Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1914 — Rule of the Colonial Pump Is Here [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Rule of the Colonial Pump Is Here

TRIUMPHANT in the realm of footwear are the Colonial pumps, and they deserve all the admiration they have received at the hands of appreciative women. This appreciation is of a very substantial kind, since wellmade pumps bring from $6 to sll a pair. They are marvels df fit and shapeliness and comfort, and have other features to recommend them to all those who are growing more and more exacting as to their footwear. First Is their splendid style, and then their adaptability to occasions. The saihe pair of pumps, finished with a plain, dull black buckle, which does duty for the morning walk, the shopping tour and utility wear in general, by a change pf buckles,, shines otherwhere as well. Several sets of buckles to one pair of pumps help out wonderfully. Small, cut steel ones, mounted on a tiny flat bow, become the visiting gown, and for the tango tea large and somewhat showier steel buckles are appropriately adopted.

In the illustration given here one of the number (with small straps and body of the shoe in patent leather with vamp in a dull finish) shows how well two different leathers look when combined. '-his vamp is more comfortable and cooler than an all-patent-leather shoe. The management of the straps allows the proper adjustment of the shoe without too much incurving at the back. There is among the wonderful variety' of patterns in which Colonial pumps are made a shoe suited to every foot. And there Is nothing else in which the foot looks quite so attractively dressed.

The good-looking and substantial boot also shown in the picture is for those who undertake all sorts of excursions in walking, mountain climbing, and traveling, or those who like a plain and substantial and altogether comfortable shoe for dally wear. It is made with kid vamp and cloth lippers, and may be had in combinations of leather. The sole is fairly heavy and has a small extension; the heel is low. In keeping with its general character the stitching of the parts together makes its only decoration. This particular shoe was designed for the miss, but it is so similar in character to the shoe for grown-ups which Answers the purposes described, that there is no apparent difference

in them.

JULIA BOTTOMLEY.