... evil effects of tight lacing. He pointed out tha all ladies' boots now-a-days possessed no shape correspend r in ing with that of the natural feet. To wear the ient fashionable French boots properly one-half of the fact of should be amputated. The custom ...

... himaitting by he oadide 11holdine up his feet to the moon to warm them. One night, lctasing bis 11froaring frieuds at the Jolly Boot, at as lato hour, ho pro- ceeded to harness his use to The `kaairt as well ly tue hioaftl idedstate woulld ailow him, and ...

... then the other. I the They were strong laced boots, but were drawn off PO' her my ilcet bby the continual exertion of pulling them vic I ? ct oftthedrifts, whicht acted upon them like aas 'tie steam-power boot-jack. I continued to walk in my as ded stockicngs ...

... she must be a young widow, for on a beautiful little c white hand, from which she had removed her g glove, I discovered the golden circle ofmatronhood. t She appeared to be entirely alone, and seem- v ingly engrossed in the book she -was reading, but n ...