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SOLDIERS, ATTENTION
WM. H. HAYWARD,
Pension. Attorney,
708 East Capitol Street,
\‘VA SIIING TON D. (3.,
Located at the National Capital, adjacent to allthe
Executive Departments, gives me superior
advantage in the prosecution of Claims
against the United States.
INCREASE ‘i’OUR PENSION.
Many pensioners borne on the rolls are entitled
to a much higher rate of pension than they now
receive. In a great majority of cases in which
pension was granted for disease. the pensioner is
entitled to an increase of rate, and in most cases
where it was granted for wounds or injuries the
disabilityincreases each year. ‘ As time passes the
disability of all classes naturally increases. Many
were at first rated too low, and It often occurs
that pensioners are unjustly or erroneously re-
duced by examining surgeons. A pensioner is
entitled to increase on ii disubilii y not set forth in
his original declaration. The pension laws are
more liberal than formerly, and heifer rating can
be had for many disabilities. I make a Special! y
of Neglected and Rejected Claims. and if you Will
present me with a brief statement of your case,
stating by whom it. was presented, I will obtain a
rehearing of your case, and, if it has merit. will
procure a. favorable settlement. Many claims
stand rejected before the department, when it
only requires a competent attorney to make them
good cases. Soldiers sim‘crmg with disabilities
contracted inner-vice, who have not applied for a
pension, should do so as it is their RIGHT.
SOLDIERS OF THE MEXICAN WAR,
Who were in that service sixty days, [or their
widows if not re-nmrried] are entitled to $8.00 per
month from January 29th. 1857. ' ~ tf20
For Solo Cheap.
SEUOND-HAND Cast Iron Fence, with gate
all in perfect order and as good as new,
about 120 font in length.
Will be sold at a sacri-
' Mrs Ginger—From his remarks, I should
Enquire at
GAZETTE OFFICE
live if applied for soon.
sun.
The Elephant'mi‘rsc.
In India, where the elephant is treated by
his mahout almost as one of the family, the .
grateful animal makes a return for the kind~
ness shown it by voluntarily taking care of
the baby. It will patiently permit itself to
be mauled by its little charge, and will show
great solicitude when the child cries. Some-
times the elephant will become so attached to ‘
its baby friend as to insist upon its constant
presence. Such a case is known where the
elephant went so far as to refuse to eat except
in the presence of its little friend. Its attach-
ment was so genuine that the child’s parents
would not hesitate to leave baby in the ele—
phaiit’s care, knowing that it could have no
more faithful nurse. And the kindly monster
never belied the trust reposed iii luau—Ex—
change.
It is reported that famine threatens
()Ol'llll'l'll Russia, but it is a certainty that
millions of colds will be bothering Amer-
ican people this winter. Against famine
there is no protection, but for every cold
there is a bottle of Dr. Bull-‘SCough Syrup.
Mrs. Gossip—What is your husband try-
ing for the grippe, the prayer cure ?”
think he was \i'ying ilic swear cure.—
[Lowell Mail.
Foiled Again.
Bill Collector—You told me to call today,
Sll‘.
Mr. Slowpay (with deep emotionl—l sup-
pose you heard of the failure of Sure, Cash &
Co.’s bank this morning? _
“Yes, a. report to that effect was around,
but it was all a mistake. A check on that
bank is as good as gold.”
“Um—please call again.”— New York
Weekly.
Tried and true friends are scarce, but if
you are suffering with that horrible di-
sease, scrofulu. you will find Sulphur Bit-
ters will cure you as it did me, after suf-
faring eight years, and paying out liun-
dreds of dollars to doctors and druggisis.
—-JEANNETTE IIANSCOM, Troy, N. Y.
“Here’s a Connecticut man just died.
Papa says he smoked more herrings in a
year than any ten other men in New Eng-
lan .” “Preferred the llel‘l‘lllfl‘S to Con-
ne cigars, l. suppose—[New York
'ijciicut
Electricity ‘iii the Air.
In observations with kites and balloons
Professor Leonhard Weber has found that
the atmosphere is negatively electrified up to
a height of about 100 yards, beyond which it
is positively electrified iii a degree, increasing
very rapidly with the distance from the
earth. The negative electrification of the
lower strata of the air is attributed to the
presence of germs and dust particles—New
\‘oi'k 'i‘olegi illll
Kate Field declares for personal liberty.
