Show oun OUR I 1 LA labarn narn to hj key tir its sh chals Als an 1 th be nab makere and haberdashers who tatar to the wants of the elite assert that their iut rons this year demand hosiery and shoes averaging ave raRing from ono half to one anil and a halfe hair I 1 a larger than they dl I 1 the rise years ago says the new lor or herald the majority of the dealers li elleve Ml leve that the overage average length anil arid ot of men mens ft feet have beau steadily increasing ance since the wane ot at the fashion alch demanded a pointed toe and tight fitting oboe this they explain by sa ing 1 that the effect ot of the style in vogue six year years ago wai was to cramp and distort the natural development of the feet ft utica hen the style changed and comfort botar q the criterion of fashion nature again excited vacit self bat t which had become distorted during the reign of the narrow hoc shoo and pointed too toe lowly slowly beran began td to broaden and adapt themselves to their new surroundings the change being gradual ent for a long time un notice noticed and not until the merchants ner chanta recently began to compare their alee sales of at he ilie ear ears ago with those of today man it found that the average inert ase har tins been approximately one aize size leveral nell mell knon hoc shoo dealers ald said trat w hen they first began o 0 to notice the apparent chanab they became interested and anti studied eti idled the problem I 1 ahey hey found tuat when fashion demanded the use of narrow how feet were closely confined and by degrees became become email small aa As aryls lyl changed and anti an easy tit was via alone desired ilc tle feet seemed to expand and anti groa gro steadily tea dlly larger until the fashion gain required ru lre small neat tet feet hn hen the process w biltl be repeated one merchant versed u ancient and oriental history hit tory pointed out to me the fact that in countries where the sandals or other loose foot covering la Is generally worn the feet of at the inhabitants are comparatively large and in countries count rlee abe r big shoe li Is la in poor tate taste small ellin I 1 g re in the majority A n broadway Uro adway I 1 I 1 hoeler hen I 1 told him the theory advanced by the orbr haberdashers I 1 and shoemakers smiled incredulously and aid said III tell you hat my experience per peri lence ence bas been perhaps it would bo interest Inte reet ng 1 hen times are hard I 1 notice hat that men order large socks and when there Is plenty of money they i prefer clofie atting acting ones it can all be reduced to a question lon of economics la my opinion large hose or longer than those ot of perfect tit but they are ars not so comfortable most lost well dreesen men are the tint first to feel the pressure of pf hird ht rd times and anti then begin to economize I 1 hey would probably I 1 deny it it you hould should confront them ath the statement that for the sake of earing saving a quarter they were wearing a pair of misfit socks but under thesa these conn conditions alons nine times out of ten the tb sec accusation would be true |