1913. 
670 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering patterns always give 
number of pattern and measurements 
desired. 
The illustration shows 7773, blouse 
with vest, 34 to 42 bust; with or with¬ 
out peplum and chemisette, with long 
or elbow sleeves, with or without cuffs. 
7766, Russian blouse waist, 34 to 40 
bust; with fancy collar or square neck, 
with long or elbow sleeves. 7751, semi- 
princesse gown, 34 to 42 bust; with four- 
piece skirt, long or elbow sleeves, with 
or without chemisette. 7708. four-piece 
skirt, 22 to 32 waist; with underlying 
front panel, high or natural waist line. 
7236, three-piece skirt, 22 to 32 waist; 
with round or square corners at side- 
front, with high or natural waist line. 
Price of each pattern, 10 cents. 
Feet and Foot-wear. 
I was pleased to see the article on 
“Heels and Happiness” by Augusta Rose, 
which was published in a recent number 
of this paper, for while it may not be 
strictly a rural topic, the subject of the 
care of the feet is as truly of interest to 
the farm housewife who is obliged to 
spend long hours op her feet as to her 
city sister whose days are spent behind 
the counter or in endless shopping tours. 
When on a trolley trip a few years 
ago my seat-mate proved to be a chirop¬ 
odist of recognized merit in one of the 
New England cities. In the course of 
our conversation she gave me the fol¬ 
lowing excellent suggestions for the 
care of the feet: “At night bathe the 
feet freely with warm water in which a 
little borax or common salt has been 
dissolved. If the feet perspire badly 
borax is preferable. If jhere are cal¬ 
losities let the feet remain in the water 
10 or 15 minutes, then wipe dry and rub 
the callous places with a bit of emery 
paper or fine sand paper. Nez’er cut a 
corn or other callosity. Just before re¬ 
tiring rub the feet with a good cold 
cream. In the morning dip the feet in 
cold water and wipe dry. Be sure that 
the stockings are clean; many cases of 
cold feet may be traced directly to 
stockings which are not clean. The toe 
nails should be cared for as carefully 
as the finger nails. If people would only 
pay attention to these simple little things 
they would be saved an incalculable 
amount of suffering,” she added. 
At the Hygienic Congress recently 
held in Washington, D. C., our atten¬ 
tion was called to the importance of hy¬ 
gienic footwear. When we realize the 
deformities of the body as well as de¬ 
formity of the feet are often traceable 
directly to the shoes worn we begin to 
appreciate the need there is of paying 
marked attention to the shoes we wear. 
THE RURATi NEW-YOXKER 
Spinal curvature, the elevation of one 
hip or shoulder above the other, stoop¬ 
ing shoulders, head thrown forward and 
other idiosyncrasies which appear in 
growing children are frequently trace¬ 
able to habits formed as a result of the 
body trying to adjust itself to a wrong 
poise given it by wearing shoes which 
threw the body “out of plumb,” so to 
speak. Man was made upright. The 
normal man standing upright is so 
poised that the line of weight falls al¬ 
ways on the inside of the foot at a 
point between the ball and the heel. 
When walking this line remains the 
same, the full weight being received by 
the foot on the ground each time. Let 
him stand with his heels resting on a 
board an inch higher than the floor and 
you will see that a new adjustment of 
all the muscles of the body is necessary. 
Now place the inch board under the ball 
of the foot, letting the heels rest upon 
the floor. Again the muscles of the 
body must adjust themselves to accom¬ 
modate themselves to the change in the 
lint of weight; in the former case the 
weight was thrown on the ball of the 
the foot, or the toes, in the latter case 
on the heels. It is apparent that the vital 
organs must also be affected by this 
change, and a deviation from normal 
results. When you buy your next pair 
of shoes try this test: Place the heels 
flatly together and see what becomes of 
the ball of the shoe. If there is a half 
inch space between the two shoes at the 
ball when the heels are held flatly to¬ 
gether you are in the case of the man 
who has the board under his heels when 
standing on the floor. If you find it 
difficult to place the heels of the shoes 
flatly together because the balls of the 
shoes interfere you will be in the case 
of the man with the board under the 
balls of his feet should you try to wear 
the shoes. 
Now notice the size of the sole of 
the shoe under the instep. Nine chances 
to one you will find it narrowed down 
to an inch or two, giving no support at 
all to that part of the foot on which 
the weight will or should fall. If built 
on hygienic principles the shoes when 
placed with the heels flat together 
should allow the balls of the shoes to 
touch easily. The soles should be broad 
and so shaped that a line passing through 
the foot from the center of the heel to 
the toes will fall through the center of 
the sole of the shoe. Corns and bunions 
often result from crowding the foot into 
an ill-shaped shoe. The heels should be 
broad and not too high, although it is 
rather a question of an entire shoe built 
on hygienic principles than of heels. 
When trying on shoes be sure that 
the ball of your foot and the ball of 
the shoe exactly correspond. Should 
the ball of your foot fall behind or in 
front of the ball of the shoe serious 
trouble is likely to result. Flat foot, 
corns, etc., are the result of an ill-fitting 
shoe Oftentimes, as well as of an ill¬ 
shaped shoe. Some of these things 
were quite new to me, but they are 
based on the experience of one of New 
York’s prominent specialists, and I think 
are correct. 
