"Again, the pressure of the upper leather checks the circulation in the foot and makes it cold. If you check the circulation in any part, it becomes cold. The tight shoes, with an elastic worn about the leg just below the knee, so check the circulation in the foot, that the great majority of girls have cold feet. It would, indeed, be rare to find one with warm feet like a boy." Miss B. took her shoe and limped back to her seat quite crest- fallen. Now a dozen girls eagerly put up their hands. Selecting one, Miss R., I said, "What do you wish?" "My shoe is broader than my foot." "Well, send it forward and let me measure it." I found it two and a half inches, or, perhaps, a shade less. "Come, stand on the paper and let me measure your foot." I found it fully three and three quarter inches; one inch and a quarter of foot with nothing to rest upon. Six or eight other girls insisted on having their shoes and feet measured, but among them all we did not find one that had less than an inch and a quarter of foot not matched by the sole. Miss S., a quiet, earnest girl, who was always on the _qui vive_ for the _ought_ of life, rose and said:-- "I have always thought that shoes should have broad soles, and I have tried for years to induce my shoemaker to give me broad soles. He always says he will, but he never does. How can a young lady get broad soles if the shoemaker won't make them? I am sure I should be glad to have mine as broad as the widest spread of my foot, but I cannot get them." SURE WAY TO GET BROAD SOLES. "Miss S., if I will tell you how to induce your shoemaker to make the soles of your shoes as broad as your feet, will you try it?" "I will, and should be very thankful for the suggestion." "Go to him and say, 'Mr. Smith, please let me put my foot on a sheet of paper, resting my whole weight upon one foot, and then, if you please, mark around it with your pencil.' "Of course he will do it very cheerfully. Indeed, for some purpose, which I am sure no man can explain, shoemakers are quite in the habit of taking the size and shape of the foot. I am sure I never saw any evidence that they paid the slightest attention to it in making the shoes. "Then say to Mr. Smith, 'Please measure that and tell me just how wide it is.' "Mr. Smith measures. You look on. He finds that the width is exactly three inches and seven-eighths. "'But,' he will say, 'Miss S., what is all this for?' "'No matter. Now, Mr. Smith, will you please to make the soles of this pair as broad as my feet?' "'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.'