Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — It Was a Moving Spectacle. [ARTICLE]

It Was a Moving Spectacle.

In a Sixth avenue elevated train the other day, says the New York Sun, in one of the cross seats, sat a tired, fret-ful-looking woman in a black alpaca gown. Her lap was full of bundles. Her mouth was drawn in such a peculiar way that it was evident that she was suffering. A-restless way she had of moving her feet about attracted attention to them. She had on a pair of new shoes, and it was not hard to guess that they were the cause of her suffering. When the train pulled out of the Twenty-second street station she looked all around, and then, with an expression of firm determination she stooped over and unbuttoned her shoes. She straightened herself up and smoothed down her skirts, and whon she gave a long sigh of relief it was plain that she had taken off the shoes. The pained expression in her face gradually faded before an expression of content and even happiness. At Fifty-ninth street and Eighth aVenue she leaned over with a Bort of groan, and, reaching under her skirts, began to put the shoes on again. But the more she tugged the more obstinate the sho -s got. As the streets went by she got more and more excited. The shoes refused to go on. Her feet had swollen, and now the shoes were several sizes too small for her. At last she made no concealment of her efforts, but boldly sawed and jerked at the shoe. Just as the guard yelled “Sixty-sixth,” one shoe went on and the woman groaned out a very queer little word from between her clinched teeth. She gathered up her other shoe and her bundles and rushed from the car. Limping with both feet—one foot shod and one covered only with a stocking—she marched along the platform, down the steps, and up the boulevard. One leg Was shorter than the other. Everybody was looking at her feet to see the cause and her face was something to see.