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n THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MORNING, StARCH 30, 1913. .
1 MAKC YOUR sJfM Neglected Opportunities for M
1 I'lrniAfc vvlVgW3lr Unusual Adornment Revealed
LtT A ' to Wen m a New PhilosopM
m tIi-V-r, WWRmm? of Pedal Decoration 1
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P BY POLAIR.E '' i mmCSi Zfe 'iiJBP,li
I THE UCLIEST BEAUTY M .fM.i ymY
Y NEVER touch my own feet I
I ? I have three maids who do
nothing else but care for
them. One washes and massages
them- One puis on my 6tocklngs
and shoes. Tho third Is the ar
tiste who under my direction em
bellishes them!
( I put my foot If not before my
k face at lest on equality with It
It Is a contortionist phrase you say.
Non, I mean It not literally but
aesthetically, picturesquely.
Feet have too long been woman's
most neglected possession. They
are a basis of ornamentation which
she has passed over. She has
looked upon them morely as some
thing to walk on. A clover Ameri
can once recited me some verses
by another clover American which
reflect tho Inefficient idea. I
memorized them:
My feet are very useful;
I put them on the ground,
Then all I do Is steer them
And they take me all around.
Gellet Burgess.
And feet are so much more than
thatl Listen: I tried experiments
when tho first gleam of my now
philosophy came to me. I found
that there are three points on
which the eye rests, tho face, the
hands, the feet. A woman may
have a beautiful face and beautl
Wm ful hands, but if her shoes and
Hfl stockings are untidy and shabby
they kill the whole effect. On the
other hand, a woman who Ib beau
tlfully shod, beautifully stockinged,
may be very ugly, may not bo well
dressed, may have rough hands
. but her feet will more than carry
her through.
One says of the first: "Beautl
ful face, beautiful dress, beautiful
hands but did you see her feetl"
Of the second they say, "Yes, she's
not pretty, but did you see her
feet!" There is a world of dlffer
ence between the two remarks.
Why is the emphasis always laid
upon the feet?
Why Is it that no matter how
well you are dressed, how well
groomed, your measure of self ap
.pralsal Is always adjusted to the
condition of your shoes? Tt Is so
if everything else is all right and
your shoes are shabby you feel
Hj shabby, and people think you
HI shabby. But if you are threadbare
HI everywhere else and have on a-
pair of nice, now, perfectly fitting
ornamental shoes you feel well
dressed and every one thinks you
well dressed. Is it not so?
Why then has this Important
part of us been so neglected
looked upon simply as something
Jm useful which carry us around when
we steer them?
. The ancient women and the wo-
men of the East know better. It
was the little tinkling feet of Sa
lome that won Herod: "Your lit
tie feet will be like little white
doves. They will be like little
white flowers that dance upon the
H, trees." The women of the East
stain them artfully with henna;
they hang chains of gold and
jewels upon them. They are ef
Sclent women, those women of the
East, and they know values far,
far better than we of tho West.
They realize their decorative
value.
B I have been called the ugliest
H :
French Cartoon of Polaire.
beauty in Paris. I am, and I am 1
proud of it. I have a quality that
the mero beauties have not. I am f
all they nro and more. I fascinate. 1
Mere beauty slips through the eye I
and off the mind, so softly like i
feathers. But I do not slip so. The 1
quality that Is called beauty I
have, but my ugliness Is like little
hooks that faston It in the mind.
I stick. They do not. And this is
because I have studied the value
of the unusual, tho surprise, the
unexpected. So It Is of feet. We
have gone our ways inefficiently,
and every one has made up his
mind at laBt to look over our feet.
They Bay: "Oh, well, feet are al
ways ugly. Let us fprget them!"
And then bonold, along comes
Polaire who has studied her feet,
who has made them different. And
every one starts up with surprise (
and says, "How wonderful, how
charming, how different!"
I could be ten times uglier and
they would still be enraptured.
Genius Is only taking the thing
that everybody has and developing
it so that it seems lhat no one else
has it Do you understand me? It
is a deep secret that!
Now when I had .mastered the
first principles of my foot philosophy
I said to myself: "What shall I do
with them?" I had a maid who mas
saged and cared for them, but it
came to mo that this maid could not
do all that wa3 necessary no more
than one's masseuse could pick out
ono's dresses. I said: "First of all,
the feet must be kept most wonder
fully shapely and healthful. They
are to be the background of my new
decorative art. Sometimes I shall
wear sandals, sometimes I shall go
with them entirely bare. And so
they must bo pink and whlto and
firm and shapely." Well, that was
easy.
Half an hour In the morning and
half an hour In the evening, and
ofton in the middle of tho day, they
are exercised and massaged.
