"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."