Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-02-26

and such we're the dainty boots that won
mems hearts. 20 times. o customs. how
changed YOU arein Up to the last year or
40 womer's feet have been steadily de-
creasing IN size. A young shoe merchant
told me yesterday when | timidly APP
preached him on this subject that the
sizes of ladies' feet ranged all the way
from tiny little ISIS up to ponderous No.
SIS. lie said the girls were not Dit more
foolish about wearing shoes too small
than the men--in fact, the latter were
worse, il anything. My friend told mo
that the average feminine foot OF to-day
ranged in size Of from 20 4, and that
these numbers. with a narrow last, were
considered quite small enough. Even g..
IL built on the "beef-tongue" plan. isn't
by any means regarded rs an euormity.
All the girls are wearing narrow shoes
now. and 30 OF course they have
10 get them little longer than
usual. / examined his stock with the
greatest interest. aud finally 1 said "Show
me those No. &c." He displayed the giants
and inspected them critically. but really.
sweet ones, you who wear this No, they
aren't half 80 large as our Sc. They were
quite narrow, too, and positively they
didn't strike me as being enormities at all.
Nevertheless. draw the line at No. IS.
Photographs and looking glasses are TO
the vain what cheese is to mica source
OF infinite JOY and unalloved bliss. The
mirror gives satisfaction only to the indi-
vidual who beholds bimseif, but there is
something more unseltsh IN his love TOT
photographs. for by means OF the latter he
Is enabled 70 convey 10 his friends the
benefits of those enhancing visions which
he himself enjoys. The camera artist OF
to-day, like the newspaper gets BIS
eigiree everywhere. for in some respects he
initiates the scribes and plays upon mems
weaknesses by appealing to that sensitive
emotion known as conceit. He captures
tho young man who appears before
the public IN an amateur game OF
baseball. he seizes the artists "
who take part Ia private thea,rl-
of EifIel Tower, and he decoys the tourist
who floats down the current of life IN
Venetian gondola. His lenses peep at
dainty bellies and kiss the soft cheeks OF
lovely women. They catch the tiny
cherubs in their dlmpled youth, aud.
cruel though the contrast may be: they
portray the quIyering wrinkles aud frosty
BAR of sad old age. So. too, the Gamers,
plants itself upon 1.-THE sad-sea strand "
and boldly SEXES the mermaids who dip
into the surf. or, rather. those Dynphs
whose architectural qualification" can
stand the ordeal and whose bathing suits
are CONNIE IL CdR. All this is legitimate
and can stand it. but where must the
line be drawn? Some months. ago
| attended the funeral OF father
and mother and three little chill
dren, who were oil killed by lightning.
As the coriege entered the church l saw
photographer preparing to do the instan-
taneous act" on the sad procession. This
struck me as being pretty bad. but re-
Gently saw even worse form OF the
within. Two students of the Medical Col
lege conceived the original idea Of having
their pictures taken in the dissectiug-room
with Chris. Baker. the ghouiish darky OF
the institution. and acting On their M
pulses they secured photographer. The
result of the combined efforts of the quar-
tette is ghastly, 10 say tho least. The
students are depicted as standing over the
mutilated corpse in their gowns, and with
CHRIS. Baker as a centre-piece for the por-
trait. In front OF them lies the BODY. a
wrinkled. mummifed mass of flesh. which
has been pItilessy sliced by the scaIpel.
The photograph does not represent sem
timent yielding to SCIENCE, but vanity con-
quering the respect that Is more than due
the dead.