TilJ DAILY IIEUALD: IXATTSAKHiTH.TjmASKA, SATU I ID AY, JUN'E Ji, 183S-
LUCK ON WALL STREET.
SIGNS WHICH BROKERS BELIEVE IN
DICATIVE OF BAD FORTUNE.
t fully eyeing
Street IIotbl of Superstition.
. How IIiinrlla-ka Affect the Market.
Um Vrns Foot Forrmot The Nunc
Ip 13 Lucky Suit of Clothes.
Whll. eating lunch tlie ofh-r day with
a prominent broker, I chancel to ask him
r.bout tho stock market. Ifc-fore the ques
tion wai out of my mouth hit hand went
under the table like a flnh and three oini-
I'Oiw ruj.s greeted my inquiry,
"piril" fcaid I. distrustl
Mm.
-Luck." ho answered, sipping Lis cofTec,
"I rapped fyr luck, as every sensible man
should when the market is referred to la
restaurant."
Outside tho clrclo of Spiritualists hun
dreds cf prominent persons arc snperstl
tious. We consider ourselves at the me
ridlan f t civilization, hut. as Kmerson
Kays, we cro only at the cock crowing and
tho morning star. Hundreds of pooplo
consult wiud!ers who call themselves as
trologer A larco nronortinn tit f tiA ruin.
ulution hero believe In signs indicative of
good luck or ill luck, or elso they believe
that certain persons are favored with good
look, while others are naturally unlucky.
The Rothschilds will have nothing to do
with a man whom they consider unlucky.
Commodore Vanderbilt. one of the ablest
railroad financiers this country ever pro
duced, believed in luck.
HAD LUCK OX FTtlDAY.
Hundreds of Intelligent persons have a
superstitious reluctance to engage In any
important enterprise on Friday. This in
cludes as cool and matter of fact a man as
jay iiouid. under no circumstances will
he use an elevator. Tho late Jesse Hoyt,
tlio riillionaire grain merchant, would
never onrage in cny important business
undertaking on Friday, and many of the
speculators on the big exchanges are simi
larly superstitious. They consider every
Friday a Mack Friday. The prejudice
against Friday probably dates back to the
Middle Ages, or to even a remoter period,
ns the day on which Christ was executed.
It is only ono of innumerable old super
stitions which still survive.
Jlatiy investors and speculators in Wall
street are superstitious about dropping
things. If they find themselves constantly
dropping articles which they happen to be
carrying they take it as a sign that they
must sell their bonds and stocks. Many
have a superstitious fear of holding stocks
over a holiday.
Some firms will not display the ominous
I." if it happens to be the number of their
places of business.
I confess," said the manager of a largo
banking and brokerage house, "that I
have a superstition about the 13th day of
the tnonth. It is not generally a lucky
day Ono uulncky instance I remember,
too. about l rulay A big lake steamer
that plied between KulTalo and Chicago a
jiutnbur of years ago was launched on
Friday, bailed on Friday and sauk on Fri
day." Somo stock brokers think it is very good
luck to see n hunchback. If they can
touch the deformity it will bring big
gains. Such a touch is also supposed to
t-ure headaches. To seo a negro the first
thing in tLo morning Is a favorable sign.
la the play 'Henrietta" a youth who
speculates in stocka when asked by his
broker whether he wishes ij buy or sell
answers gravely, ''I will consider it."
Then ho tums his back and tosses a cent
to determine his course. This is really
founded partly on fact. A person in the
habit of speculating in stocks found he
was losii: steadily At lenarth he hit
Itftltca la m SwIm Kimdm,
PV - r i .
"- miseum in rxeuciiarei is itn nmi-
suauj interesting ono, onl tho traveler
doe tt experience that sensation of
wearlneaa which is often felt In visits to
similar place. Ono room is filled with
animals, stuffed of course, which are
found in the higher Alps, many of which
are now extinct. Wolves, white, nnd
brown bears, foxes, white hares, chamois
steinbocks, all are there, most beautifully
stuffed and prescrvcd. I have said that
some of these animals are no longer to
be found in the mountains, but it would
have been more correct to have stated
that they have retreated before the civil
izing hand of man, for it is believed that
ix-ars, and certainly wolves, are to be
found on tho higher peaks, where no foot
of Alpine climljcr has penetrated.
