| Show weara SIXTEEN A boag trouble in getting pur of boots dispatch arnold of thompson is only ag years old but he feet tall and his feet are famosa they are bigger thau any other feet in windham county and perhaps buthe new england states young am old stepped into eli gracya ahoe shop at central village the other day and said he would like to have the make him a pair of boots all right said ali just put your foot on this measure and ill get your size arnold tried to do as he had been bidden but found it impossible to comply with the request although tracy slipped the market out to the jumping off place on the measure there was not nealry enough to accommodate he young mans extraordinary tra ordinary foot well said he looking up aghast 1 I never you beat the record what size boot do you usually wear oh generally I 1 can get on six teens replied the youth with in complacency but latterly pinched my leet some and I 1 guess ill take a size or two larger this time tracy then made an approximate estimate of the big foot and found that it called for a boot one inch and a half longer than hid measure 1 I cant fill the bill for you said be for you hakea boot that is bigger than any last that is made so young arnold had to go away without any hope and he is in a dilemma the prospect is that he will have to go during the remainder ot his life unless he can persuade some liberal contractor to make a last especially for his use which will be expensive arnold is not the only six footer and big footer in his family he has a sister who is six feet tall but it do for any one to draw further conclusions dog dance kansas city jovenal the southern atea bad their dog dance about the middle of september said charles A bartholomew tholo mew their agent the dog dance is one of thi great feasts and dances of the southern utes A fine dog is boiled for the occasion upon which a feast is made there is dancing and a number of the bucks go through gyrations keeping time to a drum beat with weird incantations and songs the dancers are almost naked it ia not a general custom of the lutcs to cat aogi said air bartholomew and I 1 only know of them indulging in that kind of a feast at the time of this donee it is a kind of big medicine affair A dog is selected and boiled the bucks or a certain number of them dance ki an almost naked cond the dag ia eaten which ia supposed to guard aud protect them in certain ways the atea have made many strides toward civilization aud have accomplished a great deal but the dog dance and other customs show what a hold superstition still baa upon them |
