Sept. 85, 1885.] 



KNOWLEDGE 



1)1 



ng words 'Hey diddle diddle ' — through the equally 

 lysterious ' deedle deedle dumpkin ' — witli the Humpty 

 pty who sat on a wall, — undoubtedly the setting 



1, just a 



' Hickamoi 





End.y: 

 King's kitchen tlooi 

 heavens : with muc 

 (He will forgive me 

 .sense.) Now, does n 

 gravely tell us that 1 

 cat and the fiddle,' 

 myth, and in all seriousness assure u.f, as i'oster had 

 laughingly said before, that the cow jumping over the 

 raocm, the little dog, &c., are astronomical references ? 

 Traly Thackeray must have had this joke in his thoughts 



Ic, the 



when he 



the 1] 



Ipsarjae 



THE FACE OP THE SKY. 

 Feom Sept. 25 to Oct. 9. 

 By F.R.A.S. 

 JO opportunity should be neglected of observing the 



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ON THE FOOT CLOTHING OF ITaMITIVE PEOPLES. 



[1935]— The reformers of ladies' dress do not seem hitherto to 



have turned their attention to all the evils attendant on the 



modern form of foot covering and the materials of which it is 



Professor Mattieu Williams, in his XVIth article, objects to the 

 stiff leather shoe or boot as being both uncomfortable and pre- 

 judicial to health ; but he does not give any hint as to what he 

 would recommend as a substitute. He acknowledges that bare feet 

 are objectionable in view of tin-tacks, broken needles, A:c. He does 

 not allude to the fashion of wearing high-heeled boots— a custom 

 most fatal to beauty of form in the human foot. If we look around 

 us (so widespread has the custom become) we can v.-ith difficulty 

 fiuid any young women of twenty-fi\ e, or thereabouts, whose feet 

 are not permanently disfigured, i'f not deformed, by this practice. 

 From the heel of the foot being lifted out of its natural position, 

 and thus not receiving its due proportion of the weight of the body, 

 there is undue pressure on the ball of the great toe, the front part 

 of the foot is widened, the great-toe joint enlarged, and the foot 





isightl 







—and certain r 

 mcient customs are— much wiser in such 

 those who have adopted modern civilization, and 

 tieforc comfort or convenience, regardless of its 



of the 6th 



1 dark limb 



n the same 



c bright 



e Moon of 





M Tibet (Leh, the capital of this province, 

 1 level), the climate is, during the greater 

 III lenient one. Tlie natives protect the leg 



I Mele -V ';■ r -:v1e of thick puttOO. a 



1,00 for Virgo al G p.m. ou the Gth. lier pa 

 occupies until 7 p.m. on October 9, when she ei 

 leave her. 



ge through Virgo but vet, "if this form of shoe were not a good one, the practical 

 rs Libra. We there Scotch peasant would surely have discontinued the use of his 

 I Rivilins. 



