{Let US Step Back In The Past} Advice To Ladies
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
May 1, 2020 8:06am CST
This article expounds upon the importance of ensuring that you are playing footsy with the correct gentleman.
Be careful, however, never to attempt it at a crowded table for fear of making a mistake. We once saw a lady very much confused who was trying to signal a gentleman -- and instead pressed on the covered toes of an old bachelor. He bore it as long as he could, and then very quietly remarked. "Madam when you wish to step on a gentleman's toes, be particular and get the toes that belong to him- for the last five minutes you have been jamming my corns most unmercifully.
So ladies, take the advice from July 20th, 1842 in The Camden Journal (SC). When playing footsie aim for the young bachelor and not the old one! 
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5 responses
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 May 20
I'm sure I'd probably have been the type to step on their toes and step on them hard!
Not out of some flirtation either!
Not out of some flirtation either!1 person likes this
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 May 20
As would I! I just know that I'd end up playing footsie with the wrong man!
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@FourWalls (86740)
• United States
1 May 20
I’ll keep that in mind if I ever want to play footsie or ever get in a restaurant again. 
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 May 20
I feel like we'll all be hesitant on getting into a restaurant again.
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@LindaOHio (222417)
• United States
1 May 20
So it's OK to scuff a gentleman's shoe? How quaint. :-)
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 May 20
Apparently it isn't just OK, but it's proper Or, at the very least, so says the article in reference to women's feet.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
1 May 20
I thought it was a piece of advice that we could use today and not just in the past!
