194 THE RIGHT TO BE WELL BORN 



yotmg men wearing shapely, straight, high- 

 instep shoes, like Slater, Young and others 

 used to make; but, to meet the needs of 

 these male nondescripts, flat shoes, cres- 

 cent-shaped on the outside, are required. 

 They remind one of a flattened Bologny, 

 burst on the outside. 



The Chicago and Western ladies, who 

 studied and practiced eugenics, soon bred 

 shapely daughters, and have lately intro- 

 duced the custom of short skirts — and the 

 exposure of the legs to the knee, and some- 

 times further. To meet these new condi- 

 tions, our New York and Newport newly- 

 rich are securing from French Madams on 

 Fifth Avenue, shapely ' ' fats ' ' or " symmet- 

 ricals" for their skinny-legged daughters; 

 or stockings with stripes up and down for 

 those of the piano-legged formation. 



When Mrs. "Newly-Eich" explains to 

 her husband that their daughter Mary's 

 slippers and shoes, on account of the ad- 

 vance in leather, along with other war mu- 

 nitions, now cost fifty to a hundred dollars 

 a pair, you may be sure that ninety-nine 

 times out of a hundred Mary gets her 



