Show FLAT FEET ARE THE THING use wide shoes and ton will be able to walk erectly not more than two men in walk erectly this observation comes from a man who is a crank about the benefits of wide flat shoes says the new york press he declares he has made notes and knows what he is talking about he thinks that the two men in wear the same kind of shoes that he wears which look like those used for walking on water this man also believes that the percentage of women who walk straight is BO small that it is not worth considering the whole trouble he attributes to shoes he says men and women were never intended to wear shoes at all it is his observation that when the foot is flattened out and the toes spread the natural movement of the body is to straighten itself this he attributes to certain muscular action and he has a chart to prove it when the foot is compressed by a shoe and the boea jammed together there is a sympathetic tension on the whole muscular and nervous system which draws the body forward or bends it it has been noted in his calculations that persons in bathing costume on the beach walk much straighter it is also a notable fact that the Indi aji who runs barefooted on the plains has the proudest kind of a walk he is as straight as an iron pole |