Show r PRACTICAL TALKS BY THE Li APRIL lJ ii I f CZ T should be as well cared for as aI asI asare I F are aro the hands bands but few Indeed are uro the pairs which get set such lIuch kindly treatment That Is one of time the reason reul why hr so BO many girls are unable to walk Ott r or fast and would go to the pillows gallows rather rn than publicly pu exhibit their distorted toes The nil April Grandmothers Gron gaze shifted from frum the tho agonized face of o her ber eldest eld t granddaughter grand granddaughter daughter to the shoes s which that Interest interesting In ing young oung person was breaking In and nOli her tones became slightly tinged with Irony as ns she continued The rhe average girl apparently ap Ip apparently considers that her feet are arc danger dangerous ous criminals which deserve to be inhumanely In Inhumanely Inhumanely humanely tortured as well ell as ns Imprisoned In tight shoes of whatever shape Ibn most ap appeals appeals peals to 10 Her 1 er fancy A womans DS feet grow row Indefinitely Tho The April Grandmother smiled at the tho horrified l Oh I 1 of oC her young joung descendant But an as a n great gnal many women do not Dot realize that fact und and the remainder will not admit It even een to themselves the annual crop of o corns bunions and nails naps Is increasing in size Ize Became shoe I top materials stretch to a certain extent It Is quite possible to force f the feet into inlo footgear toot r which Is III a size or more mor too small mall but bat to expect upcot the muscles KO so unnaturally un unnaturally naturally crowded to fulfil their mission is ns as absurd as ns It IG Is to try tr to write legibly with the hand band encased in a tight glove 10 lies Few girls dream oC of washing the fc f feet t tt t E w oftener than twice tw co dally daily yet et in the course of o fifteen hours hour they plunge their hands ball s sn n a dozen or more times dines Into soapy Mall water lest a dust U speck stamp them a nil as a It poison r ron of o uncleanly habits Nevertheless they th thI walk about the streets for several hours at lat a n time and then allow the dust du t which Inevitably sifts through the shoes to sink Into the pores of o the feet To 10 remove the footgear dip time the feet luto lulo cold coM water and ami then put on fresh things is not live min minutes toes utes work but so long Ions as ne the warm arm and wenry weary feet do not ache or swell Imell to 10 nu nn In degree erce they are arc neglected I Soaking the feet cot In castile warm water is quite as beneficial to their muscles and cuticle ns as it Is to those parts of OC the thO hands band continued the April Grandmother Grand Grandmother GrandI mother And nd the time nails on tho toes should I be lie accorded precisely cly tho the name amount of oC manicuring as ns the fingertips y I would be were It tho the fashion to wear bolls bells In accordance with time nursery nur err Whenever the hands are In tho least lendt degree dc teo cold or the fingers over ever so au slightly stiff they are nN promptly and thoroughly hj I warmed near a n fire or briskly rubbed to restore circulation limit but their poor little I the feet lo not receive any Huch Kuch pampering Beyond their dally bath bad while they thoy fulfil their ordained mission and an amateur ur surgical lur ical operation they develop corns the time feet Ceet are arc In Ic almost every Instance neglected for Cor t tiO so o long as 7 they remain reasonably healthy and exo when they thc complain because c of loc Ion long continued ill treatment I But concluded ed the April Grandmother Grand Grandmother I mother with n a sigh which wn a 11 laugh no change Is I likely lIkel to occur occur until of the feminine personage I some pome very great sreM tex sex ex adopts sandals s for all nil occasions Then Theu some radical reforms In the time We we shall see HOC treatment of or feet |