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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1112, 5 September 1871, Page 2

A late number of the New York Standard .says:—Good authority affirms that it the present fashion in ladies' high-heeled boots continues much longer, " there will not be a decent foot or an aesthetic leg in our female population." iEbthetic legs are an extremely desirable. The woman who habitually and continually cramps the sole of her foot, is guilty of maiming the soul of her body. The chignon having had its day, an absurdity iu sympathy with it attacks the heels. These fashionable ironshod champagne corks, rimmed with gold and silver, that do duty for heels and support the hind part of the foot, are merely meant to catch men's eyes, and throw custom into the hands of the chiropodists. If New York were to be saved from a rain of lire on condiliou of their being found ten fashionable women in it with beautiful feet, we are afiaid the shower would come. A former JLord Max or of London, Sir Thomas Harper, left two fields in Bloomsbury for the education of poor boys in Bedfordshire. At the time of bequest the value of the land was <£4o a year. Now it js 80,Q00, anp! at the end of the present lease it will be about £160,000,