Show us the man who has tried to take it
away from lien—[Judge
Two tons nl adulivrzitcd cheese has been
seized at llulutli. A bad give-whey on
somebody—f Boston Transcript.
Not one in twenty are free from some
little ailment caused by inaction of the
liver. Use Carter’s Dittle Liver Pills.
The lresnlt will be a pleasant surprise.
'llicy gIVe positive relief.
Tough and brittle glass are
not so far apart as black and
white; but they are far enough
apart to make it worth While
to distinguish between them.
We have not suCcecdcd yet
in making glass griddles or
tea-kettles tough enough to put
on. the stove; but we have suc-
ceeded in making glass lamp-
chimneys tough enough to
“:rcsr a melting flame without
breaking.
Macbeth 8; Co., Pittsburgh,
make the “pearl-top” @
chimneys.
“NEW 0093
Do Your Own, Dyeing, at Home».
Thequill dye everything. They are sold every»
where. Price 100. a. package. They have no equal
for Strength, Brightness, Amount in Packages
or for Fastness of Color. or non-fading Qualifies.
They do not crock or smut; 40 colors. For sale by
J. G. Gregory (It ()0. ; (J. A. Riggs, No. ll Main
Street, Geo. i5. Plaisled, Druggists. ly27
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 187..
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DEFYING HONEST COMPETITION,
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7.95 I.
THE WICKED FLEA.
How He Bites and Makes Miserable the
European Traveler.
Almost everybody likes to travel for the
purpose of seeing new and strange sights.
At least almost every person thinks he would
like to visit places he has never seen. He
does not know whether he would like it or
not until he has tried it.
Almost everybody I meet would like to go
to Europe, and this is especially true of young
people. The iiiiagiiintinii Works up a very
lively pi‘oggramiiie. which is {ilk-.1 up with un-
alloycd pleasure. I‘ll) :Illuv.::i‘.cc is made for
any niisciii'riiigcs. row for great fatigue,
none for the lzii-i; mi in (‘i‘mlolliull cuziifui‘ts and
luxui .05, none for llZE’” '_)’JL‘.LCll set bucks and
difficulties.
The uvcl'ii;“i‘f~':;.;i'l inf; m' _:;};'I would say
that be preferred 1‘, ‘I'I‘ l".._i.\ a day {spa
week of very swim: :-;:..i= 1:: [Lu srziiie number
of i‘cpusts of ozziiiiimi ‘ . "z but he hullld
inc week was out.
in law in the country
around Coiniariiiizg-in a Hg iiock of quziils
was always flying: :-.. and of the carriage, and
the Palace or flu: iii: wt. \‘i'aters seemed to be
in a cloud of IZ!:,..-;* .‘it the hotel it was
quail at. U\'Cl'_\' meal till I lulled the sight of
them; and since that l Lave never cared to
out them.
change his lllllitl !.:.. ..
When I went Uli,
i-,,,
I'llllz“.
l (10 lint. llllt‘llil to give u list of the annoy- .
:‘inces one encounters in ioi'iign travel. It
may soeiii llll‘l'uillblc to my young friends that 3
so insignificant an inane; (IS the wicked flea .
can seriously iiiici'i’ii‘v with so grand an
achievement as a tour abroad. I do not ini-
agine that I have :éUllI'l‘i d more than th x av-
erage traveler iii Spain, Italy and 501219 other
countries, iiiou;;li my skin may lro thinner
than that of most of them: but i lor k upon
the flea as I have seen him magnified on a
white surf ace by the lenses of the scientist.
To llle be is bigger than an elephant, and it
seems as though the bite of a crocodile would
be pleasant compared with that of the blood-
thirsty insect. Tliis monster has not only
kept me awake all night when I needed sleep,
but he has made me writhe and squirm all
day. I really believe the fleas in Italy and
Spain are more to be dreaded than the ban-
ditti of those countries.
Spain and Italy are not alone in subjecting
the traveler to the torture of the Wicked flea.
Even in the far north, where ice and snow
dominate the year, the festive flea has a resi-
dence. One night I went to bed, tired out
after a hard day’s work, sight seeing, in a
hotel in Christiania, in Norway. I soon found
that I could not go to sleep, sleepy as I was.
