Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1915 — Minneapolis Women Now Hear Truth About Feet [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Minneapolis Women Now Hear Truth About Feet

MINNEAPOLIS. —No Minneapolis woman with a No. 8 foot can get by any longer with the illusion that she is wearing a No. 6. The shoe clerks have reformed. No woman who wears a No. 6 can longer get away with the

idea that her little trllbys are “comfy” and roomy in a No. 5 or No. 4%. The cold, hard, bitter truth Is going to be told hereafter by the former polite and oily diplomats of the pedalincasing profession, let the consequences be what they may. Women who find that their feet have grown a size or more since last they were fitted need not be suprlsed. Many pairs of feet will have grown all of that. Patience is paramount among the

professional purveyors to women’s pride and vanity. Feet are going to be "Just feet” hereafter to the shoe clerks, and if a pair happens to be No. 10 there will be no efforts on their part to conceal that fact, or to deceive, delude, mislead, misguide or hypnotise the fair possessor «f such Chicagolike equipment into the belief that they are anything smaller. The fisherman, the theatrical manager and the traveling man in general img have stood among the prominent prevaricators of the country. But few have the nerve to claim to measure up to that kid-topped, double-Boled deceiver, the shoe clerk. George A. Pierce, who ought to know, because he manages a big downtown shoe department, and is president of the Minneapolis Shoe Retailers association, told a nice-looking, well-groomed and gentlemanly lot of men right to their faces that they ought to be ashamed of themselves, when the association, which is composed of sixty managers or buyers, met recently. One ventured to say that the women want to be deceived. "That is a delusion,” Mr. Pierce said, “a double delusion. It is a case of double self-hypnosis. The shoe clerk believes that the woman he is waiting on believes that she will be happier if she is told that the No. 5 she is trying on is a No. 4 or 4%. . t "I believe we can do no better service than to rid the public of the idea tii.t ail shoe men are liars when it comes to fitting feet,” Mr. Pierce said.