Semi Weekly Bourbon News

Feet Like Fiddle-Boxes.

On a table there are two hundred ladies' shoes, each different in style, but like in material and workmanship; and from this heap of odd shoes buyers and agents make selection. Those shoes that go East are made with straight lasts, and are generally small in width, but long in foot; girls in St. Louis and other parts of the Mississippi basin require short, but monstrous broad shoes, cut low in the vamp, to lessen, if possible, their generosity of sole, and they demand the very latest styles, so that if their boots are not minute, they are at least stylish; California girls call for the common-sense boot, but demand the genuine French kid; Kentucky belles cannot abide anything that is not built high as to heel and rounded at the top; while the Cincinnati ladies, who have feet like fiddle-boxes, are naturally sensitive, and insist on having the sizes marked three degrees lower than the length of the foot. At first this duplicity hurt the conscience of the house, but when it was learned how comfortable the feminine gender along the banks of the Ohio was made thereby, the marker's scruples were bought up, and he continues to supply that section with six sizes of shoe leather labeled No. 3. — Chicago Herald.