The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-24
Boots with Trousers Tucked In
This of Footwear Recommended Shoe Man
Health

wore boots after that, and did not have any
more trouble about catching cold.
You see. walking about the platform
all day handling freight and the cold wind
coming from underneath the plankS of the
platform and blowing up his trousers legs
gave him cold; but with his trousers inside
his boots. and his legs better protected,
why those draughts didn't affect him any
more and he was all right.
II am a believer in boots, and although
men are not wearing them any more the
wear in the winter on freight platforms
and everywhere else.
THE LEVEL-HEADED FARMER.
why do you suppose the countryman
wears his trousers inside his bootlegs? 1t
isn't because he is hayseed and a farmer
and just wears them that way for the
reason he doesn't know any better. 1t is
because he is wise and knows how to take
care of himself. He realizes that it is the
best way to wear them TO keep out the cold,
and TO protect him from taking cold.
Il don't know anything about the statis-
tics, but I'll bet that there is much less
pneumonia in the country than i'm the city
and this is because the countryman in win
ter wears boots and keeps his legs protected
1 know that shoes now commonly worn
in the country as well as in the city, but
only for ordinary wear. For wet work of
any kind and for winter, the countryman
still wears boots
But L said, most of the people in the
city nowadays wear shoes summer and win
ter. the year round. and l think they suf-
fer in winter from wearing them.
Look at the men sitting on either side
in street car. Here is one man knocking
his n feet together to get his toes warm
Very likely above the tops Of his shoes his
ankles are protected from the cold only by
the thickness of his socks His feet are
cold, of course, and thus unprotected he is
more liable to catch cold.
Possibly there may be sitting next to
him man, outdoor worker, wearing
boots, and he with his ankles and legs
partly. at least, protected by the bootlegs,
is comfortable.
THE city man whom you find OCCASION
ally now wearing boots may have inside
employment, but If he does ne will not wear
called an old-fashioned man, and this class
insists on having perfect and neat-fitting
boot
THEIR FEET LOOK WELL.
you will find for the most part that
men who wear boots have very pretty and
well-formed feet, and there is nothing that
will show them off TO a better advantage
than a nice-fitting boot for this they will
pay good price as there are few shoe
makers who are doing this kind of work at
the present time.
Ihese men who perSistently wear boots
may be men of years. but still be far from
antique. They have lived in the day when
everybody wore boots. and, knowing well
the advantage, still wear them, and so pre-
serve health and comfort
Il don't suppose that the city man will ever
go back to wearing boots. but | think it
would be good thing for everyone to wear
them in the winter with his trousers tucked
in the tops of them. There are, | suppose
four thousand remedies for colds bat the
best of all preventives is a good pair of
boots and III venture TO say that every
physician in town viii bear me out fin this
"A well-known physician here in the city
who died some time ago, always wore boots
during the cold weather. His throat was
affected. and for him 10 catch cold meant
long Illness, and to keep from IL he al
WAYS wore good hieh nair of boots
which he contended protected him thor
oughly from the cold