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Show MEET DEMAND FOR ODD SHOES Manufacturers and Dealers Prepared for Need, and There Is No Difficulty Dif-ficulty In the Matter. When a one legged man buys a shoe the dealer sends to the factory for a shoe to match the one left remaining, n these days of the use of machinery In every process of their manufacture shoes are made with the utmost exactness ex-actness and precision and it Is easily possible to mate that remaining shoe with the greatest nicety in size, style, material and finish. Few people have feet exactly alike, commonly the left foot is larger than the right, so that one shoe may fit a little more snugly than the other. Commonly, however, people buy shoes In regularly matched pairs, the difference dif-ference in their feet, if it is noticeable to them at all, not being enough to make any other course desirable. But there are people who buy shoes of different sizes or widths, in which case the dealer breaks two pairs for them, giving them, to fit their feet, one shoe from each. In such cases the dealer matches up the two remaining remain-ing shoes, one from each of two pairs, just as he would where he had broken one pair to sell one shoe to a one legged man. But a' man doesn't have to be one legged or to have feet of uneven slze3 or shapes to make him ask the dealer to break a pair of shoes for him. Here was a man with two perfectly good feet who came into the store where he was accustomed to buy and who wanted on this occasion one shoe. Traveling in a sleeping car his shoes had been mixed up with others and he had got back one of his own and one of some other man's; a fact which he had not discovered until he was too far away from train and station to make return and setting things right possible; and now he came in to buy one shoe to match his own. |