There are shoes made on hygienic 
principles, but my experience has been 
that it is almost an impossibility to ob¬ 
tain them at the average shoestore. The 
clerk usually looks wise in these places 
and says, “They are not wearing that 
style now; this is the newest thing,” and 
one is forced to take the oftentimes 
monstrosity offered or go without. The 
average shoe clerk knows nothing about 
the first principles of hygienic footwear. 
He is there to sell the shoes in stock, 
and he intends to do it at any cost. 
His statements are often as absurd as 
that of one of the clerks to whom I ap¬ 
plied for a common-sense shoe. He re¬ 
plied, “We don’t handle them any more; 
they are the cause of ‘flat foot,’ you 
know.” 
The best shoe I have ever seen of this 
Shall She Pierce Her Ears? 
Is it not perfectly proper to have one’s 
ears pierced so as to wear diamond 
ear studs? I know that ear-piercing 
has been for some time under the ban 
of fashion, but so many ear-studs are 
worn, and are so becoming to so many 
women, that it does not seem that they 
ever could go entirely out of fashion. 
Seems to me that the present French 
clasp arrangement for earrings simply 
spoils the beauty of a handsome pair 
of ear-studs. Even the long drop ear¬ 
rings lose much of their grace and 
beauty and appear stiff and ungraceful 
when fastened with clasp arrangement 
as compared with their beauty when 
hung in the ear in the old-fashioned 
way. My grandmother offers me a very 
handsome pair of diamond ear studs on 
condition that I have my ears pierced 
and wear them, and not have the beauty 
of the studs spoiled by having them 
changed to the clasp arrangement. Now 
I haven’t any scruples against having 
holes put in my ears, and have not done 
it long ago for the simple reason that 
ear-piercing and earrings were consid¬ 
ered too much out of style- Now those 
ear-studs are mighty becoming to me, 
and I want to wear them and the only 
reason I am hesitating about having 
my ears pierced is that I do not want 
to do it if it is considered too much out 
of fashion. But it does seem as though 
the diamond ear-stud might always be 
worn by women who are fortunate 
enough to have them. A reasonable 
compliance with the whims of fashion 
certainly means a good deal to most 
of us in this world, but how so beau¬ 
tiful an ornament to women and one so 
universally and for so many centuries 
worn as earrings should be given up is 
more than I can understand, and we 
will hope it is but a passing whim. I 
believe it was Dr. Oliver Wendell 
Holmes who in the “Autocrat of the 
Breakfast Table" called earrings the 
golden lamps which light up the cheeks 
of all young beauties. Give me your 
opinion as to what I shall do about this, 
and let us have the matter fully dis¬ 
cussed in The R. N.-Y. I might add 
that my husband is particularly anx¬ 
ious that I accept the studs and have 
my ears pierced for them. sallie. 
R. N.-\.—We think it is not merely 
fashion that has caused the growing dis¬ 
taste for piercing the ears, but a general 
dislike for the disfigurement involved, 
which must always be evident unless the 
ornaments are constantly worn. Several 
persons to whom we submitted the ques¬ 
tion stated that pierced ears made them 
think of a savage nose-ring. One rare¬ 
ly sees young women or girls now with 
pierced ears, excepting among foreign 
immigrants, and one often sees laboring 
men, especially Sicilian or Calabrian, 
wearing these decorations, from which 
one may make the general statement 
that society discards the custom as it 
grows in refinement. 
On the other hand, there are many 
persons who cannot fasten an ear-ring 
securely with the little screw-clasp. If 
the lobe is very shallow, or rather thick, 
the clasp is not comfortable, and we 
know those who find them entirely im¬ 
practicable. Such a one must submit 
to piercing if the ornaments are to be 
worn. We admire these ornaments very 
much. Dr. Holmes adds to his appre¬ 
ciation of them the wise statement that 
no woman has entirely given up the 
great firm of Mundus & Co. so long 
as she continues to wear ear-rings. They 
have remained in fashion for many 
thousands of years, and are never really 
out of style, though the extent of their 
vogue varies. The propriety of piercing 
the ears must be decided solely by in¬ 
dividual taste; if done it means the 
wearing of ear-rings perpetually, where¬ 
as the clasps give the option of leaving 
the unmutifated ears unadorned. Our 
own feeling is strongly against the pierc¬ 
ing, but “Sally” gives some very strong 
arguments on the other side. 
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There is no 
question 
about there 
being a 
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kind costs $8. and I have yet to have 
the pleasure of possessing a pair. How¬ 
ever, I know of one who has worn one 
pair for four years and they are still 
in service, so the investment may be a 
“bargain” after all. Friends who wear 
them are enthusiastic, but at present $8 
looks pretty big to me, and I shall have 
to content myself with one of the imi¬ 
tations which have already been placed 
on the market. One thing I shall do, 
and I hope those of you who may read 
this will join me in it; that is insist 
upon a shoe built on hygienic principles. 
This is no useless fad; it is a matter of 
health and happiness for even-one. 
Martha's niece. 
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