Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1881 — A Romance of a Pretty Foot. [ARTICLE]

A Romance of a Pretty Foot.

Philadelph 1% Times. ; I don’t know that there is anything in the world thatjs so well calculated to excite envy as a pretty foot, and when a person can boatt of such a possession he or she is very apt, if poverty doesn’t stand in the way, to make the most of it. A pretty foot is a fortune to a woman. La9t year I made a pair of shoes for a lady who lad as pretty feet as were ever fashioned. It was a pleasure for me to make the shoes, and when they were finished I put them in the show-window in a very conspicuous place where I could view them at my leisure. Pretty soon a nicely-dressed gentleman stopped and began looking at them very attentively. Presently he entered the etore and inquired il they were for sale. I told him no, that they were made for one of my customers. He looked surprised and asked the lady’s name. I would.not give him this much satisfaction, but told him where she lived, however. 1 was considerably surprised to.learn afterward that be was calling at the house, and more surprised still when the lady, accompanied by the gentleman, called at the store three months later. She called him “dear” then, so I guess they were married.