I thought I had an attack of hives or rash, or
that I had captured the itch in some steamer
or hotel. -
I lay in torment till I heard a clock strike,
the midnight hour. Then I became desperate
and leaped from the bed. I lighted my two »
candles, determined to ascertain what the
matter was. I could find nothing on my
skin that looked like scabies, and then with a
candle in each hand I examined the bed. II
was swarming with a very large sized, blue
black flea; and I had learned by experience
that this sort was particularly wicked.
I took my corn broom and brushed them
out of the bed and tried again to sleep, ex-
pecting to have my bones picked clean be-
fore morniug, though I was to be called at 5
to take a steamer. I struggled in vain for
another hour, and then got up again. I
brushed the monsters all out again, and this
time I was careful .that no part of the bed
clothes should drop down to the floor. This
succeeded. At any rate, I’ was so exhausted
that at last I went to sleep. ,
I was called in two hours; and in what con-
ditiou was I to appreciate the scenery of the
Cliristiania Fjiord? As soon as the steamer
was in the Skager Back I went to sleep. That
night I had my battle and defeat at the teeth
of the red armored knights of my berth in a
hutte.
In Holland one night I was bitten one mil-
lion times by another kind of flea, hardly less
wicked. I did not count them, but I 'esti-
mated them. Walking through the Circus of
Maxentius, in Home, I smelled peniiyroyal.
I had heard that this herb was an antidote
for the wicked flea, as it is for black flies
and mosquitoes. I gathered a considerable
quantity of it; but I did not actually suffer
from the depredations of the terrible mon-
ster in Italy.
In Bui'gos, in Spain, after looking over the
magnificent cathedral and glancing at the
bones of the Cid and his wife, our party of
three took a carriage at the hotel to visit the
tomb of the Cid, six or seven miles from the
City. The vehicle was a tumble down old
back. A kind of cloth with a nap to it had
been used to piece out the worn out lining. I
were long boots, and in a few minutes the
armies of the wicked flea began to attack me
by making an ‘advnzice on my legs.
There was no road to the cor. Vent; that con-
tains the tomb, and the oil ca: vi 139 bounced
over rocks, sometimes a foot high, and we
were pitched from one side to the other of
the interior and into the laps of each other.
“'0 laughed at the bumps we got and should
have. had a lively time of it if the fleas had
not spoiled all the fun. We writhed and
squirmed as though we were bitten by snakes.
In spite of his prowess and the supernatural
aid he received In his mighty victories, I
doubt if the Cid Campeador could have con-
quered the army that beset our party.
Twisting about and pirouetting like a
French dancing master, [looked at the tomb,
but I did not take much interest in it. At
the hotel I brushed the fleas out of the inside
of my clothes and applied cologne to the skin,
and it was very refreshing. Then I put an
abundance of peiinyroyal in my garments.
I was all right till I took in a new stock in
Madrid. They worried and tortured my
companions and myself beyond endurance. 1
obtained a bottle of flea powder at the capi—
tal, which was of some service, but I still re-
gard the wicked fleas as one of the scourges
nf travel.—Oliver Optic in Philadelphia
.q. . _-_
' lulu:-
The Mighti'Ax-mies of Europe.
Statements vary as to the magnitude of the
army which Xerxes brought with him from
Persia for the overthrow of Greece, but even
if Oriental imagination is allowed to dwell
upon the figures, this array would be smaller
than the armies that several of the modern '
European governments can now call out in
case of need. A complete mobilization would
give to France an army numbering between
2,500,000 and 3,000,000 men. Indeed some re-
cent authorities have estimated that under
the new military rule in a few years more the
number of men who would be directly con-
nected with the army or connected with its
military operations would not fall short of
4,000,000. , Germany could now put into the
field an army of 2,656,000, which will doubt-
less be increased by the proposed changes in
the military law to more than 3,000,000. Aus-
tria. has prepared for war a force numbering
about 1,300,000. . The Italian army, upon a
war footing, numbers about 2,500,000, while
the Russian army has resources in troops
which amount up to 5,000,000.—Montreal
Star.
Something that will quiet the nerves,
give strength to the body, induce refresh-
ing; sleep, improve the quality of .the
blood, and purify and brighten the com-
plexion, is what many persons would be
very glad to obtain. Carter’s Iron, Pills
are made for exactly this class of troubles,
and are remarkably successful in accom.
plisliiug’the ends desired, as named above.
They are useful for both men and wOmcn.
