{nfluence of the Feet in Keeping], Young In the words of an old proverb. "A man speaketh with his feet and teacher!: with his fingers." Most of vs will agree that herds are a telltale feature, but few seem to realize how true it is that we speck with ourafect, especially in regard to our age. It is a fallacy to befool ourselves with the notion that what is not seen is not noticed.
Certainly feet matter much more nowadays then they used to. Our grandmothers, and in some cases our mothers in early middle age, resigned themselves to elastic sides" and "prunella'' boots, in which their feet were allowed to spread indefinitely, and where such middle-aged complaints as corns, bunions, and enlarged toe-joints could be comfortably coddled or cheerfully ignored.
Pack Wrixssies axn Fret The middle-aged woman of today, with her ankles exposed, cannot afford to do this. Feet are of the utmost importance to the woman who desires to retain her youthful appearance, but we usually make the mistake of paying more attention to our footwear than to our feet. We seem to imagine that youthful style in footwear will preserve the youth of our fect, but here we are wrong. A woman's hands will esi e her age away. but not sooner than her feet. It is often said that. we are as old as our feet, and thi true in the sense that the wrinkles which are caused by suffering feet have a peculiarly ageing effect. Go to any dance hall, and notice how many women furtively remove one or both shoes between dances. Little realize that the pain they fering for the sake of st cause of the large bills the: dater to the beauty speciaii remove wrinkles in the face.
Spenpine Tiar to Save Yrans, "T felt ten years younger." said a friend who had been visiting a chiropodist. Certainly a woman will look ten years younger if she is able to "foot it bravely."" instead of hobbling painfully. From the standpoint of appearance women cannot afford to neglect their feet. says Alice J. Whitmore in an article on the "Care of the Feet." Yet many women will spend a great deal of time manicuring their hands who would never dream of spending the same amount of time on their feet. The hands, of course, are micro in evidence, but the feet are far more important from the standpoint of health and well-being.
No woman who wishes to appear
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