Jn the next room are the models of tho
lake houses and the curious relics of the
ages of stone and bronze which have been
found imbedded in the mud and slime at
the bottom of the lake. The date of
these remains cannot bo determined.
Opinions difler, but all agree on one
point tTlat they certainly existed before
tho time of Julius Caesar. Tho houses
were cleverly built on four iron rods
6unk deeply in the mud at the bottom of
the lake and supporting a kind of plat
form, on which the hut rested, and the
inhabitants reached the shore by means
of canoes made of hollowed trees. The
reason apparently of their choosing the
lake as a dwelling olace was to orotect
themselves from the numbers of wild and
fierce animals with which the country
was infested. Indeed it is evident that
it waa then little more than a vast marsh
or morass.
In the same room with the models are
6ome grotesque ornaments worn by the
woman and some equally extraordinary
weapons worn by the men. In another
room are the skulls of 6omo of these an
cient beings. Very flat and receding are
they, and the inspection goes far to
strengthen one's belief in Darwin's
theory that their possible ancestors may
nave oeen an ape line tribe.
There is no national costume worn by
the Neuchatol peasantry now, but in
many of the cottages you may see old
pictures, roughly but brightly colored,
representing the dress worn in days long
gone by. A delightful excursion is by
the little lake steamer as far as Morat, a
quaint old world town about three hours'
distance from Neuchatel. Hero are
funny old streets, narrow and furnished
with arcades built of stone, under which
arecthe oddest little shops imaginable,
Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.
A JUDGE'S EXPERIENCE.
HE THINKS LAZINESS IS THE CHIEF
CAUSE OF CRIME.
The Results of Jutlg-e Ia(1' Observa
tion its Jude Id I'ollce Courts Ke
formatlon of Criminal Kvlla of Tene
ment Housrs fillers.
From my experience as a judge In police
courts. I should say that laziness is the
chief cause of crime The young man
who Is Inherently lazy will steal rather
than work. According to the Scriptures
man should earn his bread by the sweat
of his brow, but In our large cities there
re thousands of men who will do neither
mental nor manual work, and who prefer
to get their living by preying upon the
community In some form or other Young
criminals are born bad. You cannot
expect that the sons or the daughters of
a thief or a burtrlar will be naturallv
good. Their whole surroundings are bad;
nearly every influence that is exerted
upou them from childhood up tends to
make them as bad as their progenitors.
Even girls and boys inclined to be good
may, by contagion, become bad.
HEFOKM ATION
DECORATION yF INTERIORS.
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of Wnll
Wucil
r.'n-rlCnil. ! Wooil.
The process for preparing wood iwd for
Interior decoration was invented by Charles
V. Spnrr, of Host on. Ho has a very re
markable knowledge of woods and helped
to make the collection which Mr. Morris
K Jcssup. the banker and philanthropist,
has presented to the Museum of Natural
History Lntil.Mr purr found the
secret of making good veneers, which is
to cut the wood thin, furniture men and
wood dealers v.eie trying to see how thick
they could make them so as to prevent
the warping which was invariably taking
place, and makiug tho experiments un
successful.
Wood may bo cut as thin as the TOOth
part of an inch, when it is like paper. It
Is not useful in this state. That which is
cut to the thickness of tho lOuth or tho
150th part of an inch and lined with pap r
is useu tor tlie decoration of wails and
ceilings, lhis neither shrinks nor swells,
tuere not being enough of it for t he at
mosphere to afTect. In ono room, where
it was put on eighteen j-ears ago, it is in
as irood condition as when it was lir:-t en
plied The smooth surface of an ordinary
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And the most we pride ourselves on is our excellent line of
Ladies' Hand-Turned Shoes
upon tho idea of tossing a half dollar
- whh-h he always carried for luck, and !f it
p,xved to ns 'head" he bought the h'rst
fctocj't that came out on the tape; If it was
" tt.il" Lt; sold. For a time at least ho
was far more successful by this method
than he had ever been through the exer
cise of common sense.
THE VltO.NO FOOT FOIiEMOST.
Some jerron.s on rising in tho morning
have a superstitious fear of putting the
left foot out of bed first. Others believe
in always putting on the left shoo first.
If they meet a negro or a cross eyed
woman they spit for good luck. Every
body wants to pick up a horseshoe.
