Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON DID HE SIT AT YOUR FEET HY Is it that according to the WHY common romantic conception a proposal Is incomplete without a man on his bis knees or at ones feet it Is certainly a fact that in all the romeo and juliet dreams of adolescent youth the suitor plays a kneeling part and in their heart of hearts most wives 3 at some time admitted disappointment at a proposal that lacked the floor stunt it Is of course by our romantic literature that these ideas are inculcated in the fertile youthful mind but for a sentiment through ages so prevalent there must be some foundation and there Is among the ancients it was the custom for people to sit at the feet of the great of both sexes with the decline of ancient austerity this homage was transferred to beauty with french influences rapidly spreading over europe it can be read lly ily understood that ideals of beauty soon came to be centered cent erld in feminine loveliness at whose feet Indola tors worshiped I 1 in elizabeths time tallies ladies who were being wooed used to keep the suitors at their feet busily en by giving allem wool to wind 1 copyright |