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FEET AND INTELLECT.
People with Small Pedal Extremities
Are Not Always Possessed of S«
perlor Mental Acquirements.
Small feet are considered by many to
be a mark of aristocracy, but they cer
tainly do not indicate superiority of )
Intellect, for many women of supreme
Intelligence have had very large feet,
George Eliot, for instance, who re
„ sorted to all kinds of devices to make
her big, broad, flat feut appear less
enormous. Mme. De Stael, the most bril
liant woman intellectually of her day,
had such immense and ungainly feet |
that she was made miserable by the ;
consciousness of their undue propor
tions, and knew that she was the 3ub- .
ject of many a joke on their account. !
Her face was not beautiful, but her i
figure was handsome and statuesque, j
and she once ventured to assume the
role of a Greek statue in some tableaux !
vivants which were given before an au
dience composed of clever and distin
guished people, among whom was the
witty Talleyrand. Mqie. De Stael was
grievously offended at hearing that her
brilliant friend had invented a bon mot
at her expense by remarking that he
had recognized the impersonator of the
Greek character at once by the “pied
de Stael.”
, The Germans and Scotch are credited
% with having the largest feet in Europe,
' and Spanish women, particularly An
dalusians, the smallest. The queen re
gent, who is Austrian and of as arlsto-.
cratic a descent as the most fastidious
could desire, is not blessed with small
feet; they are large and broad, and al
though, of sourse, she has the best of
chausseura that money can procure,
they never look neat. This is one of
the grievances that the Spaniards have
against her, for they have a horror of
big feet on a woman, and look upon
such a defect akin to crime.
I know a Spanish lady who went to
Berlin, and a few days after her arrival,
on dressing for a ball she , discovered
that her maid had forgotten to pack the
case containing her evening shoes. She
sent out for a pair, giving one of her
walking shoes as a sample, and after a
prolonged absence the messenger re
turned saying that no shoemaker had
anything so small on his premises ex
cept for very young children. The
wfliole city was searched, with the same
result, and she was obliged to wear her
walking shoes until some could he made
for her. The shoemaker did not have
a last small enough, and a special one
had to be made, which fact gives elo
quent if not altogether flattering proof
concerning the truth of what we hear
anent the size df the German ladies'
would, 1 think, not be found in any oth
er country, yet it is commonly asked ;
for here. English women are ^reat j
walkers, and wear wide, comfortable
^ boots for their long rambles through
muddy country laues—they'scorn rub
bers—and in consequence their feet
have become broad, but compared to
those of their Scotch sisters they are
fairyltke. im
French women have thort, thicjjjpeet
and their shoes made railier to inSkase
this appearance than oxherwise. Iwey ,
wear Jheir high heels almost in the mid- I
die of the foot, the instep is padded to ]
arch it, and she whose foot is long and I
narrow will use every art to take off !
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about half its length, the result .be
ing that as she gets older she is so
troubled with corns and bunions that
a pair of good old felt slippers—'her
husband’s preferably—are the only
things she can endure with comfort,
and in these she will shuffle about the
house, an eyesore to everyone who sees
her, donning the high heels, howf^er,
for outdoor wear religiously, a tTue
French woman will Suffer the tortures
of the inquisition every day of her life
with all the fortitude of a saint rather !
than wear a sensible, low-heeled shoe
that would give any idea of the real
shape of her foot.—N. Y. Telegram.
NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN.
One Story That Illustrates the Te
nacity of the Subjective
Mind.
A year ago a Chicago woman was vis
iting in a New York village. She went
with her hostess to make a call on the
next-door neighbor. The woman on
whom she was calling incidentally men
tioned that she expected a niece who
was just graduating at some college.
Her name was not mentioned. A few
days later the Chicago woman left. On 1
her way to the station she stopped next '
door to get a parcel. It was handed to
her by a young woman. That Is all ;
there was to that end of the story.
One day lately the (_ hieago woman
went on a lake trip. On the boat she
met a young woman from a neighbor
ing state. Each thought the other’s
face was familiar, butjaeither said any- 1
thing-ajxmt it. Finally a common
friend happened to mention a Michi- j
gan summer resort to the Chicago wom
an. The Chicago woman had never j
been there, but had relatives who went 1
there every year. This led to a men- j
tion of the New York village. In »
flash the Chicago woman knew that the j
girl with the familiar face was the one j
who gave her the parcel the day she *
left. The minute the name of the vil
lage was mentioned to the girl she rec- i
ognized the Chicago woman as the one i
to whom she had handed the parcel. '
This is a good example of what the t
hypnotists and “suggestionists” call 1
the subjective mind. It illustrates very i
'aptly the old saying that nothing is ; \
really forgotten, and that all impres- j s
sions Sre indelibly engraved upon the j
mental retina. In this fact lies the ex- !
planation of many vagaries of the mind
that on the face of things puzzle the j 1
scientists.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Hicks Living on a farm, as usual,
this summer? j a
Beech (with a sigh)—Yes; just as we | t
usually live on a farm.—Philadelphia S
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TRADE IN WAR RELICS.
