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Show CARE OF TAN SHOES. 1 ' How tho Ingenious UootbUclc Still Earns IIIh Dlmo. "When tan shoes became fashionablo , - three or four years ago tho bootblack V stood aghast. Some of them turned .-. pale, says tho Washington Post, but " ' most of them did not because nature debarred them from that munifesta-v munifesta-v tion of apprehension. As man after v man passed their stands with his feet I shod in coverings that did not admit "of tho old-time "shine," they believed that their race was run. '"-ho ragamuffin who makes his living liv-ing ur)OC tho corners is an individual hard to rt.yn. When tho secoiuV season sea-son of tan bijocs came around a new method of polling had been devised. It has been amVlifled until it has become be-come a science. As at present priced by the high priests of tho art irKM" first a thorough rubbing' withV "np E then the application of n fiVlf lemon; then some mysterioub unguefc nit put on with tho ball of the tlnVm' anrt lastly a brown polish invent;" 0SP dally for tho occasion. This is brushed with a piecj of cainn "a" noi. No woll-cducatcd and colf-rPct' ing bootblack would use nny Nv.r kind. 'Jllie man who is put throuX" this courso of ornamentu sprouts flnd himsolf wearing a pair of now russets, and he pays for it ono dime. Aa this js double tho old price tho operator is happy. IIo has not lost anything by tho shoes whoso introduction promised to prove his banc. I ' |