Show CARE OF TAN SHOES how the inge alous C ic stin still earns ills DI dime die e when tan shoes became fashionable three or four years ago the bootblack stood aghast some of them turned pale says the washington post but most of them did not because nature debarred barred de them from that manifestation of apprehension n sion A As s man man after man passed their stands with his feet shod in coverings that did not admit of the old time shine they believed that their race was run thea the ragamuffin who makes his hip jiving upon the corners is an individual hard to down when the second season of tan shoes came around a new method of polishing had been devised it has been amplified until it has become a science As at present practiced by the high priests of the art it requires first a thorough rubbing with a damp rag rag then the application of a halt half 1 lemon amoz then some mysterious unguent that is put on with the balcof ball of the thumb and lastly a brown polish invented especially for the occasion this latter is brushed with a piece of canton fla flannel n no well educated and self respect ing bootblack would use any other kind the man who is put through this course of ornamental sprouts finds himself wearing a pair of new russets and he pays for it one dime As this is double the old price the operator is is happy lie ile has not lost anything by the shoes whose introduction promised to prove his bane |