The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-27
SHOES.

waltzng all around the might
shoes. And indeed they something proud of,
shpey and shiny with bewitchng tassels at the they
bae fair rival the Cinderella They
entirely eclpsed the slippers particular
the latter came from at command
godmother, Goody's very noisy
shoe factory both interesting. Goody
been there but she has heard deal about it. Once
went there business soried
red brick block which looked as any
Of mysterious secrets if it only wanted to; there
roomy office glass pattern
bow-colored sunshine the floor there de-
cided odor of Shoes of distant thunder
that is all story making
of shoes is much the fully interesting that
of any shoes. z.=.SEzr5e.
Dame Fashions Finger.
Dame Fashion has finger in the making of shoes
she does with almost everything else that although shoes
for fall spring always turned there
styles without number highly important that Gocdys
shoes should be STYLISH they must be Correctly made too
for it would them pinch her pink So
the design for each part first by
body who his business thoroughly Then another
body patterns from sheet of exactly like the
drawing Ihe zinc models We're fastened into one SIDE OF
curious machine. pasteboard
into the other under pencil the machine
whirred and there the pattern all marked on the paste
board patterns then bound with brass
stamped with the number size style of shoe
in racks all labeled nothing could be lost Perhaps half
the workroom
might hide if left to shift
Tor themselves SO there was pattern boy in charge OF
them whose duty it to them to the cutters The
other half of the the cutting Rows of
tables extended the length of the with the cutters
standing before them at easy intervals.
With the Gambolng Kid
On green mountain slope not very long there
gamboled lively kid whose skin fine soft
Goody's might been in Central South
America, southwestern Europe, shpoads of goat
including the of kids lambs
with different
forheavier work, and kid. called vic
"gazed gondola medium work. Yet other
colt skins from Russia, and kangaroo skins
from Australia for making the shiny tips for
Goody's these brought in raw:
state that is they had been merely picked in salt with
the hair still
Climatic conditions made great difference in these
climate soft mel
rigorous climate; the latter
tougher and the crinky grain prominent
skins sent to tanneries at different points
east kid skins for infants shoes being coored
every imaginable though red and blue
added the list patent leather,
been obtained by
backing applied thoroughly tanned
skins. skins in the factory from
good, in this country and
Work Begins in Earnest
skin of frolicsome kid laid the table be
cutter began in earnest The cutter had
knife with thin sharp blade, little some
body baby cycle and then changed
laid the patterns the skim and with
easy, his knife around them He
particular the right of the grain the
stretch all parts of the shoes
except solos, pair extraordinary paione of
a limited number great being
made each the would nave had only the
part to When all parts of the uppers
had been tied into bundle labelled
and the floor above, together
with full of other
room, where the ssewed together
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