Sold by druggists. Price, 50 cents a box.
I See advertisement.
‘ to go through it now.
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY.
A Woman’s View of the Art of IVhicIi He:
Husband Ill :1. Devotee.
GENTLEMEN—A letter from you addressed
to my husband has come to hand. You ask
him to write you an article for your Pho
tographic Annual that is to be published
next year, and you put in some taffy aboui
his being a well known amateur, and some
stuff about what he writes being of interest,
and that sort of thing. My husband is now
on a photographic tour, as lie.calls it, and oi
course I Open all his letters. It is not- likely
that in y husband will be back in IZILIIC tc
write the article you wish. When he goes 00
with that confounded camera of his you
never know when he will come home. So 1
inn very pleased to give you a woman‘s view
of amateur photography, and if you print ii
in your annual I think you will not have
another article just like it.
My unfortunate husband was stricken witl
the amateur photographic plague about thret
years ago. Up to that time I always consid-
ered him reasonably sane. I made no objec-
tion at the time to his joining the array 01‘
photographic cranks, because, you see, I knew
nothing of the subject. I have done every’
thing I could since that time, but, although
he has quit smoking at my request, he refuses
to give up the camera habit. At the time he
began this so called recreation my house, 01
perhaps I should say our house, was one oi
the neatest in the neighborhood. You ouglil
My carpets have been
ruined with those abominable chemicals
which he uses. I don’t pretend to know tlieii
names, but I know well the effect they have.
Then the bathroom is something frightful tc
behold. He uses that for what he calls his
dark room, and has contrivances for shutting
out the light.
I notice that, in one of the books you sent
him, Daguerre 1was the inventor of photog-
raphy. He may have been the inventor oi
photography, but I think it was another sul-
phurous gentleman with the same initial whc
was the inventor of amateur photography.
My husband was reasonably good tempered
until he took up your diabolical art. I one
time opened the door of the room in which he
was working. It was all dark inside except a
fearful red lamp, which threw a ruddy glow
on his face. and made him look as if he were
going: to have an epileptic fit. The moment I
opened the door and let some light into the
room that man went perfectly crazy. He
claimed 1 had spoiled a dozen of his plates,
although I had touched nothing, and I came
near suing for a divorce because of his awful
remarks. If the evil one was not the inventor
of amateur photography then I would like to
know who was. Then the pictures he does
turn out when he gets them finished are per-
fectl y awful. He has tried at different times
to photograph the children, but the poor
little dears looked like wooden images in the
pictures. I went into the bathroom once with
the baby and put him in the bath tub. There
was some water there already, and it looked
clear enough, but in it was some horrible
solution of silver that turned most of the
baby jet black, and we haven’t been able to
get out the color to this day.
Then the cost of the thing is something
frightful, although my husband carefully
conceals what he spends on it. I came across
one of the photographic dealer’s bills the
other day, and it was enough to make one’s
hair stand on end. Pyrogallic acid, what-
ever that is, was fifty cents an ounce.-
Just think, if I had to pay that price for
sugarl Eight dollars a. pound, instead of ten
cents!
Fifty cents an ounce! And that wasn’t
the worst of it. N ow what do you think
chloride of gold costs? For fifteen grains he
is charged fifty cents. Now that, as you
know yell enough, is very near $20 an ounce,
and $20 an ounce is over $300 a pound. I
don‘t know how many pounds of the wretched
stuff he uses every week, but if he uses ten
pounds of it, and I lllll sure ten pounds of
sugar doesn’t go very far in a house with a
large family like ours, you would see that
that is $3,000 for that one thing alone, not to
mention the dozens of other chemicals he
uses, and I am sure I don’t know what the
price of them is.
I tell you that amateur photography was
invented to drive a poor woman crazy who
has a husband that is a victim of the villain-
ous practice. No wonder he says he can’t af-
ford a new dress for me when I ask him for
it. The house is stained with horrible solu-
tions from collar to gari'et, and I’m always
afraid to use any cups or glasses for fear
there is some dreadful poison in them. The
cat took some milk out of a saucer that had
something or other of potassium in it and it
just curled up and died.
I’m always afraid to sweep in any part of
the house for fear it will raise a dust that
will spoil something that he has tacked up on
a board to dry. I wouldn’t mind all this so
much if he ever took a picture that was worth
looking at; but, as I said before, he never
does. There, now, print that in your miser-
able photograph book if you want to.
