The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1913-12-11
BLACKSTONE
The Sage Of The Old Prison, and August
Authority on Things Generally, Con-
tributes a Column Of Pithy Paragraphs.

tIipuleS C0lunln OF Pitny Paragraphs.
Good resolutions in prison often spoil
before they are used.
Wooden shoes are made in this country
and cost from 90 to rs cents per pair. No
doubt some of the school teachers could
dispose of few pairs, to match their pupils
heads.
Conditions in the leather market continue
to be unstable and shoe manufacturers are
kept guessing. All of the trade journals
predict higher prices, one stating that the
price for shoes will go higher than the
widest predictions of the radicals.
An analysis of orders for next spring and
summer show increases for dress shoes in
patent, dull calf and kid shoes. Rubber
sole shoes show large increase while the
demand for boots and oxfords is less than
any former season. The West gives pref
erence to "Mary Jane styles. The East
is more English, and favors English styles.
| omitted to state last week in my notes
that it takes seven tons of shoes to make
the car load lot that is shipped daily from
Lynn, Mass.
The shoe Office lost good clerk when
Mac left us on Saturday, but our loss is
the Mirrors gain, so here's wishing our
new Editor success in his new role.
SELF, Schwab & Co., tell in Glide and
Leather how and why they started their
Blue Ribbon Line of Shoe. There entire
line was composed of over eleven hundred
numbers and listening to the complaint of
too many styles they called in their
road salsemen, and asked them to vote for
the best forty four styles the forty-four
shoes which received the highest votes are
separated into special line. "The Blue
Ribbon Lin" the merchant can concen-
trate his buying on this line and save money
at the same time secure good stylish shoes.
Don't you often wonder, how the world
worried along for ages without low cut
shoes' Think of wearing long legged boots
and no chance to display the latest startling
effects in silk hosiery.
The ''Tango" says Annie Rittenhouse is
responsible for new style dancing shoe
it is heelless slipper with dainty satin
ribbons to anchor it to the feet of the dan
GER. The doctors also are having their say
to the effect of dancing fifteen varieties
of the one step, the Argentine tango and
the Brazilian maxixe, in which the heelless
shoe and the corsetless waist win victory,
The Salvation Army in England is in
the boot and shoe trade both as manufac-
turer and retailer. On account of the low
price at which their product is sold they
are meeting much criticism for using funds
given for religious purposes in this way.
A new heel for the coming season is call
ed the Kidney heel, and is designed to cor
rect the defects of the Cuban heel-during
the past few years the high heel has been
in vogue and as consequence the bunion
doctors have made fortunes. At present
there is return to comfortable common
sense style having low wide heels.
Mr.. Harry Kirk of Chicago was visitor
to the factoty last week. Harry has been
coming to saltwater for over seven years
and has risen from fifteen dollar a week
order clerk travelling man to So, 900 sales
man. Harry was lucky but he made good.
A consignment of upper leather from
England is expected at the factory this
week having arrived at New York on Sat-
urday-all hands are anxious to see what
John Bull has to offer in the leather line.