Anything That Will Serve u a Me
men to of Brave Deeds Finds a
Ready Sale.
War medals, mostly won at the cost
jf peril and privation, an? pawned by
oossesaors and never redeemed, or are
.ent to the hammer by need, relatives
mi the decease of the veterans. It may
>e here noted tfcat no man on the army
ictive strength is allowed to pledge li;a
medal*. As is well known, war decora
tions that pass by the means stated,
and otherwise, into commerce, are
eagerly purchased by dealers, who dis
pose of them to museums; also to pri
vate collectors of every grade, from
\merican millionaires to British pub
licans.
These disks of silver, especially those
awarded for modern eampaigns, from
the Crimean war downward, are occa
sionally put by dealers to novel use.
By the aid of a blowpipe the inscrip
tion on the edge can be filled with sil
ver. when the surface, if need be, is
ready for reengraving. Doctoring of
the name, rank and regiment by the
method mentioned is common in the
trade. So it may be that the virtuoso
who imagines that ha possesses a me
mento of the late gallant Gen. Fitz Car
nage, K. C. B., who distinguished him
self at Balakiava, would be shocked if
he knew that his pet curio is a fraud
and that it belonged to old Tommy
Atkins, of the Onety-oneth foot, who
pawned it before he retired into the
workhouse to die.
Again, officers serving or retired
sometimes lose their medals, or have
them feloniously annexed. Sooner than
go through the war office red tape mill
to procure duplicates relettek-ed medals
are obtained from dealers. Mendicants
get hold of the medals In order to ex
hibit them to credulous and benevo
lent folks, and thus extract more lib
eral alms. War decorations are also oc
casionally sported by ona-armed or sin
gle-legged organ grinders. Such gentry
warrant themselves to be British, and
plead for patronage as a matter of na
tional sentiment and as opposed to the
claims of the Saffron hill musical con
tingent of invaders. These medal-dis
playing humbugs are seldom ex-sol
diers, far less have they been disabled J
in active service. They are at times j
considerably “out” in respect of a bit j
of medal ribbon shown. For instance, |
an organ grinder of about 25 years of
age was observed ih Holborn the other
day sporting the Crimean and Mutiny
ribbons!*
Sometimes an actor possessed of a
passion for realism, who may have to
impersonate on the stage the hero of
100 fights, invests in real medals with
which to cover the breast of his tunic.
a iso genuine war decorations adorn
the uniformed presentments of eminent
warriors in the best-class wax exhibi
tions throughout the country. A year
or two ago a paragraph went the rounds
of the papers to the effect that a king
of a tribe on the west coast of Affica
had a mania for collecting British war
medals, and that a city firm had a
standing order to supply his sable maj
esty. The king owned a major gen
eral’s tunic on which were sewn—both
back and front, and from collar to tails
—medals and clasps from those of the
peninsula and Waterloo downward.
This garment. the monarch proudly
sported on extra special state occasions.
—Regiment.
LESSONS FROM THE FROG.
Swimmers Can Get Valnabls ■
ers by Studying Crefctare’s
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“Those who want to become expert
swimmers will do well to go to the
nearest brook or swamp and study the
manner and method of the frog,” re- •
marked a teacher of swimming in one j
of the natatoriums in the city. “The !
most expert swimmers in the world j
are tyros compared with the laziest !
bullfrogs. The difficulty with all
swimmers is that they spoil the effect !
of the stroke by the recovery. When
a frog starts off he draws his legs care
fully and slowly tip under him until
he is in the position of a man sitting
on his haunches. Then he suddenly j
gives a mighty spring in the water, '
kic^ug his legs out, not behind him, I
but almost directly sidewise. After i
the kick his legs are slowly drawn to
gether by his motion through the wa- !
ter until they hang out behind him in
a perfectly rigid form. Every toe of
his web feet is held out as straight as
an arrow and then nothing retards his
motion through the water? He will lie '
in this posiH.cn until every bit of the
momentum is lost—that is, until he has
gone as far as the force of his kick will :
send him through the water. Then
again he slowly and carefully draws j
his legs in and repeats the perform- !
mice. \ ou will notice that in drawing I
the legs up to his body for a second
kick the frog recedes a little. This
is owing to the action of the upper leg
on the water, and it corresponds ex
lotly with the similar movement on
the part of a man. The first thing a !
frog does is to give his body a good j
Hart through the water, and he holds j
aimself in such a way that he gets the
vhole value of the stroke. A man !
itarts out with just such a kink, but j
if ter he has gone two or three feet he I
vill begin to swing his hands forward |
r draw up his legs in such fashion j
hat th^y offset the whole value of his ]
vork. He stops his own body half- !
vay before the effect of the stroke has !
pent itself.”—Chicago Chronicle.
Not the Ocean.
It was the morning after their ar
ival at a seashore resort.
I have often heard of the roar of
he ocean,” she said, dreamily, “but I
ever knew it sounded like that.”
That s not the roar of the ocean,”
nswered her more experienced hus
&nd; that’s the roar of a departing I
uest who has just been presented with
is bill.”—Chicago Post.
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