, Mrs. JOHN TRIPOD.
N. B.——If you ever wnite to my husband
again telling him that his articles on photog-
raphy will be appreciated I will burn your
letter and you will lose your postage stamp.
So just remember that. Mrs. J. T. —Detroit
Free Press.
. Flight of Birds.
It has been remarked that sailing vessels do
not lay down their course upon the arc of a
great circle, as they would if distance Were
the only matter to be considered. The pre-
vailing Winds, the currents in the ocean and
many other aids or hindrances to navigation
have to be taken into account.
It is of interest to find that migratory birds
are equally sensible of the advantages of dif-
ferent routes. This is particularly noticeable
in their crossing of mountain ranges. A
Russian traveler in central Asia writes of
this habit of the wild fowl:
“The observations on the spring flight at
Lab-nor afforded new proof that birds of
passage do not take the shortest meridional
course, but prefer a more favorable, though
more circuitous route. "
“All the flocks, without exception, which
appeared at Lab-nor came from wast-south-
wast, occasionally from southwest and west.
Not a bird flew d'n'ect from the south, over
the Altin-tagh mountains, thus proving that
migratory birds, or, at all events, water
fowl, will not venture to cross the lofty and
cold Thibetan highlands on their passage
from the transHimfilayan countries, but
pass over this difficult country at its narrow- _
est point. ”—Youth’s Companion.
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A Remarkable Cripple.
Isaac Hoffman, of Carverton, Pa., whose
only means of locomotion is upon his hands
and knees, is one of, the famous hunters, of
that region; He has never been able to walk.
He can operate a mower, reaper or horse rake
equal to anyone. . As a loader 'of hay and
grain he is hard to exec]. He has often driven
one and. two_horses, and has no fears of their
getting away, ,‘ He assists. in most of the work
about hisifather’s farm, and as a chapper of
wood none but those who have witnessed his
wielding of thepx would believe the amount
he can cutrin a short time. During the last ,
dozen years of, liis'life his chief enjoyment is
to travel over the. hills with his gun and dog,
and as a marksman lie is pretty hard toex-
cel. In coming down a flight of stairs he
always descends head foremost.-— Chicago
'Herald. '
- of the shoes are too low.
AN ARAB SAYING.
Remember, three things come not back:
The arrow sent upon its track—
It will not swerve, it will not stay
Its speed: it flies to wound or slay.
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The spoken word, so soon forgot
By thee; but it has perished not;
In other hearts ‘tis living still, ,
And doing work for good or ill. I
And the lost opportunity ,1
That cometh back no more to thee. '
Iii vain thou weepest in vain dost’ycarn.
Those three will ne‘.‘ 1" more. return.
-Constantina E. Brooks in Century. ‘0
An Uncommon Royal Spectacle. I
Apropos of grand dukes, it may be inter-
esting to state that the czar has recently
given the rare spectacle of an autocratic sov-i
ei'eigii freely renouncing some of his privi— .
leges and reducing the amount of moneys at-
tributed to members of his family out of the
state budget. The empress, who received an-
nually 600,000 rubles-a ruble is nearly equal
to eighty cents-will get only 200,000 here-
after, and in case of widowhood her dowry
will be reduced by one-half, if she resides out-
side of Russia. Instead of 300,000 rubles, the
czarowitz will have only 100,000; and his
wife 50,000 instead of 150,000, as now. On her
husband’s death she would get a pension of
100,000 rubles instead of 300,000, if she re-
sides within the empire, nnd only 50,000 in
case of her residing abroad. The grand dukes,
brothers of the reigning czar, who received
100,000 rubles as a pension until now, will get
no more than 33,000. The daughters and
granddaughters of the emperor will receive
from the state a. dot of 1,000,000, and nothing
more. Each son of the czar will get at his
majority appanages bringing a determined
income and 1,000,000 rubles toward the build-
ing and furnishing of a palace. Similar re--
ductions have been ordered by the czar in re-
gard to money appropriations made to other
members of the imperial family—New York
Tribune.
The Brakeman’s Loss.
