s fo Force On i Two Women 0 A) in England Have Undergone Amputation ~ of Their Small Toes and Surgeons Make the Report that They Walk '"Better than Ever"? doy Brown, New York Women's Swimming Club, Showing the Natural Spread of the Foot When the Weight of the ody Is Upon Ir. ITED ry First Diagrams, at Left, Shows Natural Bone Structure or Woman's Bare Foot When Walking; Note How Different Its Outline Is from thet of "Toothpick" Shoe. Second Diagram Shows All of This 3 1 " Foot Except the Little Toe Compressed in Shoe; If the Little Y "3 pS k This Type of "Toothpick" Shoe Toe Were Also Forced Into the Shoe, It Would Have to . 3 wi op i ls Now the Rage in London. Be Painfully Crowded and "Lapped" or Turned Under. * * Third Disgrac Shows Foot Comfortably Encased N _ Jamon, presented difficulties for English ASHIONABLE women are cutting oft in "Toothpick" Shoe After Amputation of 3 y he English women liked the shoe. They their toes in order to wear narrower Little Toe. * Lay : bad no criticism to make of it They shoes! walk, 'stand, dance and run with as much : 3 didn't want to change it. They changed Already two operations have taken place ease afterward as before--even with, more ' 3 their feet instead. in exclusive London private sanitariums, ease if the foot has been previously 5 | The only formal and official English pro- - he Tuaiie spteiding ory w 8 A Wimbor of Alo, ative aur Douncement from medical ¢ircles on the n e © toe of each foot is sacri- geons o and agree w em that the ; ficed ye the altar of vanity, -for the pur. . fad is harmless. Others take a different ' Soyaniie Ju fr 172 to Natiopal view, strongly advise against it, and de- ] rthopedic Hospital: Pose of the toe operation is not to shorten clare that perfect balance, equilibrium snd ] 3 "Toe cutting is not dangerous if done the foot, but merely to enable it to fit ovement can be possible only when the ' by a competent surgeon. Sometimes it is comfortably into the extremely long and foot ig equipped with nature's full set of 6 J even necessary when the toe is afflicted * narroy "toothpick" shoe which originated in 1 44 tint women. golf players -- by disease or has been severely injured by I America 3d is naw become swagger athletes, professional dancers and those too tight shoes. In our opinion, however, Two. young waren, both beautiful, both Who for sport or business have to spend . it is not Justifiable to have the little tos social leaders, had their little toes removed cut off merely to follow fashion. in the same private hospital at Mayfair. Whether it is Justifiable" or not, The operation, performed with a local ane men are actually doing it--just as in all esthetic, is sald to be painless and to leave ages and all countries, civilized and une a scar so slight as to be scarcely notice- civilized, women have voluntarily under able. gone fantastic tortures, mutilations and The convalescents, when they have their distortions to make themselves more at. ndages removed, believe that they will tractive to their suitors or more pleasing never again suffer from the disability of to their own eyes. Cinderella's ugly sisters. They send for REN 8 ¢ ae " a A Compared with what the upper-class the narrowest pair of shoes to be found = y A Chinese Lady with Her gomen of China have done to their feet in the smart shoe shops, and discover to § : & RE thelr intense delight that they can accom. ; 3 ; F ; Yous Son, Showing Her modate four toes in a shoe which would . k £8 v iny Bound Feet in have been much too narrow for a complete J pa] & Comparison with the opetation as visitin set : : : Normal Feet of the Child. dive Practice of i i The women who have had their little toes removed declare that thie operation, g 3 in addition to bringing them Into line with 3 3 ris i men. Less the prevailing fashion, enables them to § a ago it was almost universal Walk with ease and comfort unknown to \ ; 5 still practiced. vhem for years. The little toe of the wo- \ " After a Chinese gir] baby is born into man who has been agdicted to too narrow ¢ 4 tocratic home, if the parents are shoes before the &peration is usually . still advocates of the old standards of found to be curled under, compressing and ht A female beauty, she is taken when scarcely getting in the way of the other toes and : 3 able to toddle to an expert foot-binder. At frequently calloused and pressed out of J 2 : this age the tendons ang muscles are still shape.® X : . soft and the bones are not yet firmly set, Surgeons are divided as to whether the by : Her little toes are bent backward under artificial transformation of milady from a v b the inste 8 tightly swathed ten-toed creature into an eight-toed one : s 5 & In tape bandages. From that moment on, will have any permanent harmful effect. : s : . until she reaches full womanhood, the Apparently, and by their own statementa, 5 ? : bandages are never removed, except to be women who have unflergone the operation (I * aS immediately re is 0st completely stopped. result is the tiny "golden lilies" --the little deformed feet less than three inches long, which mandarins for ages have regarded 88 an exquisite and dainty mark An additional r "beauty," by Western ; 1 Ewe ; standards is a cripple all her . , 3 : high h . ; : stance og Br A sels Datura) ae = . To i e Sivitine countries for the sake of style or Remarkable X-Ray Photo of Woman's Foot en 4 - 1 While Wearing a "Toothpick" Shoe. Note How land dochare chat ot ay the Toe Bones Are Compressed. / long hours on their feet, will not embrace racy--a race whose this new vagary of fashion. f men and women for Although the fad may be in here and ttle 1 ort, hasten \nature's process by call- in the aid of the surgeon's knife? ¥, if you happen to fall in glish beauty who has par- Barrow | and stylish feet, you ,» when you take hor , to find that yoa . in love with an eight-topd Compression Picture of the Feet of a Young Woman to Determine . ey on the Bone Formation of the Toes. 3 . 2 - SE