Salt Lake Herald | 1893-12-10 | Page 2 | Beauty of the Foot

BEAUTY OF TIlE FOOT Sarony Dilates on the Perfect Form of tho Pedal Extremity > How beautiful is the human foot when properly formed according to Gods own plan and hot according to the shoemakers the artist Sarony exclaimed the other day as he put in a stroke or two about the feet of a maiden he was drawing in charcoal You will remember he aid that in all the great Greak and Roman sculptures the most shapely feet are those in which foe large toe is presented pre-sented as being a little apart from the other four During Sara BernharJtt last visit to New York she came to my studio to have some photographs taken of herself successively in three or four costumes of different roles she was then billed to impersonate Among them was that dejected character of Leah the forsaken I noticed that she wore the conventional stage footgear in which the big toe is given its own individual gloving so to speak and the other toes are mittened together I suggested that she remove the stockings stock-Ings which after a French shrug denoting de-noting curiosity and doubt she did I never saw in my lifeconsidering Mme Bernhardts yearsmore beau I tful and shapely feet than hers I posed her in such a way as to leave one foot in profile and the other in nearly a full view Just at that moment mo-ment a happy thought occurred to me Taking from my waistcoat a crisp bank note I folded it into a wad a third of an inch or more thick and gently pressed it between her right big toe and its immediate neighbor of smaller growth so as to separate them according to the oldfashined canon to which I have alluded Mme Bernhardt laughed heartily at my professional pro-fessional temerity but she was given a capital picture all the sameNew York Evening Telegram