On the Cotton Exchango thero 13 one
prominent member who consults the
"spirits" for points ou tho market. On a
dark day, wkn the gas is lighted, some
of tho brokers consider it a sign that the
market will advance. Others say it is
ood lue!t to meet a Sister of Charity.
"I shouldn't care," said a popular oil
operator, "to be Jong of 13,000 barrels of
oil hero and short that much In Oil City.
I would make it 14,000 at all hazards. Of
course it is all nonsense, but I shouid feel
better to change tho figures at once.
Then I have au unlucky sulj of clothes.
It may sound laughable, but It la so. I
have a Cuo irrav suit at home which J
have only worn four or five times ia the
last three- years, and it has elready cost
no ten times what I gave for it. I bor
rowed a diamond ring from a friend and
thought it might give me luck. It was
jr.st the reverse. As sure as I wear that
. siif.'-iond rig the market breaks. An
other thing. I never trade on Friday if I
Jiavo c"c:i that day a cross eyed woman
.or a red Leaded man."
O.ia of the best known traders In the
o!T i ;t:j of the Consolidated Exchange will
revcr cros3 a street diagonally, but ol
v. ays v.t ri.zrht angles. Between Wall
strctt end Exchange place on narrow Now
street, on which both Stock Exchanges
abut, tho brokers Tvalk In the middle of
the street about as much as Lhey do on
the sidev.-c.lks; but the oil operator r-foi-red
to always keeps carefully to the
sidewalks, ai:d "if he has occ-wsion to cross
at the intersection of another street al
takes in each corner cn the way rathe
than cut across cata-cornered. lie has a
German coin that he could net be induced
to sell It gives good luck.
Hundreds of brokers on the two Stock
ExcLangt-3 consider that they have their
lucky suits of clothes.
On the Consolidated Exchange, espe
cially in the shouting, gesticulating, pnsh
Idz and rollicking oil group, it is consid-
rre-J a very bad omen to open an umbrella
jind rr.Ie it over the head. Putting up
ah nmbretln in a board room would seem
Gluttony Veniu Intellectuality.
Gluttony tends to cynicism. Coarse
ness and extravagance of speech and
manners go hand in hand with dietetic
excesses, as, for cognate reasons, the re
puLsiveness of voracious animals is gen
erally aggravated by a want of cleanli
ness. Among the natives of the Arctic
regions, where climatic causes make
gluttony a pandemic vice, personal clean
liness is an almost unknown virtue, and
Kane's anecdotes of polar household hab
its depict a degree of squalor that would
appall a gorilla. IlabitunI abstemious
ness, on the other hand, is the concomi
tant of modesty, thrift, 6elf control and
evenness of temper, and is compatible
with heroic perseverance, though hardly
with great etiergy of vital vigor. The
dietetic self denials of Luigi Cornaro, a
Venetian tiobleman of the Sixteenth cen
tury, enabled him to outlive the third
generation of his epicurean relatives.
During the latter decades of his long life
he boasts of having enjoyed a peace of
mind unattainable by other means.
There are intellectual voluptuaries
whose enjoyment of mental triumphs in
controversy or cogitation 6eem, for the
time being, actually to deaden their crav
ing for material food. Isaac Newton, on
the track or a cosmic secret, would send
back plate after plate of untasted meals.
Percy Shelley, In the words of his
sprightly biographer, "indignantly re
fused to alloy th9 nectar of poetie inspire
Hon with boarding house soup," and in
his creative moods rarely answered a
dinner call without a sigh of regret.
Benedict Spinoza, amid the parchment
piles of his bachelor den, would fast foi
days ill the ecstasy of his Gott trunk-
enen" "God Intoxicated" meditations.
Dr. Felix L. Oswald in Open Court.
under all circu instances to be unnecessary.
It U worse- It brings bad luck. There
s a skeptical wag in the crowd, however,
vbo on dull days, when the brokers are
ky!arking. will raise an umbrella and
rua into the trading ring and hold it over
its rany traders as he can. They scamper
like a l!:xk of frightened h6ep. isev
York Cor. Globe-Democrat.
Mcdlol Value of Peppermint Oil.
In addition to being, from its potency
and other advantages, the best of sur
gical antiseptics, it is possible that there
lies in oil of peppermint a power for good
and a field of therapeutic utility vaster
in extent and importance than any yet
known or suspected. Some cases of
phthisis, in which I have employed it as
. an inhalation, lesd me to hope that we
may find in .it a remedy against the
scourge to which we pay annually a
tribute of 10,000 lives.
