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Show SLIPPERS FOR HOUSE WEAR 73flHY d not snoe ma-nuactur-' e'6 devote sonie special thought H l0 around-the-houso footwear? 1 retty, yot perfectly comfortable sllp-pei-8 to run about tho house, or the apartment with, of a morning during household tasks aro almost unobtaln-able unobtaln-able unless one wants to trip about one's housework In French heels, or walk fiat-fpoted in almost heel-leas boudoir slippers or felt comflcs. One of the most attractive items in a neat, fresh early-morning costume, is neat and engaging footwear folt comltcs, H howevor delightful they may bo for bed H room slippe'rs on cold nlghLs. are any- hing but coquottlah with a short ging-H ging-H ham houso dress and apron. And kid boudoir slippers with pompons on the 1 toe aro equally out o tho picture with i a crisp work-around-the-houso cos- 1 tume. Sport pumps with their com- H fortablo low heels are apt to bo a bit heavy for houso wear; they are usually usual-ly built of calf leather with welted soles and are intended for- footing it out of doors and not over Oriental ruga and hardwood flooring. There remain the partly worn, high-heeled ! pumps that have done service for1 dress-up wear during- last summer, j Soft of leather they arc -and light of sole, hut tripping- about household tasks in French hoels soon wears out the energy of any woman especially if the heels are the least bit "run over," A shopper recently tried in vain to get some soft, light and also attractive slippers for morning work about hgr apartment and finally asked in do-spair: do-spair: "But aren't there some soft kid slippers with low heel's such as old ladles wear surely they do not wear heavy sport pumps or French heeled affairs In the house." She was told that "old ladles did not wear slippers around the house mornings, they had high shoos to protect their ankle1; from drafts." The obliging saleswoin-, an. anxious to please, finally brought her somo strap-slippers which she , called houso slippers. They were soft and light, with round toes and but toned straps over the instep, but they were not especially pretty on tho foot. And tho strap would have to be buttoned but-toned each time they wore donned no slipping into thorn deftly on tho way to answer tho doorbell! Tho woman who was shopping had an inspiration: Why not girls' dancing danc-ing pumps? She hied herself to the girls' andJioys' shoo department and there she found Just what nho wanted a pair of noal. trim, smart looking lit- ; tlo "pumps with light eoles and very low heclsno strap., Just a smart 1 1 t-s lie pump bow across tho toe. ' |