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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 20, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 12.

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HIGH HEELS.

By Jas. H. Jackson

THE foolish practise of wearing high and small heels is cruelly ruinous to health, comfort, grace, and beauty. High heels not only break down the arch of the foot, upon which ease and grace of movement depend, but also destroy the beauty of the foot itself, by crowding it into the front of the shoe and producing the effect of continued walking down-hill. Hence come numerous deformities and derangements. In the case of girls who wear high heels there is positive alteration of muscular structure and function, accompanied not infrequently by inflammation, contraction, and partial paralysis of muscles of the leg.—Jas. H. Jackson, M. D.