"'Certainly, Miss S., I will make them all nice and broad.'
"'Mr. Smith, please make the soles as broad as my feet this time.'
"'Why, certainly, Miss, what is the trouble? I will give them to you real nice and wide.'
"'You always tell me so; but when they come home, they are always those little narrow ones.'
"'Miss S., you shouldn't say so. I always make the soles of my shoes very broad. It will be all right.. You needn't worry about that.'
"'Well, Mr. Smith, you need not send these shoes to me; I will come for them. The width of my foot is three inches and seven-eighths. Very well; when I come for these shoes, I shall measure the width of the soles; if they are one-eighth of an inch less than three inches and seven-eighths, I will not touch them.'
"That struggle is all over. Mr. Smith will, for the first time in his life, keep his broad-sole promise."
BEAUTY OF BROAD SOLES.
'Besides the advantages I have named, broad soles are much handsomer than narrow ones. They make the foot look smaller. If one puts his foot into a shoe too short, and too narrow, and the toes and sides of the foot press out all around over the sole, it makes the foot look big; but if the sole be large enough to let the foot rest in its natural relations, it looks much smaller. We men wear boots, often, with broad soles that project well on both sides. Such boots are thought to be particularly stylish.