A Homemade Sign

On Lexington avenue near Eightythird street there stands in front of a thoeniaker's shop a home paiiited sign that is pitifully comic. It would be a painfully doformed man indeed vhj could wear a boot shaped like the on thereon displayed, beneath whicli is thu announcerueiit that "Laddies sheos'" will be "half soeld" and heeled for ona price; "Childrings and mans" for another. Apropos of this subject, I saw a shoeinakor's sign the other day bearing the euphonious and appropriate name oi