The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-20
/ MISS FIELDS SHOES.
Kate's Pretty but Expensive
Pedals.

Il is q OF upon her handsome bonnets.
that Miss Field prizes herself. Her par
ticulsr vanity 10 her elegant foot gear
She has her shoes L3ade in Paris, and
they are marvels of exquisite workman
ship. She has very small feet, and she
dresses them in The costliest material.
One large trunk il devoted to boots,
CATERS and slippers, and these she has in
every conceivable style, from alliga.or
shoes, reaching high above the ankle, to
delicate kid slippers that 8 Cinderella
might envy Miss Field says she never
had corn in her life, and this she claims
is due to her care Of her feet. American
shoemskers, she declares, insist upon
squeezing the foot, thereby destroying
the naturally graceful shape of that mem
br and subjecting peraon to permanent
torture from excrescencee. My shoe
maker in Paris makes and sends me two
pairs Of shoes every month. / will not
wear q shoe that is ripped, torn or worn
out, because that is slovenly; and L will
not wear mended shoe, for patching q
shoe destroys its symmetry and is apt to
occasion an unnatural pressure upon the
foot" Miss Field has q number Of
curious shoes; one pair Of heece-lined
ssndalettes, presented her by Sig Cas-
tellar; q pair of lace slippers, a gift from
Sir Charles Dixie; several Chinese shoes,
Javanese sandals and Turkish slippers.
Knowing her humor for these things,
Governor Murray, of Utah, recently
gave her a pair Of high-topped boots
manufactured from the skin of the Rocky
Mountsin sheep, and lined with the fleece
of that adventuresome animal.-Wash-
ington Republic.
When married man reads such
statements as the above, he is at
once beset by host of contendipg
emotions; and for one who centem.
plates matrimeny to be confronted
by that array of statistics is posi-
lively discouraging. Two pairs of
shoes a month, and made in Paris,
tool II, az is so often asserted, there
is a divinity that shapes our ends,
the said divinity in this particular
case is conducting its shaping on
altogether toe eXtravagant q basis
for ordinary people. The only
theory upon which this unusual
state of affairs can be reconciled is
the fact that the lady in question has
no husband to support. The state
ment that one large trunk is devoted
to shoes might not be so startling if
we only knew W hat siZ - of shoes Kate
wears, but we don't and have never
been able to find out. AS we are "a
sured that her feet are small, it is
perhaps a matter of more conseS
quence to ascertain the capacity OF
the tronk, but even that article,
like her conduct, is beyond the
scrutiny Of msn. And she doesn't
like American shOemakers, because
their workmanship produces pres.
sure on the foot; if this is purely
American fault, it is good
one, and this is the first instance on
record Of lady Of manageable
years complaining Of her pedal ex
tremities being pressed. It ia gen
orally considered delightful sensa-
ton by the presser and the pressed.
All the gifts referred to would be
overlooked but for the one last
mentioned-that from our esteemed
Governor. 1t Ia evident that when
the bill for them was sent in He
did not veto it; but we hope the size
ordered was not in accordance with
His peculiar system of gauges
measurements and figures; if they
were, how are we to know whether
they were twos or tWelvesp