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Show CARE OF TAN SHOES. How tho Ingenious llootbUolc Still Kfcrna IIU Dime. When tan shoes became fashionablo throe or four years ago tho bootblack stood aghast. Some of thorn turned pale, says tho Washington Post, but most of them did not because nature debarred them from that manifestation manifesta-tion of apprehension. As man after I man passed their stand? vith his foot shod in coverings that did not admit ' of the old-timo "shino," thoy believed ! that their raoc was run. ' The ragamuffin who ma :es his living liv-ing upon tho corners is an individual hard to down. When tho second season sea-son of tan shoes came around a new method of polishing had been devised. It has been amplified until it has bo-como bo-como a science. i As at present practiced by the high prieat3 of the art it requires first a thorough rubbing with a damp rag; then the application of a half lemon; then somo mysterious unguont that is put on with tlio ball of the thumb, and I lastly a brown polish invonted -.boo-oially for tho occasion. This latter is brushed with a piece of canton ilnn-nol. ilnn-nol. Ko well-educated and solf-rospect-ing bootblack would use any other kind. Tho man who is put through this course of ornamental sprouts find himself wearing a pair of now russets, and ho pays for it ono dime. As this is double the old price tho opon.vor is happy. He haa not lost anything by the shoes whoso introduction promisod to prove his bane. ' |
