It is an old saying tht you"ean tell'a man's or woman's character from his shoes. Doubtless the ex-Perienced retail shoe merchant does come to some certain conclusions concerning his customers derived entirely from the looks of their shoes. But it would be a trifle difficult to tell very much nowadays because almost everyone is so well shod. Do you ever see a shoe with sing, or a shoe worn No, "because buttoned and Jaced shoes are practically never worn in this day of low shoes. It is very, very seldom, too, that you see a notably shabby shoe even on. girls of very meager circumstances, and the shoo decidedly run the heel is getting to be more and more a scarcity, There used to be a good many home devices for lengthening.the life and improving the appear ance of shoes. One oft-repeated bit of advice was to rub the inside of a banana skin over brown or tan shoes. This was said to soften and preserve the leather. No article about the care of shoes would ever have been complete without that, One wonders just how many people ever tried it. Another trick was to wash off the outside of brown shoes with warm soapy water in which a little turpentine had been dissolved, We were advised to use vaseline on patent leather, which we were told softened and "fed" the leather.
These remedies may have worked very well with the old-fashioned sort of shoes—but for the pictures que shoes of to-day they might be fa Tittle too drastic. The best that anyone can do for her shoes is to see that they are put on trees promptly when they are taken off and left on trees until worn again, Reside that they should be kept clean—ax clean as is possible by brushing them off after every wea Possibly a few other home remedies might be applied with imunity but the best plan is to take shoes to an expert shoe cleaner from time to time. The up-to-date shoe cleaner is now far more than the old-time bootdblack. He—or she—must know how to take spots and streaks from light colored suede. and kid. how to remove tarnish from metal slippers, how to restore the original color to suede shoes that have "rubbed up," how to bring back pristine whiteness to all the various sorts of white shoes, and how to clean metal and thines-tone buckles.
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