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Show Hi CARE OF TAN SHOES. H How tho Ingenlouii ISootblacK Still Koran B&; HI Dlmo. Bjl When tan shoes became fashionable H three or four yearn ago the bootblack BS stood aghast. Somo of them turned Bfj pale, says the "Washington Post, but 9M most of them did not because nature Bv debarred them from that manifesta- BS tion of apprehension. As man after W man passed their stands with hin foot JB shod ki coverings that did not admit lUtf of tho old-limo "shino," thoy believed Blv thit their race was run. BJk The ragamuflin who makes his llv- K ing upon tho corners is mi individual Hi hard to down. When tlio second sea- Bnr non of tan shoes camo around n now Ejj mothod of polishing had boon devised. Bj It has been amplified until it has bo- Bj corno a science. B As at present practiced by the high BH priests of the art it requires first a Ml thorough rubbing with a damp rug; Bk then tho application of a half lemon; H then 6omo mysterious unguent that is BH put ou with tho bull of the thumb, and. BJR lastly a brown polish invented espo- Hffl', oially for tho occasion. This latter is IMb brushed with a piece of canton Hun- Iwff noi. No well-educated and solf-ro3pect- HI;!; ing bootblack would use any other wlfft kind. Tho man who is put through fflfm this courso of ornamental sproutu finds ylWl himself wearing a pair of now russets,' mm and he pays for It one dime. As this IIE ig doublo tho old price tho operator is IB happy- IToIioh not lost anything by mE tho shoos whosu introduction promised wjgvf to prove his bane-. |