In diphtheria, the greatest of all de
siderata lias always been such an anti
septic as this one wliich may be fear
lessly applied in the greatest quantity
and the greatest frequency; which is in
nocuous, whether it be swallowed during
its application, cr be respired into the
air passages, and which, by its absorp
tion into the blood and its ready vola
tility, in .enabled to penetrate to every re
cess, and be carried ihrcugh .all the tis
sues. Two cases of typical diphtheria in
maie adults, part of a small epidemic,
some amoug Jhe victims of which died
with its worst features, hire been treated
by applications of oil of peppermint.
These cses afford ground for believing,
therefore, that this drug may be also a
potent weapon in diphtheria. Recover
ing so completely and so speedily as they
did, their progress resembles neither that
of "ordinary ulcerated pharyngitis,
treated or not by the usual means, nor of
diphtheria as it has progressed in cases I
have seen treated by tho inefficient local
antiseptics in vogue. London Lancet.
or ClUUINALS.
We have many institutions in this city
for the reformation of criminals of both
sexes, but I think that very few of the
vicious are reformed in such places. My
experience with law breakers Justifies the
truth of the saying: "Once a thief
always a thief;" once let a boy get con
taminated with the poison of crime and
he will live and die an outlaw of society.
In the court room I can tell at a glance
children who have been brought up in re
formatories their manner is deceitful
and they have a hang dog. crouching ex
pression of countenance.
In my ofllcial career 1 have met a great
many criminals, and I must confess that
among them I have never known of a
genuine case of reform. Quito a long time
may sometimes elapse between their terms
In the penitentiary or state's prison, but
iney are sure to return tor some new
offense sooner or later, more hardened
than ever Once In a great while a man
who has gone wrong will attempt to re
form, but that is exceptional. Burglars
will dio burglars; pickpockets cannot be
reformed, and confidence men would
rather get half a dollar by practicing their
beguiling methods than earn $5 honestly
In the same length of time. It is indeed
true that to them stolen fruit is always
the sweetest.
Crime, however, is no more prevalent
In New York than It is in any country
village In proportion to the population.
I have visited every large city in the
United States, and most of the large cities
of Europe. I have made inquiries in re
gard to crime and I have come to the con
elusion that New York, notwithstanding
that It is a rendezvous for criminals from
all parts of the world, is comparatively as
free from crime as any city in the universe.
CnEAP LODGING HOUSES.
What is called the tenement house svs-
tem causes an immense amount of crime.
In tenement houses people are obliged to
herd together in such a way that the
rising generation cannot help witnessing
the meretricious relations that exist be
tween the sexes in these dwellings. Free
reading rooms, lectures, etc., diminish
crime to a certain extent, but the ten cent
lodging houses more than counterbalance
the good done by all the former. Such
lodging houses have caused more destitu
tion, more beggary and crime than an v
other agency I know of. Mechanics anil
laborers were better off years ago when
they had to pay from $2.50 to $5 a weei
for their board in regular boarding houses.
Mechanics nowadays seem to have got
Into Bohemian habits; they are like tho
gypsies, they are shiftless and love to
wander from place to place, content if
they can supply the absolute needs of tho
passing moment. I think that tho cheap
lodging houses ought to be abolished by
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me ooara or neaiin.
I believe, however, that promiscuous
alms giving is wrong. Tho public would
be showing more charity and humanity
by giving nothing to street beggars, be
cause if a tramp can make a dollar or t wo
a day by begging he will not work. I
would like to see a stringent law passed
making It obligatory upon every able
bodied man, rich or poor, to perform some
kind of work. Every man in the comma
nity should be compelled to produce some
thing. In my opinion the saddest sight
to be seen in a large city like this is the
number of Idlers, yo-jng and middle aged
men. looking out of windows on such
thoroughfares as Broadway and Madison
avenue club men. sighing for some new
pleasure; men who never did a stroke of
real work and who never had a dozen
original thoughts in their lives. It would
be a good thing if such men, even if they
are the sons of rich parents, were com
pelled to work. P. Q. Duffy in The
r,pocn.
pasteooara wall or ceding is tlio U:.t
foundation for it. All holes and cracks
must be evenly filled with plaster of oat is.
