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Show WOMAN'S DAMAGING VANITY Love of Fine Appearance Sometimes Leads to Painful Self- Sacrifice. When tho Leicester woman was miKfing some time ,. , i. r relatives published n detailed dcii-ukn ot her. It contained this sentence. "Small toe of each foot missing. ' As It was very unlikely thut both toes hud been amputated am-putated by accident, some one asked tho woman's mother to account for the lost toes. After a gallant effort to evade tho question, the old lady reluctantly reluct-antly con'pssed that her daughter had the toes severed to enable her to wear very small shoes! It Is well known that hundreds of won ".n ruffT torture e."ry week by having their cheeks tinted with electric elec-tric needles, v having almost Invisible hatrs plucked from their fair faces. In most lonely dlbtrlcts such as1 the Islets ot the Irish and Scottish coasts thf women have a weakness for gaudy colors. A parson In little St. K'..ur. tells of a servant- Md of his a native of the Island wt- nsked his l)6i mission to take a bripMly-coInred Persian hearthrug to clniTh to use as n shawl. Thinking the request was rrerely u crude Joke, he laughingly assented. as-sented. To his astonishment, he beheld be-held her, a little later, walking Jauntily down tho aisle of the church, with the rainbow-colored rug about her shoulders, ndmlred and envied by the feminine portion of the congregation, at least , |