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Show to Inveigh against the foibles and whims of the ladle in which vanity plays a part, for of all the Influences In a woman's life agalnBt which it Is useless, to contend la the pride on which faBhlon-makcra build their trade. . WOMEN OF OGDEN AND EL8EWHERE The vanity or woman has been ex-posedr ex-posedr The shoe manufacturers in convention in New York nad up the question of marking women's shoes with exact sizes, but the retail dealers deal-ers throughout the country protested, declaring that to disclose tho size ot a woman's shoe would prove an act ho offensive as to injure the shoe trade. Now what do you think ot that? There Is no way by which to provo that a woman wears a No. 3 or a No. e ..U rrU . ... mu. iuo woman nerseii does not know. The shoe dealer is Torced to please. If a lady with a big foot 6ayB ahe can year a No. 2 shoe, the shoe-man shoe-man must meet tho demand and he does so by presenting tho fair customer custo-mer with a No. 6 marked No. 2, or marked to that the purchaser cannot dispute the correctness of the measurement, meas-urement, in fact there is no disposition disposi-tion on the part of the lady to dispute tho marking. The woman goes homo to boast to other women that she 1 wears a No. 2 shoe and, If they doubt her statement, she can produce the number. This secret, so closely guarded by the shoe man, will cause more than cue husband to smile as he contemplates contem-plates the size of shoe his wire says she wears aud tho size which he had fixed upon in his own mind. The disclosure dis-closure aleo proves that it Is useless |