Then, I said, I must have a maid
who will look after my stockings,
and tho numbers of shoes and slip
pers and sandals I intend to get.
She will do nothing else. It will bo
her task to do this perfectly. And
then I must have a real artiste who
'The feet canbee picture gal- k M J
Polaire. ."Study their decora- WMzX
bon possibilities as you would 'agaSBSsBnB Mile. Polaire with Her Two Favorite Terrier., Who Ptcfaro k
your hair, your hands, or your -3) Wears on Her Slipper. V
will recognize
as fully as I
the value of
ray feet, and
who will study
effects, suggest things I may not
think of, correct what faults, be
cause of personal possession of the
feet, I may fall Into; and vulgari
ties or commonness, you know.
So I got these maids.
But first I tried another little ex
periment. I got the prettiest little
jewelled watch. I secured It to a
slender garter Just above my ankle
and I wore It. The success of that
simple Idea! How it conformed me
In my thoughts! Within a week
there were dozens of watches being
so worn, and the name of Polaire
had an added lustre.
So encouraged I mapped out my
feet, part by part. We studied tho
effect of this in this place of that
In that. We wont over them inch
by inch and bone by bone. You
cannot believe until you try It what
complexities develop themselves.
Think of the infinite variations one
can get from the simple octave!
Think then of what variations one
can got with ten toes, two ankles
and so on, with slippers and no slip
pers, stockings and no stockings,
sandals, shoes oh, the Infinity of it!
I have many dear friends. I had
miniatures painted of them and set
in the most beautiful anklets and
bands. And those I use now and
then when I think well of them and
desire to wear sandals. It would
not be aesthetic nor in good taste
to wear these miniatures on my
neck, or In my nalr, or about my
forehead in a fillet. But how they
adapt themselves at once to my
feet! I can raise them and look
into their faces. And how they arc
set off there!
I had dozens of special slippers
and shoes made. I had them paint
ed by tho best artists In Paris. I
had them Jewelled and embroidered
after designs I desired. And then
I had ray dresses built In harmony
with my feet. Was not this Intelli
gent? I think so. If It Is the feet
that nro the test stone, the founda
tion of the toilette, why should not
the toilette be built up on them?
How foolish to start from the roof
of the house and build down!
I had stockings made for me In
the samo way. I cannot agree with
Miss Gertrude Hoffman In her Idea
of painting les jambes. I do not
like that. It offends me. One should
either be natural purely or don the
embellishments to the natural. One
would not paint a pearl or em
broider fino lace. The skin of feet
or les jambes is both pearl and fine
lace. Its greatest charm Is Itself.
It can bo used. as a foundation, a
background, but It should not be
mixed directly with tho ornamen'
tatlon.
One should either wear stockings
or wear none. If they wear none,
the ornamentation should be . apart
from the skin. Bracelets, jewels,
bljous of various kinds can be
placed upon It but to paint It! I
shudder!
My feet are fixed with a definite
Idea always. I have two little dogs
that I love. I have had their minia
tures painted. When I go out with
my dogs one or both of my slippers
or shoes has a buckle on it which
holds in a circle of diamonds and
rubles their miniatures. I have my
Greek moods. In these I don san
dals. I wear upon two or more toes
some beautiful, especially designed,
rings. They are thin and flat at
the bottom so that, they do not hurt
the skin. Around my Instep Is
clasped a linked chain with wonder
ful old camoea set In It. About my
ankle is a cord of gold, soverly
olassical In outline. This Is my
right foot. My left is not dressed
just like It. Not at all. Each foot
should supplement the other. They
should not show bnrreness of In
vention by both being the same. On
The Painted-on-the-Skin "Ston of Ger- v ,
trude Hoffman, Which Mile. Polaire Does gBMBt, UmMMf -
Not Approve WKtSSKl 4-
"I never touch my feet with my own hands," says Mile. Polaire. This Photograph
Shows Her Particular Shoe Maid at Work.
the other ankle is perhaps a broad
band of antique enamel. I may
wear no rings at all on the toes of
this foot. But running down to
meet the sandal, between the great
toe and the next, will be a string of
slitterlng gems!
Sometimes in mixed moods I wear
a slipper and a sandal. But what
ever I wear is for a purpose and as
carefully thought out as a picture.
.Make your feet a feast for the eyes.
Is the keynote of my philosophy.
It I3 an opportunity woman has
too long neglected. All I can do
now is to give my sisters a mere
hint of the possibilities. I beg them
to think It over well. We cannot be
really efficient so long as we think
of our feet as merely utilitarian
things.
Why Queen Mary Is Her j
Most "Taking" Majesjj
London, March 18.
