The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1889-02-28
PEDAL POINTS.

Minnie Palmer affects light uppers.
Fanny Davenport is inclined to point
cd toes.
Clara Morris takes comfort in glove
kid boot9.
Mrs. Lucretla Mott alheres to the old
prunella shoe.
Marion Harland's shoes like her prin-
elples, are broad.
Mrs. Frances Folsom's feet are always
faultlessly dressed.
Lottis wear a shoe that might be tax
en- for Cinderella's.
Marie RoZe has real French foot and
dresses it accordingly.
Emma Abbott wears French ties until
cold weather nips her toes.
Modjeska's pedal extremities look
well In russell leather boots.
Rosa Bonheur thinks it no disgrace to
have good understanding.
Mrs. Lsngtry's feet are generally in.
Oased In patent leather tips"
Mrs. Frances Hodgsou Burnett wears
Q common sense walking boot.
Mile. Rhea wears the thinnest Of
French kids, winter and summer.
Mrs. Paran Stevens has an English
foot, but prefers American shoes.
Miss Frances E. Willard wears sub
stantial goat skin with low heels.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher wears cloth
CATERS of the old Congress pattern.
Sarah Bernhard changes the styles Of
her shoes as often as she does her moods.
Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt usually
wears cloth uppers and patent leather
tips.
Miss Abigail Dodge Gail Hamilton)
wears straight goat boots laced high on
the ankle.
Mrs. Hicks Lord varies her shoes with
her costumes, and always shows a trim
looking foot.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wears
cork soled boots, meant for sturdy yeo-
mems service.
Miss Kate Field has fancy for wear
ing shoes of all nationalities except per-
hsps, the Chinese.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox always wears
fancy slippers in doors, with handsomely
embroidered stockings.
Miss Jeanette Chamberlain has a
high srched foot, which looks well IN a
No. Q A A. French boot.
Mrs. Amelie Rives Chanler has SYM
critically shaped foot, which looks well
In Louis QuinZe slipper.
Mary Anderson wears sensible En-
glish walking boot with a solid founda
ton, not conducive to corns.
Maggie Mitchell likes an old shoe best;
not quite such dilapidated one, how
ever, as she wears in "Fanchon,
Adelina Patti incases her comely feet
in dainty French kids. Her fascinating
house slippers are marvels in their line
Mrs. John Bigelow is sometimes seen
in moccasins in public, and is not par.
ticular in the size or make of her shoes
Mrs. Harriet Lane johnson has ar
aristocratic foot, and steps as stately at
queen. She is seldom seen in slippers
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has an utter
detestation for new shoes. and clings to
her old ones with the greatest tenacity
Mrs. Morton makes a specially OF
shoes, and sometimes upsets the equili-
brium of her Crispin by unfavorable
criticism.
Christine Nilsson wears shoes long and
broad enough for each to- to have a
resting place of its own and still have
room to spare.
Mrs. Frank Leslie dresses her feet as
carefully as she does the rest of her per-
son, and always has her shoes made on
the Spanish last.
Miss Marion Langdon has a foot as
foot as dainty as fay's, and when trip
ping In the dance expires es the very
poetry of motion.
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison cares more
for comfort than looks in her shoes, but
will doubtless put her best foot foremost
in the White House.
Mrs, Secretary Whitney is as careful
in the fit of her shoes as in that of her
dresses, and has them altered until they
fit without wrinkle.
Mrs. James Brown Potter's feet look
best in Louis Quatorze slippers. She has
. shapely foot, always neatly dressed,
and doesn't mind windy weather.
Mrs. Albert Stephens, nee Brady, wears
Clotu UOolb Win patent lealner tTlm-
mings. Her white satin slippers look as
though they might belong to TItania.
Mics Adele Grant numbers the style
and variety Of her shoes with her admir-.
ers, but her feet never look better than
when incased in black satin slippers.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland never cramps
her feet by trying to put a No. foot
into No. shoe, and believe that there
is as much character in a foot as IN
shapely hand.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, when in
health, is frequently seen in arctics that
would make girl of the period almost
faint at the mere suggestion of bearing
such burdens.
Mrs. Bradley Martin is as great con-
noisseur in shoes as she is in precious
stones, and while her diamond sun lends
brilliancy to the upper part of her body,
her faultIessly fitting shoes set off to ad-
vantage her shapely feet. 5t..Hb
Mrs. Kate Chase Sprague has foot
that would delight an artists eye. 1t lie
always clothed IN the nattiest of boots.
1t used to be the sensation OF the day at
Old Point Comfort when this pretty wo
man went down to dip her tiny feet into
the wafer.