A WOMAN WITH A NEW PAIR OF SHOES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 266, 16 November 1878, Page 6

A WOMAN WITH A NEW PAIR OF SHOES.

When a woman has a new pair of shoes sent home she performs altogether different from a man. She never shoves her toes into them and yanks and hauls until she is red in the face and all out of breath and then goes stamping and kicking around, but pulls them on part way carefully, twitches them off again to take a last look and eee if she has got the right one, pulls them on again, looks afc them dreamily, says they are just right, then takes another look, stops suddenly to smooth out a wrinkle, I twists around and surveys them sideways exclaims, ' Mercy, how loose they are,' looks at them again square in front, works her foot around so they won't hurfcher quite so 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 to her better half that she won't have them at any price, tilts down the mirror so she can see how they look, turns in every possible direction and nearly dislocates her neck trying to see how they look from that way, backs off, steps up again, takes thirty or forty farewell looks, says they make her feet look awful big and never will do in the world, puts them off and on three or four times more, asks her husband what he thinks about it, and then pays no attention to what she says, goes through it all again and finally says he wili take them. It's a very simple matter, indeed. ',