The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-21
MAN AND HIS HOSE.

The oxford tie fashion of shoes 10 q
boon to man. Little scope has he to
indulge color fancy in the severe dark
hued garm in which custom demands he
mits low cut shoes all the current OF his
being sets to colored stockings.
Glance along the row of masculine feet
in a street car. Each particular individ-
ual who retains any of the proper pride
of man in his personal appearance has
his trousers pulled IN above the knee to
the exact distance which will reveal be-
tween the bottom of that garment and
the top of the polished oxford three inches
Of colored hosiery.
You can read a mans character by his
stockings.
Look you-that is. don't look at all at
plate his feet. Here is a fat foot, rather
broad and bulsins. 1t is inside shining
patent leather shoe. Above the shoe IL
a stocking the fieriest that scarlet dye
man Just yet-till the hosiery character
expert tells you. You will find nine times
out OF ten that the wearer of the fiery
nose Is rat man, good natured looking,
pearance and apt to be a blunderer among
details of etiquette.
Next the fat mans feet is a pair very
dinerent. The feet themselves are neat
and slender and shod in black ties Of
the best make. without a wrinkle As
the man sat down he adjusted his trous-
ers so that his hose, the pride of his
e esr co Sos oe seen 10 That
quality OF isle thread or silk. There il
no touch of color in them except q del
icate blue clocking that runs up his neatly
turned ankle as a morning glory vine
twines around post, or, mayhap. at
times he will display the faintest bit OF
black openwork over his slim instep in
ankle.
This is yo,ir Yeat ia atefuI correct man
In small details of conduct he knows just
what to do and when to do 1t. Looking
over the remainder of his attire, you per-
ceive it Is studiously quiet. though OF the
ment he is ostentatiously unostentauous.
He is the critic in small matters.
Then come three pairs of the most
awful stockings mortal ever laid eyes
second pair Is red and black, the co1ors
of. the arch demon. The hues are blended
In a way most cunning. Dazzling scarlet
is the front. At intervals over the in
step and up the ankle are cross rings Of
black as 1t were the clasps and bands
Of a sandal: but this is humbug and q
snare. The black clasps are part Of the
that display the demons colors 10 o pair
in dazzling green and purple up ana down
stripes alternating. These three pairs of
most villainous hose incase the feet OF
trio of youths ignorant. crude and I'M
developed to the last degree, youths OF
16 to 20. They are going to a horse race
The man of subdued sporting instincts
wears sky blue silk hose or pale gray
livened up with polka dots of some bright
er tint.
Now you come to a pair of high shoes
of calfskin. They are not we'll polished,
they are not laced UP all the way: they
look as If the wearer had habit OF set
ting them down regardless of what they
stepped upon Wrinkled down and fall
ing over the tops of these shoes you will
see white stockings, or. mayhap, that
once were white Such are the feet of
the disgruntled old fellow who has ceased
to 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 hose may be of any
color but the shoes are high; they are
thrust deflantly out in the middle Of the
car like pair OF leather trunks. Wo-
men brush their clean skirts upon them,
children trip and stumble over them but
their owner cares not a jot. They are
his feet, aren't they? He regards this
planet and all that thereon is as swinging
through the universe for his sole use and
convenience. The only way to down his
whalelike conceit Is to attract his at
tention from himself In some way and
then gaze steadily and unwinkingy at
those feet 1t may require ten minutes.
but sooner or later the owner of the CO.
lossal yellows will manifest uneasness,
then with a crane and derrick like motion
haul them in. Alice A. Brown.