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Show A CASE FOR SYMPATHY. - The Sultan of Turkey is a slave to custom. He cannot wear any article of dress twice. From fez to slipper he must be clothed anew seven times a week. He has our hearty commiseration, as has any man who knows not the luxury of a favorite suit of clothes, which he has learned to love as an old friend, or the easy, yielding shoes, whose comforting embrace receive the tender feet after a day of weary toil. There is a luxury in old shoes in which royalty itself has found delight. The one historical incident that we recollect to the credit of King James I of England, was that he was wont to call for his old shoes. |