There is danger that the modern passenger
brakenian- will die of ennui. On the Fort
I’Vayne road there is now in process of testing
a device which is to be operated by com-
pressed air from the engineer’s cab, and
which is, in effect, a noiseless annunciator,
quietly informing the passengers, through
their eyes, not their ears, of the name of the
next stopping,r place. This, if generally adopt-
ed, will rob the brakeman of the dear joy of
shouting in an unknown tongue. One by one
this oflicial’s duties have passed away. A
decade ago he twisted the hand brake as vig-
orously, and oftener, than did his co-worker
on the freight train. Air and the engineer
now perform that arduous duty. Now comes
the silent, air operated station annunciator.
There are a few privileges, however, left to
the passenger brakeman, which the man in
the engine cannot take away. There are
pretty girls to help on and off, fat women,
babies, old men and packages unnumbered to
look after.- But the vocal training of the
brakeman will be totally neglected, and he
will at times sigh for the days When he could
relieve his feelings by splitting some passeno
ger’s ear drum and emitting a language that
Max Muller himself could not interpret.—
l’ittsburg Bulletin.
Queer Beliefs.
The Fijian cannibal’s emotions have refer-
ence for the greater part to food, so he wor-
.ships the god. Matawaloo, who. has eight
stomachs and is always eating.
The Tongans have every curious dogma to
account for a day and night being twenty-
four hours long. It used to be less; the sun
used to, go down too quick. So one day a. man
caught it with a noose, and ithad to go
slower thereafter.
The ancient Peruvians believed that the sun
once came down to the earth and laid two
eggs and then went back again. From these
two eggs men sprung.
The American Indians had a dogma that '
the sun was the one supreme god, and the
moon was his wife. One tribe inhabiting a
fearfully hot district worshiped the moon
alone, saying that they had no use for the
sun.
In the days of Columbus scientific dogmas
asserted: If a ship should reach India she
could never get back again, because the ro-
tundity of the globe would present a kind of
mountain, up which it would be impossible to
sail even with the most favorable wind.—
Boston Globe.
The Germ Theory of Disease.
Some people were discussing the germ
theory of disease a few evenings ago, and a
doctor who was present,laid down the law
emphatically upon the germ as being the
physical cause, or rather inseparable ante
cedent, of every known form of disease.
When asked why, if he knew so much about
it, he and the members of the profession
didn‘t kill the germs, or at least explain to
the public how such causes of disease might
be extei'niinated, he just strokedqhis beard
and said the germ had yet to be discovered,
although it was well known to exist.
“Why,” he said, “we are only at the be-
ginning of medical science. There’s leprosy,
which has been well known throughout this
world since the Hebrews left Egypt in the ’
time of Pharaoh, and as yet we do not know
whether it is hereditary, contagious or com-
municable in any way. We know absolutely
nothing about its causes or its cures. All we
seem to know is that it is in some way con-
nected with such diseases as cancer, scrof'ula
and rheumatism, and that like them it is in-
curable.” '
Just then a little child in the room began
to break out with whooping cough. It was
the beginning of the third week’s whooping,
and everything that medical skill and care-
ful nursing could do had been done to re-
new the little one. “You see there,” said
the doctor; “we can’t stop the time of that
disease by one day. -We may put the child
to sleep and soften the cough a little, but the
germ has put in his appearance and must
run his course. The fact. is that medical
science is now employed not so much in find-
ingremedi'es as in discovering preventivas.
And, indeed, in a truer sense than Sir Isaac
Newton, we doctors are like "children pick.
ing pebbles on the shore, while the great
ocean of truth lies unexplored before us.”
The strange part of the storyis that although
the lady of the house admired the doctor’s
candor, she determined in future to call in a
physician who had more faith in his own
medicines—Chicago Journal.
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How to Wear: High Heels.
“This prejudice against high heels is a mis-
take,” remarked a shoemaker, as he prepared
to place an addition “lift” upon the heel of a
shoe which be held in his lap. .
“It depends entirely "upon the natural
Shape of the foot. People with a high instep
require high heels, and it_ is only the flat.
footed who feel easy with low heels.
“Slippers are. positively injurious to most
persons, espec‘ . ially' if they atom. ‘ pt to do any
unusual amount of walking in them. The
low heels give no support to the ankles and
cause the ankles tobreak down.
“Any person who finds in breaking in a
new pair of shoes that there is a, pain across
the instep should know at once that the heels
I am satisfied that
children suffer a-great deal fromithis cause. ,
Every individual should learn by experience
how high the heels of his shoes should be. and .
select accordingly. ”—Kansas City Globe.
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