The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-07

sermon on that subject would not come
emiss at this season of the year.
The reference is TO the literal thing
that carelessness regarding the leather
heels Of ones boots. which gives to any
woman's costume the hopeless expression
which has made run down at the heels
a current phrase for many otherwise un-
defnable conditions.
The best bootmaker in Philadelphia
gave me the advice, I tell it to you as it
was told to me. For the timely advice
suits men as well as women.
"a boot that would last twice as long
is hopeless even for our medicine Of WI
ard lasts after the owner has persisted
IN wearing 1t for several weeks. when the
support that should be given BY a rightly
shaped heel is taken away" he said.
1.-The heel lis the first place to wear on
many women's shoes. If she would i'm
mediately lave the break attended to
she could save the shape of the shoe and
instep."
II hope this heel-wearing isn't because
American women are given over to that
disagreeable fashion of planting down,
heel first. when walking. You know the
well bred French woman thinks that fault
as bad as eating with ones knife" /
suggested.
It must confess" he answered, "that I
fear that is the cause. The fault is not
national; it is widespread. Delsarte has
done much to abolish it, for nc woman
can be truly graceful who walks with up
pointed toes"
81 know anew Orleans woman OF social
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a guest enters her house with that step.
My dear she eclaims. raising both her
little hands, I assure you it is very hard
for me to believe She is a lady. To walk
with ones h~eels-ughr and a shrug of the
shoulders follows"
I am not helping the bootmakers when
I advocate amateur Delsarte for the wom-
an who discovers that she walks on her
heels by the rapid decrease in the height
of her leather heels.
There are a pair Of remedies. Learn to
walk toes first,'' and take your boot to
a repair shop at the first glimmering sign
of decsdence.
If you are quite hopeless at first your
bootman will put a broad metal clamp
through the back of the heel, covering it
with the last thin layer Of leather to
bviate that Objectionable ring when walk
ing.
The reasons. for not wearing boots,
otherwise good, but with rundown heels,
are well known to the bootman.
The foot is thrown ~unevenly forward to
the ball, which rapidly begins to wear
unequaIly.
The instep buttons are quickly frightened
by the strain beyond their due.
The seam which runs down the centre
gapes and tears.
The toes, especially IL pointed, curl up
in front. and these complications cause a
very sick shoe, indeed.
What would have been a boot, although
worn out, still kept its shape, is soon a
wretched looking affair that any woman
with only a modicum of vanity would
hate to think was hers, should she. come
face to face with it In a trash barrel.
So don't let your heels run down.
s.
And when you are supervising the
structure of the heel be also careful
about its gloss. l heard a bachelor say
he fell out of love with a girl, who, he
found out when he sat behind her in
church, had powdered her face and left
the back OF her throat untouched. Had
she only powdered all he wouldn't have
minded SO much But the color division
there was Like the color division between
the bay and the gulf when they meet.
She would be the kind of housewife, he
said, who would serve a steak on a dish
whose edges had not been wiped.
Likewise, with a seemingly weil-shod
woman, who lifts her gown to display
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careful about that extra bit of polish
at the back.
Those women who have time, inclina-
tion and shekels are collecting handker-
chiefs.
There are only a dozen really valuable
collections SO far in the States. The de-
butante daughter of Mr.. J. J.. Van Allen.
ar Newport, has the finest box in Amer
Tea Here, with Nine. Emma Fame
storey's and young Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney's, are the three priceless histor-
teal collections.
The famous American singer has prob
ably the most famous handkerchiefs
She owns one that is said TO have be-
longed to the fair Juliet, a thin, fine one
of Rachefs and one that the great Mrs
Siddons used.
OF course. she does not care for those
belonging to her contemporaries who are
no higher in art than herself, but the
young collector who is not great, will
pay much for a bit that Calve has used
or Melba has torn to shreds. While many
of the matinee girls" are even coins
in for one of sothern's or John Drew's
or Ada Rehan's.
Miss Van Aliens collection is not con.
fined by any means to linen having thea
tricaI value.
h has ancient Venetian and Moorish
affairs of exquisite fabric. Some of sill
are big enough to wrap around ones
head.
An authentic Marie Antoinette repose.
in her cabinet. 1t is of solid yalen-
c~iennes, with Marie worked below 9
crown in the centre medallion. A copy o,
that famous Mary Stuart one, owned BY
a French duchess, is also in her posses.
sion.
The last, safe to say, she paid a good
~ part Of her months allowance for.
Next to 1t, and in great contrast. is q
bit Of stern, u~nfeminine, unadorned liner
that belonged TO George Eliot, and nov
she has put in an offer for one of Mrs
Harriet Beecher Stoves.
Sir Roderick Cameron's daughter. tn,
one who was bridesmaid to the Counties,