If the wall ia new it Is glue Bized as if for
wail paper 1 lien it is ready for the wood
in panels, frieze or molding, perfectly
plain and simple, or very elaborate. The
wall is first covered with cloth put on
with common flour paste. Tho veneers
are dampened with a preparation of glycer
ine and water, which softens them, and
when dry leaves them pliable. A r,'t(n js
men ruuoeu over th wooii r-a ;; ;
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i-ioiu lovtivu wall, una tlio termer euro
imij uiiu smoomiy applied, bcarcelv a
more ditheult task than putting on wall
paper. There aro no fewer than forly
kinds of wood from which to select the
ornamentation of a house interior. .So::u-
iiiiiL-3 iwo or mree are mingled in ono
room, with a surprising!' beautiful effect.
A checker board pattern of curly maple
is aooui as inicit as a piece or can! board.
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10 produce it strips or wood were first
woven in and out and 1 hen subjected to
neai ami pressure, which made it one
smooth mass, varied in hue an if it wero
composed of two kinds of wood. Cherrv.
oak and mahogany are on the top notch of
esteem ror this sort of decoration as well
furniture at the present moment.
Embossed wood resembles carving, and
while it is not meant exactly to tako tho
placo of it. is rich enoue-h in itself to de
mand attention and to bo used for endless
purposes of utility and ornament It ia
not cheap enough to become common.
iliB original patterns for the work ate
carved by hand. Molds from these models
are then made, on which the wood is
piaceu ancr ueing soitened. J hey are
then submitted to 2."i0 degrees of heat and
great pressure. When taken from the
hydraulic press they are much too hot to
touch for some time. It is easy to see
that such a processnaturally prevents any
shrinkage afterward.
A ceiling of ono of the parlor car3 on
the Old Colony railroad is decorated wit h
these embossed and plain woods, and is
prized so highly by tho company that the
car is only in service during the .summer
months. Book binding is another use to
which the wood has recently been put.
Poems by Pope and Jeau Inge low, issued
last year, arc enveloped In a covering of
wood and tied with different colored rib
bous. New York Press.
At their Present Low Prices. Ladies lo(kin' for Kiicl
i a
Shoe should not fail to call
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EDITIONS.
I) urine; th Qonryuiooo.
riiiajn Voang Husband And will
rover t ah e the wedding ring from your
linger, darling?
Chicago Young Wifc Never. George;
d-atli or divCrco
The ITpoch.
will alone remove it.
Relief (or Iy pplsonlng.
I was repeatedly poisoned by ivy when
a boy, and found no relief till an uncle
told my mother to give- me a tablefpoon
ful of thoroughwort tea each morning
before eating during the month of May,
and I never would bo poisoned again.
She followed his directions, and the re
sult was I never liave been poisoned
since, altliough I was exposed to it more
or less each summer for a number of
years afterward. The above may not be
a sure euro in all cases, but it u worth
trying, as it can do no liarni if it does no
good Albert S. Trask in ScicotiS
American. .'...
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The Family Oven in Greece.
On Inquiry I found that there was not
as a rule. In Greece, as there is in New
Lngland. any regular day for baking
Washing and baking take nlace when
these are needed The cooking is done, in
many instances, out of doors. Immedi
ately outside of the house, close to the
corner, you often see the family oven. It
is Ivke a huge hen s egg. made of baked
clay, with the narrow end pointing up
ward in me siue is a larre round aner-
A. - 1 j I 1 . ..
iure, wuicu is ine aoor, anu ai ine apex
Is a small vent for the escape of tho
smoke. This Is closed by a stone a3 soon
as the cooking is done. A larre number
of the houses consisted of four walls of
stone, covered with a flat roof overspread
wit a earth or grassy turf Where there
was any escape for the smoke, it was a
rude chimney consisting of four small
piles of stone, which supported a flat slab,
to prevent the wind of heaven from inter
fering with the smoke. But I found in
many Instances in Megara. and elsewhere
in Oreece. that the smoke was allowed the
freedom of the h.quse, and, where it did
not creep out an willingly through some
doubtful bole in the roof. It generally oc
cupied itself with blackening the rafters
or inducing a certain lachrymose condition
ef the eyes, which was extremely painful.
Owing to the steepness of the hill, the
wall which we passed in the rear of the
house was often not more than a few feet
above the level of tho street. Corinth
Cor. Boston Globe. " -
The Knlltic Passion.
