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Show THE LADIES' SHOES Of THE PERIOD. 'Iho shoes worn by tho young woman : of the period is surely one of the most i abominable contrivances ever brought I into vouge by the caprice of Iho sex. , What need to describe it? Do we not j oil know the absurdity of its construc-I construc-I lion, and how ingeniously it has been designed for the destruction of all comfort, and case.and grace in walking, ; and also of all semblance to a real woman's foot? When it first came into in-to fashion, tho ladies were told by a i few sensible men that to put their feet into a machine with a toe like a bird's ; bill, and a heel three inches high ! brought forward under the instep, ; would insure suffering and deformity. But the dear creatures, in their irre- sietable way, resonted this interferance j with their prerogative of self-torture 1 and self caricature, and asked, would ; you have us look like dowdies with I broad Iocs to our shoes, and low heels, 1 and all that? "all that" meaning heels where nature intended they , should bo. The pica was unanswerable, unanswera-ble, lint thf pmlictod consequences have come. Ladies' shoemakers (certain (cer-tain truthful ones) tell us, what obsor-I obsor-I vation also reveal.'', that there is hardly a young woman now who regards her . self at all fashionable who has not i bunions, callosities, oorns and enlarged joints; and that the crop of these orna-. orna-. incuts developed within tlnlast four or , five yoars is astonishing and pitiful. ! The worst of it is that there appears to be no prospect of relief, except a turn in the whirligig of fashion, and that ; there are are no exceptions to the rule of torture and deformity. New York I Times. |