele- inches shorter I loom large in her life than I used to I have long wondered when women would finally rebel against this society's d Bill hall' Asoulsessuransmisri - Lordd- - - equivalent of the old Chinese practice of binding women's feet As a child I rememas a teacher told us ber sitting pop-eyethat there had once been a Chinese culture so cruel that it bound and stunted the feet of women leaving them hobbling ineptly and painfully about for the rest of their days On reflection it seems odd I didn't no d : tice that the teacher who told me that was heels herself hobbling about on which made her feet hurt her legs throb and her back ache She was also in pain And her tortured feet left her incapable of racing around the schoolyard at recess like a normal person The rebellion against that sort of thing is well under way Not only are heels shrinking — and our wives along with them — but it has become common especially in the larger cities for women to wear comfy shoes on the way to and from work and to carry their foot binders in a bag putting them on only when they get to the office And of course some women have now gone all the way wearing flats at the ofi ice as well The world grows saner But not yet for men I read this week that men in large cities are starting to follow the female lead Men are wearing tennis shoes to work and carrying their dress shoes in a bag not putting them on until they have to 0 the feeling I recently spent some vacation time tramping around a large city I wore a pair of walking shoes soft foamy shoes designed specifically for brisk walking for turning walking into an exercise In other words they're a jogging shoe built for a different gait and mostly to pander to a fad But whatever the trendy excuse for their construction they are a friendly ally for your feet in the war with concrete cities Even if you don't jog or do any power walking you should buy a pair of these It feels like walking on two little pillows Of course these are nothing more than high-tectenny rurriers But they aren't just for kids In fact the older you are and the creakier your legs the more you will enjoy tramping about in a pair of padded shoes But they have one drawback — appearance Not only are they little more than glorified tenny runners but they look the part And there are those especially our employers — who find white tennis shoes I know h an odd adornment to a business suit When I am tramping around some big concrete jungle on business or even just up and down the hard sidewalks of this little city there is nothing I would rather have on than my white walking pillows But fashion dictates otherwise So I wear these hard slabs of leather called dress device that hasn't shoes a cruel been improved upon in 100 years The solution is simple: Glue a walking shoe bottom to a dress shoe top We can have comfort and still remain the fashion plates we are today Continuing to wear these dress shoes makes us look stupid If we don't come up with some improvement soon women will no longer look up to us even if they are getting shorter low-tec- h Bill Hall is a columnist and editorial page writer for the Lewiston Morning Tribune Idaho a Salt Lake Tribune group newspaper A I LFL: L |