Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — To Prevent Ungainly Ankles. [ARTICLE]

To Prevent Ungainly Ankles.

If American girls would confine their use of low shoes indoors they would not risk the undue development of their -ankles. French women are noted for their pretty feeit, and they- invariably wear Mgh shoes for walking.

One of thP comparatively few things that the ha! id of improvement has not tqjK|ie4cia theicesvbelV m Inch is made 1 now Just-as-ltrwas fifty, 100, and more years ago, and has now just the same peculiar, clanking sound, as ertt*. Cow-bells*'are-made,’ *k>ihe of Bpme,qf a (Composition ruetal; toot most of them are made of Ipon and .fijqiphed wfth a doaVlng of brouze. The is not cast; It is Wtt out a sheet of metal. which is folded into shape and metal loop at the top,’'through which the strap Is passed, Is'riveted Hntto" the belL Cowbells are made of ten sizes, whose sounds range through an octave. PpmfftiUaen musical entertainers who play upon bells of one: sort and; another come to the and by selection among bqlls of the j various sizes find'eight bell’s that are accurate in scale.' ’ Therle are etfly four factories in the "United States *ln whloh cowbells are made, , and in each case the is pnly an .pf.oproductlon among many other things. Opwbeßs are. sold all over the. conntfy, the same as ever, but much the greater.number are sold In the South, the and the West, where rarins are larger, less likely to be ttnddr fence,. aid 'cattle are more likely to'stray.* h ' >: Tpdre are sold, in’’those parts of* the country; a hundred dozen ctotebejl* l to every ten,. dpaen; sold; jtn :• the East., cowbells are tot the Various ‘couptries of South America and to Auertralla. , . 1