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newly rich of the draft-horse classes, can 

 only produce hybrids. Some of the well- 

 bred families of New York and Boston, 

 who have met with misfortune, have al- 

 lowed their daughters to marry sons of the 

 rich of Ehine Wine names. Such alliances 

 restore lost money but breed an unholy hu- 

 man mixture, just as they did in Chicago. 

 The ladies' shoe and slipper factories of 

 Haverhill and Lynn are now driven to their 

 wits' end to design shoes and slippers to 

 hide the large and ugly shaped feet of such 

 offspring, until their parents can find eligi- 

 bles to marry them. If the young lady is 

 short and has big feet, the heels are 

 raised by a wedge inserted in the shoe and 

 she is compelled to walk like a toe-dancer. 

 It is somewhat painful, but it shortens the 

 foot and is rather artistic; or, if she be 

 tall and has long feet, the heel is placed 

 in the middle of the sole and gracefully 

 curved towards the toes; and, when the 

 owner is thus shod for a social function, 

 the real heel extends back and is bigger 

 than that of a corn-field lady of Senegam- 

 bian ancestry. No longer do you see our 



