The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-23
BOOTS AND THE MAN.
Square Toes in the sculptors Work
 Troubles ill the Armies.

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 Troubles in the Armies.
 l Recent events have made a great | many of his majesty's subjects pay { | visit to Kensington Gardens to havs
 another look at the memorial tha Queen Victoria caused to be erected tc the Prince Consort. An old Greek wri- ter--was it ATatus?-remarked that if men were lions, we should see the stat l ues of the gods also resembling lions | On this analogy, it is fair to infer that the sculptors engaged on the Albert memorial wore square toed boots Cor square toed shoes)
 The Prince Cpnsort is represented by J. H. Foley R. A, as wearing low heeled, square toed "Derbies," With buckleson then--shoes, of course; for he was in court dress. Patrick Mac Dowell, R. A., had no chance for more than one pair os sandals in the group of Europe" J. H. Foley worked two pairs of square toed footgear into the group Asia" William Theed's "Afri- ca" has lovely foot in comfortable sandal the elderly Egyptian showing the front portion of an easy, square
 
 is shoeless, the whole group "Agricul- ture," by William Calder Marshall, R. A., shows no feet. nor does the work "Manufactures,"' by Henry Weekes, R. A. In T. Thorneycrofts Commerce, the boots are square toed, and in J.. Lawlor's Engineering" there is most serviceable thick sole to square toed boot
 But it is on the "Podium' that we mo- tice that people of mark in all ages scorned the pointed toe. "The Paint ers,'' on the east front, are the work of H. H. Armstead, A. R. A.. as are "The Poets and Musicians on the south front J. B. Philip did "The Archi- tects," on the north front, and 4The Sculptors" on the west front Shakes peare's shoe would have suited Beetho- ven; it would have done for Schiller; it would have done for Handel. You look in vain for frivolous pointed toe on Moliere or Benvenuto Cellini, Gains borough, Hogarth. Rubens-all square toed. Jehan de Chelles, the designer of the western portico of Notre Dame, has his boot heightened out after the man. ner of the thirteenth century. in which he fourlshed. He alone deviates from the fashion the Queen Nitocris followed some twenty-one hundred years before Christ, of wearing a sensible shoe or sandal. It is the way of London street boys to chaff anybody whom they see carrying a pair of boots. What are yer goin' to do with them, eh? Put 'em on your 'ead?' The sculptors who ex- ecuted the Albert memorial have been of their race in recording that it was the exception for men of great minds not to wear comfortable boots. The leading lines in the Town and Trade of Fleet street are boots and
 brains? |. well, newspaper offices. Now. apropos des bottes The Ger man government offers an immense | sum of money for the invention of the | perfect marching boot. The present | war has discounted Jackboots in favor | of ankle boots with putties or leggings. ] Jackboots, to be comfortable, require l -reeing up every now and then; putties | 'ake a long time to put on; the puttie egging seemed to solve the problem A West End firm, however exposes in its windows 'legging trees," arrangements with brass fit ings, but surely not necessary on &C., i've service. The present Pimlieo boot, ssued to the troops, is too tight over he instep Inorder not to be pinched 'ver the instep, men have to take a 'oot ln other respects too large for ; hem. They often have these made