HOW A WOMAN TRIES ON SHOES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1848, 23 May 1888, Page 3

HOW A WOMAN TRIES ON SHOES

When a woman ha? a now pair of shoes aent homo Bhe performs altogether different from a man. She never shoves her tooa into them uud hauls until she la red m the face and all out of breath, and then goes stamping and klokiog around, but pullo them on part wty carefully, twitches them off again to take a last look, aid sees if she has got the right one, pulls them < n again, looks at them dreamily, B»ya they are just right-, then takes another look, Btopo suddenly to smooth out a wrinkle, twis s rouud and surveys them sideways, exclaims— " Mersy, how loose they aro," looks »fc them ega'n square m front, works hor foot around so they won't hurt her quite S3 much, takes them off, looks at the heel, the toe, the bottom, and the inside, puts them on again, walks up and down the room once or twice, remarks t> her better half that she won't have them at any price, tilta down the m'.rror 90 she can Bee how they look from that way, backs off, steps up ' again, takes thirty or f<)rty farewell looks, Bays they mike hor feet look awful big and never will do m the world, pats them on and off three or four times more, asks her husband what ho thinks übout it, anil then pays no attention to what he says goea through it all again, and finally Bays she will take them. li'a very simple. I