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Show HOW TO BE BEAUTIFUL By 77mL. Sj.'&M' "If You Would Prevent Wrinkles and Improve Your Disposition, Look After Af-ter Your Feet," says Madame Ise'-bell. Ise'-bell. "Her feet like little mice stole in and out." A prcttv foot is charming, a well-shod well-shod foot 'the complement of any correct cor-rect toilet, but even my favorite Teu-nvson Teu-nvson cannot appeal to me on these grounds; T fail to understand the -sistance that the poets and singe of women's charms have laid on little rcet. , . As normal health is to me the foundation founda-tion of all true beauty, and every mail seems to contain a request for the aching feet, I have indeed reason to rail at this acclaiming of the small foot as the standard of beauty. Aching feet are anvthing but beautifying; beauti-fying; thev are the Fource of many wrinkles, unkind thoughts and bad temper. tem-per. If vou would improve your morals, disposition and temper, improve vonr feet. " Moreover, a font is not, beautiful because be-cause it is small. Personalities sometimes some-times emphasize a point, and I will admit ad-mit that mv own foot is somewhat too short to "conform to my height and -' .&--vi:';''.:.' weight. But I was a woman approaching approach-ing middle age, before t was aware of this fact. As a girl 1 was proud of wearing a child's shoe and, undoubtedly, undoubted-ly, often wore a size that was really absurd in comparison to my tigurc. During a visit, to Paris an intelligent shoemaker pointed out to me that my loot did not show under the long skirt then in vogue: that T gave the appearance of a nomau without feet when dressed for the afternoon or evening. 1 took the lesson to Heart and my new last, from which I have never departed, is made three-quarters of an inch longer than my natural foot. Skirts are now so short that there is no danger of the font being hidden, hut the theory is still true that the foot should conform to the size of the body. There is no more beauty in a foot too small for the body than there is in the artificially deformed foot of the Chinese women. The (Ireeks understood this. Look at the old statues and you will see feet perfect in lino and hone structure, but always the support of the figure. We shall never have beautiful feet or feet free from discomfort and pain until we completely change our ideal of the attractive at-tractive foot. |