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the world only smiles, and their helpless 

 hybrid offspring pay the penalty. 



Such hybrid young men and young wo- 

 men could be seen thirty years ago at the 

 social functions of Chicago's smart set. 

 That was the time when the hog and cattle 

 industry furnished the money for Chi- 

 cago's social functions. The coarse bred 

 frontiersmen and cattle rangers, becoming 

 rich, had secured for their wives refined 

 well-bred women from the East and South, 

 whose families had lost their money. 



The horse breeder of today can readily 

 understand why the new City on the Lake 

 then made such enormous demands for 

 ladies* shoes of the larger sizes. In hu- 

 mans, a mixture of the coarse and gross 

 with the refined and delicate always re- 

 sults in too big a foot, or too thick an 

 ankle, or some other physical irregularity. 



The ladies of the smart set of Chicago 

 became worried over their children's feet, 

 and finally consulted experts on breeding, 

 and, among others, those at the Chicago 

 University, endowed by John D. Rocke- 

 feller, the horseman. They explained to 