T the sIlver! Turn the
I 1 pictures toward the wall!
Take off your jewels and
pack them away! Tell James and
Jerry to carry the old Thirteenth
Century armchair up into the gar
ret, for Queen Mary may be here at
any moment," screamed the Mar
chioness of Landsdown.
"I have Just received word from
the royal messenger that Her Most
Taking Majesty will do me the hon
or to stop over an hour on her way
past the castle." Tho guests were
not startled. They looked at each
other in a knowing way, and one
noble lord was heard to chuckle to
himself, "My word! Taking Maj
esty, that Is good."
Some sympathetic glances were
turned toward the DuchesB of De
vonshire. "Tell us about it," Implored tho
Countess Fitzwllliam of the Duch
ess, taking a chair near her.-
Tho story was then whispered
that has been making all court cir
cles buzz for a fortnight.
It is King George's great delight
to shoot grouse on the moors around
Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, on the
estate of the Duke of Devonshire.
After one of these hunting trips
Queen Mary came to get him and
return to Windsor Castle together.
The Duchess of Devonshire has
one treasure that has been the envy
of all her frlends an old Sevres tea
pot, perhaps the most exquisite that
the famous French manufacturer
ever turned out.
By some unlucky chance the
Queen passed through tho salon
containing it, and, of course, made
straight for it. She did not praise
it, she went wild over it. It is still
the custom in England that when a
Queen remarks a thing, especially
in an admiring way, it must be
olfered hor immediately. Queen
Mary seems to have a special knowl
edge of this Inexorable law, and,
worst of all, she never fails to take
advantage of it.
Imagine the consternation ot
the Duke, who wns standing behind
the Queen at tho time when he saw
ills noblo spouse had no intention of
complying with the unwritten law!
Tho Duchess quickly turned the
conversation, remarking about some
old Charlln palnting3 hanging on
tho walls which It wa3 her idea to
got rid of shortly.
Tho Duke tried in vain to eaten
her oye over the Queen's Khoulder.
She would not look. A cold persDl
ration covered his whole body like
a filmy cloak. Sucn a breach of eti
quette was unknown in royal circles.
No, she would not look, anil tho
poor Duke felt I1I3 knee3 giving way
and bending liko the blades of a
jackknlfe. A last effort for an Im
perative signal that would force tho
Duchess to proffer, then and there.
the precious china; aeblprUtaiifl
so loudly that every oaj fcjH
like corn in a popper. Ths Dttkl
alone seemed ob'llvlotis, of CMiH
willfully so, of this asoDhbf riifl
tiou, and deliberately led tii
into the adjoining salon.
After Her MajestT'B iwwm
there was a ecene. IV
"Why did you not offer QmH
Mary that tea set?" ijm
"She shan't have it," m&mS
Duchess. '9
"She shan't have it, I m
willing to hand over mjr plakjA
raond necklace, she naj csrfK
tho old stove on which BlebttlB
Lion-Hearted warmed his cospB
feet, or oven ray old Fifth ftjfl
Byzantine jewel case that
ward gave me right before tin
nation, but the Sevres wareA!
not have. I like it more OalB
thing I have or could em to'JR
have, and" j'mT
"Enough of this rot," iduW
Irato Duke, "tho law Is tfci
And so It turned out JM
flection after her gTief-fl
was akin to anger-ora H,V
Sevres tea set wsb duly
shipped with a note of a w
meant submissive compllw"
the honor, joy, etc. IB
Queen Mary Is mVS
for herself. It Is said Vm
ready landed moro stuff 1
months than a half down IV
gather in a lifetime. . V
Tho knowing ones M
Countess Fitzwllliam !
heaviest sufferers Uon W
exaggerated appreciate K
beautiful-expensive. MM
The amount of M,llSVm
mine, furs, peorla J "JJJM
the fascinating yu.DjXHW
given up haslarselT rtWgSm
royal wardrobe, wbrfa
rare furniture and cj en
priceless paintings .fM
tho family forj cen Uriel wj
been overlooked b WB "
Queen Mary. icMB
A funny story is tftfoJR
the inner courc et J
Fitzwliliam's ewspo ration
Queen had hK
capo ovor half an hnoJhrJotf
function. ThoQteengjSM
ten it away from be.
fore. , nail KK
The Queen doe "J I fm
tlrltles to thonoblHt
Islands. VVbHo In Defl
the coronation, hVfmre SdB
derful collection of Ig rfV
and brought tacJjJW
the greatest trej "7eatocfc
there, "1 he ag fe fatf if
steel
In tho British Museum
see it at will. llS
Poor old Schaiger -covered
from tfw Wo Jltl4
Tho Queen admirer -m
given. 'm
