The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-07-22

a great thing, but beauty Of garments,
house and furniture is = very tawdry
ornament compared with human love.
All the elegance in the world will not
make home, and I would give more
for a spoonful of hearty love than for
shiploads of furniture, and all the
upholstcrers of the world could gather
together.-( Theodore Parker.
Selling Shoes.
The latest thing in shoe stores, says
the Chicago Inter Ocean, is a long
French mirror that reaches within two
inches of the floor, and before which
every pretty-tooted woman who buys a
pair of shoes spends from thirty min
utes to an hour and half '.getting
the effect of the boot. The senior
partner in State street house was
asked how the mirror affected the
trade. He ran his hands up his snowy
white cuffs. smiled and replica: 1T
sells better than anything we ever had
in the house. We have only had 1t
about two years, but we wouldn't be
without it half an hour. Do you see
those two ladies over there? Well,
they're waiting to get the mirror to
see how their shoes look.'
At the time the glass reflected a
young woman seated between two men
the clerk and her husband. She was
faul:lessly dressed, and her feet had
just been laced into a matchless pair
of patent leather ties foxed with alli-
gator skin. She wore some sort of
blue hosiery striped vertically
with a brocade of twisted silks and
just tho suggestion of Hamburg ruftle
was visible below her dress binding.
For the first few minutes she sat with
her toes out, alternately tapping them
in all degrees of time. Then she
crossed them with much grace and de-
liberation; the next move Was the first
position which she regarded with coy
admiration. Without any interruption
of facial expression she suddenly thew
one leg over her knee. arranged her
skirts so as to just show the tinted
hosiery, and began to swing the top
foot.
Then she ''didn't think they looked
graceful, somehow and while the
clerk declared lit was the prettiest fit
he had turned out that afternoon the
ankles were at right angles with each
other, while the toes played tattoo on
the carpet that Rosina Vokes would APP
plaud. The lido hurry, Claude
which her husband made, in a suppl
eating voice, was responded to by a
sudden elevation of the feet and a CON-
ing together of the two pointed toes,
the curve described being positively
hoidenish.
Nov, you see that the shoe lets my
ankle turn it it. Won't you indulge
me with another tit, please?''
''Certainly. just Step to the second
divan, please;' and the husband saun-
tered off to the door, leaving Claude
and the clerk to make the new deal
without his valuable suggestions.
She had scarcely reached the next
department when stout lady from La
Sale avenue with a pair of small feet
in smaller pair of French-kid boots.
took the mirror divan. She was evil
IDENTITY making her debut before the
French plate, as all she did was to toe
out, looking mere at feet than into the
mirror. Her stay was much shorter
than the belle who followed. and 'ieci-
dedly less interesting. 10 begin with,
she was pretty; she wore suit of cha.
mois-co]ored tricot and TWO stockings,
one mulberry and the other olive,
each fretted with the opposite tint.
Her boots were lusterless kid, cut very
low in the heel, with tapering toe and
patent leather vamps tipped with kid
She turned her toes in, aud out, car.
ried her foot in all attitudes, bent then
for waltz, and carriage step, and 8
roller skate, and caused the attending
clerk to furl his eyebrows when she
"wishcd there was fender.'
''Oh, we get used to them. It's thu
same. or about the same posing al
day: We try to make the glass gcner
al, but can't. Only the ladies who
have pretty feet use it. Those who
wear a No. 5 or shoe don't do mucl
tlourishing with them. However, tn,
glass is not without its benefits, ant
we do quite q. little gratuitous school
ing in tie etiqutte of heels and toes
To illustrate: There are plenty O
women who wear good foot gear, anc
are woefully ignorant in all that per
tains to pretty effect. Halt of the toe:
are turned in, and another fourth poin
squarely front, both positions giving ;
bulky appearance to the foot.
Our patrons. who are alike our par
agons, make the very best use of theil
feet. and the various maneuvers the,
exhibit, unconsciously in most cases
we endeavor to teach the semi-uncouth
The carriage of the foot is as much :
science as any branch of physical cul
ture, and when woman knows some
thing about the subject, all she need
is nice shoe to make her feet lool
pretty. Pretty feet are not the impor
tant feature they are supposed to be
tor shoes get out of shape, and an in
differently shod foot is equally insight
", whether the foot is big or little
Beauty of foot lies as much in correc
shoeing as a mans shape in the skill
and tact of his tailor
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