Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-03-12
She Buys a Pair of Shoes.

Cue StnlllpB cleTk:
EDO you keep ladies' shoes here ?"
eve do" he promptly answered.
For more than three weeks she
had had her mind made up for pair
which laced up on the inside, and all
her friends had encouraged her idea,
but it wouldn't have been like q
woman to ask the clerk for that par
ticular style.
"Let's see =? Let's see?" she mused,
"I suppose you have the French
heel ?"
90 yes," he answered. and he
soon had twenty pairs before her.
She closely inspected each pair,
from two's up tc SKIS, asked the
grade of material in each, and twice
during the fifteen minutes she seemed
on the point of trying on a pair.
"Are you sure these are French
heel? ?" she finally asked.
ooh, yes; you can be sure of
that"
Well, I guess I won't buy any
to-day. I did not think some of
looking at some button Shoes"
"Certainly. Here is large va
riey. Do you wish kid?"
II presume" she answered, as
she wet her finger and rubbed the
heel of shoe, I" that kid will wear
longer than morroco?"
"Of course. These are patent
buttons, You see."
"Yes, I see. If I buy a pair of
button shoes I shall insist on tho
patent button"
Didn't you want q pair OF
these?"
"Let's see ?" she mused again,
fastening her eyes on the top shelf.
She was buried in the deepest
thought for long minute, and the
clerk drew long breath. Then her
eyes gradually dropped from shelf TO
shelf until they rested on his garnet
neck tye, and she said:
"Not to-day. Have you shoes
with lace ?"
"Oh, yes"
"Those with lace in front?"
Yes'm. Here is something fine.
I can sell you pair for twenty
shillings."
"Can you? Why shoes must
have either gone up or down! Shoes
which lace in front are stylish, arn't
they?
"Oh, yes.
care they as good as any ?"
"Just as good. I can recommend
the material in these shoes, as they
were made for us in Detroit. Will
you not try on a pair?
She seemed about to do so. She
looked over at the lounge. seized
pair of three's, and was then halted
by new idea. She put the shoes
down, let her eyes drop to the floor.
and after q mental calculation OF
seventy seconds she suddenly in
quired:-
"Did you say that you had shoes
that laced on the side?'
"Yes. we have. Would you like
to see them? ?"
She hesitated, looked up and
down the shelves as if perplexed,
and finally said she would. He
emptied two boxes, praised the ma
terial, aud advised her by all means
to get those shoes if she wanted to
be in style and have a good fit.
CT can't wear threes," she Oh
served, as she partly turned away,
"but owing"
Yes'm. You do not want
glove fitting shoe. You are very
sensible on that point. Fives are
much too large, o! course. but they
arc better for the feet in Winter.
, These are fves, but very small ones.
In some stores they would be marked
threes."
{" l guess I'll try them on" she
! family remarked, as she sat down.
"Yes'm. I'm sure"
No he wasn't. She had suddenly
paused again. What if there was a
hole in the heel of her stocking!
Suppose her big toe had worked
through, as big toes sometimes will!
81 can try them on alone, she
finally said, and while the clerk was
busy on the other side of the coun-
ter she ,ipped the buttons of her
right shoe, pulled it off and got her
foot into the new one. 1t was a
pinch. Her toes felt cramped and
her heel complained.
DO they fit" asked the clerk as
lie leaned over the counter.
She didn't say.
Perhaps you had better try skies
with broad sole and low instep,
he suggested.
What" she exclaimed as heI
face reddened, "why l can hardly
find my ioot i'll these! I'll take them
on account of my chilblains, but II
only wear them around the house
Very well, I'll wrap them up