Foot-Wear.

The fit of the stocking is almost as essential to the perfection of the foot as that of the boot or the shoe itself. It should be large enough to allow freedom to the toes, and not so large as to wrinkle on the foot. In a well-fitting stocking the foot can be more accurately measured than otherwise, and the comfort of the foot is sadly impeded by an ill-fitting one.

The feet should be bathed every morning, and for those who walk much, a daily change of stockings is advisable. This daily change is more than advisable, it is necessary, for persons who suffer from perspiring feet. Regular washing of the feet preserves their strength and elasticity, and helps to keep them in shape. At least once a week they should be washed in hot water, with plenty of soap, rubbing them with a ball of sandstone, which will be found a very useful article for toilet purposes, also a tablespoonful of Kretol in the water. The nails should then be carefully pared, and, in drying the feet, much friction should be used in order to stimulate the skin to healthy action.

When corns appear, they may be accepted with resignation as lifelong acquaintances. Seldom, indeed, do they quit the victim, who has invited them by ill-advised pinchings and squeezings. All that one can do is to keep them under control by constant care. The treatment recommended is the same as that used for warts—viz., to pare the hard and dry skin from the tops, and then touch them with the smallest drop of acetic acid, taking care that the acid does not run off the wart upon the neighboring skin, which would occasion inflammation and much pain. This should be done once or twice a day with regularity.

We should, no doubt, easily get rid of all our corns if we could make up our minds to do without shoes, or even to wear them of such a large size as would prevent all pressure upon the corn. This disagreeable effect results quite as often from badly made boots as from injudiciously tight ones. There is a particular knack to be observed in paring a corn. It should be cut in such a manner as to excavate the center, while the hardened sides are left to protect the more sensitive portion against the pressure of the boot. When the corn is small and yet young, the best application is a piece of soft buff-leather spread with adhesive plaster and pierced in the center with a hole of exactly the size of the summit of the corn. There are two varieties of corn, the hard and the soft. The latter occurs between the toes, and is quite as painful as, and less easily guarded against, than the hard variety.

Appendix: Card Text.

M^r and M^rs Grant White
Request the pleasure of your company at dinner,
On —— evening, ——,
At eight o’clock.

81 Graceland Court.
R. S. V. P.

M^r and M^rs Philip Vance
Request the pleasure of
Mr. and Mrs. Otis Sullivan’s
Company at dinner,
On Tuesday, March 6th, at 8 o’clock.

84 Ashland Boulevard.
The favor of an answer is requested.

Mr. and Mrs. Jackson
Request the pleasure of
Mr. and Mrs. Brown’s
Company at dinner,
To meet Robert Browning,
Thursday, October 8th, at seven o’clock.
692 Arch Street.

R. S. V. P.

Mrs Stuyvesant Wentworth
Requests the pleasure of the company of
Mr and Mrs Mark Cowden,
On Wednesday evening, July 4th,
At nine o’clock

Informal.

Mrs. John Burrows,
At Home,
Thursday evening, October first,
At nine o’clock.
1080 LeFrance Avenue

Quadrilles at ten.

Mr. and Mrs. George Douglas
Request the pleasure of your company,
Thursday evening, December twelfth,
At nine o’clock

Delmonico’s.

Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Saltus,
Sanger Halle,
Wednesday evening, January twentieth

German at nine. R. S. V. P.

Mrs. Henry Alexander
Requests the favor of your company on
Tuesday evening, October tenth,
From eight to eleven o’clock,
To meet the
Rev. Prof. Dr. Kemp,
Of the Princeton Theological Seminary

684 West 49th Street. R. S. V. P.

Mrs. L. J. LeFevre
Requests the pleasure of your company,
Saturday evening, November twelfth,
At eight o’clock.

Masquerade.

R. S. V. P. 55 East Thirtieth Street.

Mrs. P. V. VanVechton,
At Home,
Tuesday, April second.

Music at half-past three.

Mr. and Mrs. John Clay and Party.
Mrs. Waite Talcott,
At Home,
Tuesday, August fifth, at four o’clock.
“The Oaks.”

Garden Party. R. S. V. P.

Carriages will meet the 3.40 train from Union Depot.

Mrs George Horton.
Breakfast, Wednesday, at ten o’clock.
24 Euclid Avenue.

Mrs. Arthur Holt
Requests the pleasure of introducing her daughter,
Edith May,
To
M^r and M^rs Ross Clark,
On Thursday evening, December fifth,
At nine o’clock.

28 St. Caroline’s Court. R. S. V. P.

Mrs. Jerome Hastings
Requests the pleasure of your company,
On Thursday, November twelfth,
From five until ten o’clock.

711 DuPage Street. R. S. V. P.

Mr. and Mrs. Richard Earle
Request the pleasure of your company
At the marriage of their daughter,
Guendolen,
To
Mr. Egbert Ray Cranston
On Tuesday, June Eighteenth, 1895,
At half-past twelve o’clock,
Christ Church,
Binghamton.

1885. 1890.

Wooden Wedding
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Grant,
At Home,
Thursday evening, December fifth, 1895,
At half-past eight o’clock.

263 East Thirteenth Street.

To meet their Royal Highnesses,
The Infantes Eulalia
And
Antoine of Spain.
The Spanish Consul
And
Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor
At Home,
Monday, June twelfth, at nine o’clock.

21 Pearson Street.

Mrs. Chandos Miller,
At Home,
Thursday, June fifth, at eight o’clock.
25 Westmoreland Street.

Music.

Mr and Mrs Charles Leigh
Request the pleasure of
Mrs Morton’s
Company on Thursday, the fifth of August,
At three o’clock.
Garden Party. Maple Grove.

Mrs Robert Barton Keene
Requests the pleasure of
Mrs Frederick Daniel’s company at
Luncheon,
Friday, May sixth, at half-past one o’clock.
6 Portland Place.