Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-01-10
THE SHOEMAKER.
HOW MACHINERY HAS suPPL4nTec
THE MAN or THE LAPsTonE.

HOW MACHINERY HAS suPPL4NTEc
THE MAN or THE LAPsTonE.
Miseriss which tho KnIshts Of a.
crispin Infict on Their Fellow cres-
fures-Racts ConcerBfsx Reyoiufion-
lied Trads-s1.nuf.~surins Plant.
3Ah, but have no trouble with new Shoes !,
explains the SELF compliment egossst. WHO al
ways has patent for everything. II orIy
wear them q few hours each DAY. and some
times take whole month to break 10 . ner
pair
But Why does be only wear then; q few
hours each day1 And why does ise need .
month 70 make bis feet comfortxoaes Simply
because II man Is n any respect tsnderfoot.
D. must always keep his new shoes from one
week TO thirty days On probation before he
vhi be quite certain shat he viii not have to
throw them away or give them TO the poor.
Sonaetimes they revive latent corn vi,ien
The Old shoes Ia their turn had brought to life.
and then permitted to lie inactive for a fez
nonfhA Sonnet mes thu leather oroyAz 10 r..
TOO bard and inhsxibse, and binds the fesot
ike viss until the bones ache and thu
muscles become benumbed. There are n,en
Who can hardly pas . shoe store without
pAng, and whose keenext sense OF buu,nr
misery b derived from their sxperiencs with
new shoeA
It may b be.d that the shoemaker sr- MOI
altogether to blame for the miserfes which
they fnfict ON their fellow creatures M
many yean since women prided tbe,use,ve.
on having nnaii waists, and sought bv .rti
dcial means to make their figures look IiEs
hour giaase& But the corset makers were
not the parties to be beid responsible. Tbe
fauif was to b charged to . perverted artistic
ssi'se, 70 conviction that an u1rnataralfy
smsu waist added to the feminine power *
fascination Il did nothing OF the sort II
only made the female figure look ridiculous.
and such also b the effect Of many Of tie
fashions which obtain In shoes on tie s:,sp<
OF me seeS But no matter. II tie shoe il,
sen, Without any references to tie puruoss for
which il was fashioned, b only an .erseal,Is
object TO che eye, there viii be . man found
70 put his foot In it
And what ID the RESULT Hard ana soft
'orns, bunions. much suffering snd some
nmes profanity. What, too, l. the sr<iseie
RESULT Were any artist to paint picture
with bare fert, and follow accurately ti,e
most perfect model that could be founsi among
90 adult shoe clad population OF Europe or
Ansrica. he would fail 10 get q pIa-s Tor his
work IN any respectable exhibition To this
complexion has il come at last We ruuxs 1o
70 the nursery. the savage tribes. or 10 tn
antique, II We wish 70 know what pa.rr- In.
tended 70 create when she fashioned h,rnsr
foot. Babies, North American Ind ans. ard
statues have toes, but civilized men and
women have them no mora They have ONLY
. COMPRISED mass Of bones, n1,-scsea. and
oofns where toes ought to Be permitted to
grow and expand But were the fashionable
shoemaker to defy the prevailing taste and
oner covering for the foot that would per
init natural growth, be would fni no rms
'omera According to the modern conception
OF what Is shapelv. nature male mistake
when she fashioned foot broader at the to<x
than at the instep- But the modern idea OF
pretty foot Is about as nearly correct a. the
recently modern idea of pretty waist: and
we're shoes modelled after the exa-s natural
form OF toe foot. we shouI soon learn 10 won
der how we ever tolerated any her model.
No industrial revolution was ever more
complete than the revol1 ion which has ken
place In s0osrnakins during the last twenty
ave years. The cobbler We shall have aivavx
with rs. but the shoemaker has almost corn
plesely changed his form Is to be feared
TOO, that be Is no longer entitled to claim the
protection Of his tutelar 81. Crisoiu. fo- he
has become the servant Of witch. And such
= wttchi Driven to lis highest CAPACITY
single Mckay machire has been known to
clap the soles upon l -2oo pairs OF new shoss
within ten hours. and il takes SO hands
working IN grea. part with Jet other iagenI-
Gus labor saving machines, to feed one of
toese Unsuitable sritchsrs. and clear aw.y the
tables after it has finished It viii be sesn.
therefore, that the Mckay machine Is not
" n 7r.%V f,-vs - -
In the best provided shops the si.ie stitching.
t;eelins and even the lasting ara done BY s,b-
sidiary machines, and 50 also would Be the
cutting. were it not for the inIpe-fec.ious Of
tho leather. which dsusand the services OF
practicad eye in selecting the parts that are
NJ fer USE Yet the work is done with so lit
tie effort that a motor OF single horss power
would drive q hall dozen or more Of the Nc
Kay machines at one and the sans tina
After this statement Of is capacity It will
b seen that It IS only fair metaphor and no.
nyper5ols TO cal tie machine q witch Iii
enineutiy proper, too, tia. tie chief seats Of
Its activity should be found st LYNN and
Haverhill, cities in TIE same state WITH witch
killing Salem, and no. 50 distant IS TO be nm
consenital in their origin Bus the city Of
Lynn, notwithstanding lis reputation. Is not
% murh . monopoiis: az stoemak1n- as
soma persons suppose- New YORK Gains
everything, and within her wilderness o.
brick and mortar she i coati;-z.lv evoIr-
Ing pnenorns. that are surprise 20 even
her own citizens Who wocA believe that
within a mile and half Of the CITY hall.
mainly, indeed, within $ quarter OF a mile OF
that place, there are alR,os. as many firms Of
shoe manufacturers IS ara 10 be found in
either Of the cities Of Lynn or EaverhilIl The
statement wocld no. &c believed were it not
possible to furnish the s-,ares But it Is quite
possible There are IS5 firms in Lynn, I7s II
Haverhll, and IT, IN New York
But Lynn will boast OF the sizs o. her fac
tories, and point &c the snrua vsiue Of her
new shoes as evidence Of her general sIre-i-
GRITTY. 1t Is certain th&t she has some pretty
large factories. and can point to one firm tAzt
turns out IL, ooo pairs Of shoes eaca day. But
there IS firm In New YORK THAI produces
shoes to the value Of about 81 ,GxQ. 90 annual
ly and there are others that ran well uo among
tie hundreds Of thousands Estimates differ
on the comparative value Of tbs products Of
the two cities, bus in this rescec. we must
concede 10 Lynn a long lead oser the me
tropohs Judging from the report 81 goods
shipped through Boston le.veen tie first OF
last January and the last Of Angus. u Civ
ing to Lynn her probable p-opo-tios- = the
total, her annual product canno. sn1o.,..t 10
much less than SIS. coo 600, while the an.,. al
product Of New York Is not estimated a. mae
than Sio, ooo, 600
L has been saii that tie capacity of IL.
shoe manufacturing liant in the Uni,a,
States is equal in th--e l-r'nths to the marks,
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