Life was ebbing fast and his hours were
few lie was a Third avenue elevated
brakeman. and eating his meals between
stations had sapped his vitality.
"My dear young friend," safd the min
Irter at his bedside, "I trust that what
has been so graciously vouchsafed to me
to s:iy will comfort and sustain yon. I
will leave you now for the present."
"Very well, sir," responded the sick
man. feebly. "Step lively, please." New
York Sun.
Children's Dress in Algiers.
Tlio boys, when running about, wear
nothing but a long white chemise and
d:irk blue vest, but of all bewitching
creatures in the world the little girls can
scarcely be surpassed. They arc every
where, and must strike a stranger, cer
tainly an artist, as a prominent feafuro of
interest. Some are going to the baker's,
carrying unbaked loaves" piled on a plank
on the head, others, with little Liv.s.s
bound buckets brimming with raiik;
singly, in crowds, always fascinating, not
only pretty, but arrayed in an infinite va
riety of costumes, they dart from shadow
into sunlight, and disappear in a tv. ink-
ling round a corner or through adoorwnv.
lhey wear, first, a white chemise with
gauze sleeves, over it a gandoura, or
chemise without sleeves, and reaching
nearly to the ankles, usually of printed
calico, glaring in color, and with spots,
stripes, birds, branches and leaves: this
gandoura is sometimes of rich brocade or
light siik; over the first they often wear
a second gandoura of tullo with a design
in it. ordinarily nothing more nor less than
common white lace-curtain stuff. All the
materials hang limp and flutter when they
run; round the waist a broad ceinture.
and over the shoulders a little bodico. Url
the head a conical cap, alwaj-s of crimson
velvet, more or less ornamented with rold
tl,...,, J. l. :!.!..,.. j i . .
mii-iiu, iii;iuii-u gnu uuniarneu giiis wear
them with a strap underthe chin; married
women tie them on with a colored hand
kerchief besides the strap. F. A. UriJ---man
in Harper's Magazine.
Will he one during which the subjects of
national interesc ami importance will he
strongly agitated and the election of a
President will take place. 'J he people of
Cass County who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social Transactions
of this year and would keep apace
the times should
with
i-oi: jjrrunii Tin-:
IJetter Tlta t an Accident Polioj'.
It is proverbial that a drunken man
seldom gets hurt in fact, a good load of
whisky is said to be better than an acci
dent insurance policy. A few days ago
some young fellows wero watchinc with
Interest the efforts of a pedestrian" along
Dearborn street to make his course a lit
tle less zigzag. It was the width of tbo
walk that bothered him rather than tho
length, when a sudden sidelong phingo
threw him up against an ash receiver that
stood upon the edge of the pavement , and
over it ho went, turning a complete
somersault, landing fiat on his back in the
gutter with a crash that would have
broken every bono in a sober man's body.
Amusement was quickly changed to anx
iety, and ono of the spectators, rushing
across to the prostrate man, endeavored
to raise him, and seeing signs of life,
asked him where he lived. "The answer
satisfied him that there was no occasion
for alarm. "Where do I live?" said tb&
man. "I live right here; como in. boys$;
whatH you taksV" Chicago Herald-
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people we will venture to tpcak of our
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NEUKASKA.
Indies' Shoes Too Small. j
If women would wear the size shoe thev 1
need I would like it better, but they won't ;
if they know it. Do you know what a
largo 44 shoe i3? We'll, now. 1 will tell
you in confidence it is a seven. When rv
woman asks for that kind of shea 1 mark' i
the number from a pair of sevens, fit it oii !
her feet and she' crocs awav delighted.
But three fourths of the ladies have too
small 6Loes. 1 stand by my door on S;;ri- ',
day and watch the nrettv irirls e-Q bv tu
church. They are very .eyeei. bright :
eyed, red cheeked end straight limbed: '
God made them very good but they cau't .
walk in a straight line; thev tco d'inpina? :
and dodging ail over the wain in c-rcokej :
pnths. liko tho wicked the Iiiblo t-i-Uj
about. Why is thai t They aro looking 1
tor son stones m the walk smooth places '
because their feet hurt so badly. They 1
cannot step square and stand ou ihe curb-
stone, ana they dread to put the foot .
down on the cross walk. New lork Sun. '