The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1924-03-14
A Pair of Small
Shoes

~ OnE We got tnat KIM, miss. ~
trouble with your foot Is, It's 8
small. You see, miss, you really 0ugh
to have your shoes made for you. VIVA
you take Is a medium children's size
and they don't stock many of then
But guess this II about fit you.
Wear? Oh, sure ! That's good for
lifetime. That's real classy SHOE tina
is. Twelve dollars Well, you got (,
have q good shoe to set of a foot lik,
| yours. You can't wear common sho'
with them insteps. neither. 1t wouldn'
look right nohow
mo, miss, can't say as I've evel
had customer with foot as small al
yours MISUNDERSTANDING not with {
high arch like that what water WOULD
now under. But we sure do have some
unusual customers IN here. Did evei
tell you about the two one-legged mer
that used to come In here7
"Why-let me see--I can't remember
their names Jest now. / guess they're
dead. Veterans Of the Spanish war,
they were. guess, but getting on in
years. They come in here two or three
times. Good friends they were, but
they allus used to quarrel about their
shoes-quarreled like cats and dogs,
miss.
well, II you don't like them. I've
got Jest the thing for you. I've sud
denly remembered. It's our Baby
Brand shoe, made specially for small
feet. I'll bring you pair II you'n jest
sit down a minute longer.
'Here you are, miss. Fifteen dol
lars, but amt they dandies7 A shoe
like that Is shoe that is shoe. Some
class to that. You see, miss, with a
foot like yours you can't afford to wear
but let me try them on and you shall
Judge for yourself.
"Oh, about them two old soldiers.
Where was r? Yes, sure. Quarreled
like cats and dogs, they did You see,
one Of 'em had lost his right leg and
the other his left leg, and as they both
took the same size they useter come In
and buy a pair between 'em. And very
glad I was to serve them, since they'd
lost their limbs fighting for their coun-
try.
"Well, the trouble was-there, don't
those look finer Might have been Gus
tom-made. Yes, fifteen dollars, miss.
Too tight? Why, miss. I'd call them
too loose. II anything You see. with
foot like yours-Oh. well. let me try
you with another style I've got right
here.
There you are, miss. Jest let me
put these on for you. That's the Baby
Brand, too, but superfine quality.
That's baby kangaroo skin. Eighteen
fifty. You see, you've got to have style
to your shoes. with insteps like them.
Oh, them two old soldiers7 Lemme see
oh, yes, was telling you how they'd
buy pair of shoes between them.
"Well, 1t seemed to me they allus
used to quarrel and act contrary out Of
neanness with each other. If one Of
hem wanted black shoes the other
would have brown, and II one wanted
aced shoes the other wanted button |
'hoes. But the worst time they had
vas the last time they come In here.
How do they feel, miss?"
Well. you see, miss, an instep as high
IS yours is bound to get pinched. But
guess I've got what you want. This
$ the latest Baby Brand model, made
or special high insteps and special
mall feet. Twenty-two-fifty. Yep, it's
bit high, but did you ever see a shoe
Nth class like that to ltf Well, II you
ont like the very pointed toe, here's
that you really want. Let me try
hem on for you.
"Ob, I was. telling you about them
wo old men, wasn't II Well, the last
me they come in one wanted farm !
cots and the other wanted patent
'athers. You see, one of 'em had taken
. land and the other was getting mar
ed and sort of slicked up in his ways.
WELL sir. they had the worst set
, ! ever See From words they come
} blows, and before knew what was
hat each of them had whipped Off his
OGDEN leg aud was going for the other
ammer and tongs. How do them
,oes feel?
well. they couldn't be separated no
NV. One Of them swipes the other In
e stomach and doubles him up, but
IT before the other had cracked his
OGDEN leg down on the other ones
lad and busted his scalp open. 1t
asn't till then that we could calm
EN- down.
''What happened7 Why, one Of 'em
oks up at the other and says:
a. ~ Il -~l- /
ants. Mike. is bedroom slippers.
And. by gosh, they bought them.
IS. them shoes are twenty-five. but
eyre we'll worth the price with 4
sssy foot like yours, MISS"