The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-08-16

Look you--that is, don't look at all at
a mans face or form till you contem-
plate his feet. Here is fat foot, rather
broad and bulging. III is inside shin
ing patent leather shoe. Above tho
shoe is a stocking the fieriest that scar
let dye can achieve. Now. don't look
up at the man just yet-till the hosiery
character expert tells you. You will
find nine times out of ten that the wear
er of the fiery hose is a fat man. good
natured looking, but a little careless ir
+ his general appearance and apt to be a
( blunderer among the details of eti-
quette.
/ Next the fat mans feet is a pair very
different The feet themselves are neat
and slender and shod in black ties of
the best make without wrinkle. AS
the man sat down he adjusted his trou-
sers SO that his hose, the pride Of his
eye, could be seen to advantage. That
pair OF hose is black, but of the finest
quality of isle thread or silk. There is
no touch of color in them except deli
cate blue clocking that runs up his
neatly turned ankle as a morning glory
vine twines around a post. or. mayhap.
at times he will display the faintest bit
of black openwork over his slim instep
instead of the blue clock running up
the ankle.
| This is your neat. tasteful. correct
| man. In small details Of conduct he
| knows Just what 10 do and when to do
| it, Looking over the remainder of his
attire, you perceive IL is studiously
quiet, though of the best make and cut.
| In dress and department he is ostenta-
tiously unostentatious. He Is the critic
I, i'm small matters.
| Then come three pairs of the most
awful stockings mortal ever laid eyes
on. one pair is brilliant grass green.
The second pair is red and black, the
colors of the arch demon. The hues are
blended in a way most cunning. Daz-
zling scarlet Is the front. AZ intervals
over the instep and up the ankle are
cross rings of black, as IL were. the
clasps and bands of a sandal but this
liz humbug and a snare. The black
clasps and rings are part of she woven
stocking. Beside the stockings that dis
play the demons colors is pair in daz-
zling green and purple up and down
stripes alternating These three pairs OF
most villainous hose incase the feet OF
a trio of youths ignorant crude and un-
developed to the last degree, youths OF
sixteen TO twenty They are going to
| "a morse race. ne man VI SubtuSu
sporting instincts wears sky blue silk
hose or pale gray livened up with polka
dots OF some brighter tint.
Now you come TO a pair of high shoes
of calfskin. They are not well polished.
| they are not laced up all the way they
look as If the wearer had habit OF
setting them down regardless of what
/ they stepped upon. Wrinkied down ana
falling over the tops OF those shoes you
will see white stockings, or. mayhap.
that once were white. Such are the feet
OF the disgruntled old fellow who has
ceased 10 care for anybody or anything
| except his own personal desires and
comforts.
But here. and last OF all. behold a
twain of yellow shoes. number twelves,
one would say. The Nose may be OK
any color but the shoes are high; they
are thrust defiantly out In the middle OF
| the car like "a pair OF leather trunks.
/ Women brush their clean skirts upon
! them. children trip and stumble over
them. but their owner cares not iot.
They are his feet, aren't they7 He re-
CARDS this planet and all that thereon 10
as swinging through the universe for his
I sole use and convenience. The only
way 10 down his whalelke- conceit Is 10
attract his attention from himself In
some way and then gaze steadily and
unwinkingly at those feet. IL may re-
auire ten minutes. but sooner or later
/ the owner Of the colossal yellows VIII
manifest uneasiness. then with crane
,snd derrick like motion haul them In.
ALICE A. BROWNE