Mountain Home bulletin. (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1888-1889, 1888-09-08
WH,MS OF WOMEN.


u new YORK SHOE. Dealer Cn0to ABOUT Ills
Fair Customers.
Eyes, it takes unlimited patience to
fit shoes now, but always like to tit
fidget of woman. even if it is work
Of art, for she will 90 and tell all the
other fidgets in her set. and they will
say: 20. if he can fit Mrs. X. who is
very particular. he can surely fit me!
So they will all come. and it is the fussy
women who buy the most expensive
shoes. Three-fourths Of the women
wear shoes too small. or, if they have
their shoes made to order. we have to
mark them smaller size than they are
or they will not be satisfied. II II shoe
must be tight. let it be in width rather
than length. for short shoes are the
bane of shoe dealers and the essential
blessing and creators of chiropodists.
Women resent long shoe in peculiar
way. though they will accept a wide
one without murnur. There seems to
be certain disgrace in No. 5 length.
but no stigmai is attached to double E
width. Some ladies' after they are mar
red rise above their follies SD far rs
they themselves are concerned. but de-
vote their energies to making cripples
Of their children by crowding their feet
into tiny, fancy little boots. and some
women never overcome their vanity IL
Ibis line.
.lknow lady whose hair is as white
rs mine and whose age approximate;
sixty, who will insist upon wearing the
.ame-sized shoe she wore when girl,
though she has gained twenty five
pounds in flesh. 1t is the most singular
thing about women, this obstinacy
about their shoes. All over my store
are signs reading: ID not wear toe
short shoes Insist on bong properly
fitted and yet three-fohlths of The
ladies go out with shoes that max,
them wretched. and had as lief go u
their dentist as to come here to b.
fitted"
The different varieties of shoes nov
run up in the hundreds. There are thu
new kid walking boots. both high an,
low. with a diamond-shaped tip o
patent leather, most popular of all, thu
natty little patent leather vamped boo
with cloth tops, the house shoe Of plail
soft kid. the party shoe. as soft as
glove, with sole so thin that it cal
be rolled up like n shaving; the scarle
seaside shoe. the new half shoe of III
dressed kid in delicate gray or tan
with the heavy George Whshingto
buckle of oxidizcd silver on the toe O
fastened in bow Of soft ribbon on til
strap which buckles about the inster
These slippers have high Louis XIV
heels, and are exquisite producer
of pain. A natty little shoe @
scarlet leather, cut down low at til
sides like mans slipper, is displayed
and slippers with nothing in the bac
but n sole are called mules. and made {
scarlet leather for bedroom use.
Party slippers are of bronze. Ut
dressed kid. or black kid, with the larg
silver buckles, or embroidery of bead,
while brides slippers and shoes ar
made of the material of their wcddin
gowns, either with or without en-
broidery of pearls. and cost $l5 or 81
Perhaps the most bewitching piece {
foot gear manufactured is ladies
riding boot, with its patent leatht
vamps and top and soft kid legs. SOM
times fringe of gold bullion tinish'
these boots at the top with tiny d
pending tassels Of gilt y. Sun