SHOE CUPBOARD CARE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20426, 5 June 1928, Page 17

SHOE CUPBOARD CARE.

A shabby pair of shoes bears silent but eloquent witness to its owners neglect, for with small attentions bestowed regularly good footwear will look well till it is on its very last soles. Fashion changes in shoes as in everything else, and the wise woman buys only as many pairs as she absolutely needs and keeps them smart till the last day of wearing, not by putting them by for a month es rest (quite a sound idea if modes were stable), but by the regular feeding and cleaning of the uppers and by prompt attention to the needs of heels and soles. Now that shoe-trees can be had for a few pence, every careful woman will see that each pair of shoes possesses this shape restorer, and wears it, too, whether at home or on holiday, whenever the shoes are not actually on her feet. Skeleton trees have several advantages over solid ones, for in the space left there is plenty of room to accommodate a velvet cloth, a nail brush, a tin of polish, or a piece of very fine sandpaper, according to the nature of the individual pair of shoes. On coming in and treeing thfi shoes the wearer finds in the presence of these restoratives a hint to wipe at once the mud or dust from patent leather or calf, to brush the grit from buckskin and suede, and efface with the friction of 'sandpaper any dirty marks on undressei skin.