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Show Fortunes Spent In Shoes. Fortunes havo been lavished upon shoes. Men as widely apart in every circumstance of lifo as Sir Walter Raleigh and Caligula had their shoes enriched with precious stones to tho value of thousands of dollars. When tho tomb of Henry VI of Sicily, who died in 1187, was opened In tho cathedral cathe-dral of Palermo, shoes mado of cloth of gold and embroidered with pearls wero found on the dead monarch's i feet, and also on those of his queen. In the timo of Louis XIV of Franco tho courtiers of Versailles wero remarkable re-markable for their boots, tho tops of which wero enormously largo and wide, and wero decorated with a profusion pro-fusion of costly lace. |