Show high heels heel and tight shoes many reasons have been given for the preference shown by women generally for high heels one Is that the practice adds height to the body another that it adds gracefulness to the carriage to the latter we take exception cep tion tor for it may do so as long as the wearers bearers stand still but when they move about it imparts what can best beat be described as a babbling wab bling motion which Is the reverse of graceful tight shoes again are worn with the object of making the feet look small but as a matter of fact the better shape a foot too is the smaller it will look but in the disproportionately small toot fact there Is always involved an awkward gait the foot of a wl tall wo woman s should be larger than the foot of a small woman the toot foot in length should be the length of the ulna a bone in the forearm which extends from a protuberance tu tn in the outer portion of the wrist to the elbow of course the ulna Is longer in tall people and to be graceful the toot foot should be also many people may be surprised that the foot should beas long as the forearm and might be inclined to dispute the tact fact unless proved by demonstration big women sometimes pinch their feet in tight shoes because they are ashamed to have them in proportion to their bodies and thus in time they deform them until they are out of all proportion to the body and sometimes in the dire direction cUon they do not intend |