The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-15
All World HELPS
Make Shoe

When you look at a shoe you see
the four corners OF the globe pulled
together in it.
Begin with the bottom or sole, made
from the hide Of a Texas steer tanned
in oak from Pennsylvania forests.
The heel is of South American dry
,, hide, tanned in hemlock bark.
In the ease of Il kidskin shoe the
Namp is mace OF a goat from Brazil
1t is tanned With chrome from New
Caledonia, is BACKED with logWood
from Jamaica, and glazed with glass
from Austria.
| The top is Of a kdskn tanned in
Nigeria, brought to the United States.
/ retained and finished. The tongue
is of sheep leather. Tho sheep grew
! in Argentina. The leather Innings are
OF skins of sheep that grew in Aus:
! trala. The skins are tanned in SUI
mac from Sicily Some of the leather
| is treated with fat liquor an emul-
sion made of cod liver oil from Lab
rador and acids from one of the new
| American chemical laboratories.
| Yet only 4 few of the things that
/
have been mentioned. lie also uses
in his mystery of tanning, "divi- divi''
from the East Indies, NaloniA from
algaroblla from the land knows where ,
salt from Michigan, sawdust from
Maine mills, egg yolll from Russia,
! blood from the Chicago StockSards
, and degras from France.
| I thnrp-s, fol l,,
from an Eskimo to a Patagonian, or
| from a Hottentot to O. Korean, who
! has a hide or skin to sell he can get
his price for il. il he will show it to
a Yankee tanner. for the Yankee tan
| ner is buying pclts everywhere.
| The leather of which the shoe is
made is fastened together with q
thread OF Irish linen or Georgia cot
| ton. The laclngS are Of Egyptian or
| long fibre Sea Island cotton. tough
| and strong. The buttons are of bone.
pearl or paper, American or European.
| The eyects are of brass. coated with
celuloid. The brass comes from
| munition factories, when they are will
| ing to part with any. The cclluloid
comes from the sunDowder factories
The tacks are made by the millions
| III NidSStCHuSetlS. iitt Is True VI tIe
heel nails, and of the shanks in the
arches of the shoe. If a person pre-
fers wood pegs, that won't scratch
hardwood floors, in the heels of his
| shoes. he may get them at a New
| Hampshire shop.
The welt may be of sigskin The
pig was killed in Packingtown and his
pelt tanned in Peabody. His bristles
trx~.
cleaning the shoes. Between the out
sole and the insole of the shoe is the
filler" a composition of rubber made
from Ceylon cut with naptha ano
mixed with ground cork from Portu.
gal.
The insole. perhaps, is of good
| bark tanned leather. But it may bt
of fibre. coated with sheet of leath-
err. The box toe may also be of leath-
er. but more likely it is of felt. filled
| with shellac, to make 1t stiff. Like.
| wise the counter may be of leather
| But more likely 1t is of leatherboard
or cclluloid, or of scraps of leather
pasted together with flour paste and
compressed
| Yet a few more things are used in
the making of a shoe. The last, over
which the shoe is fashioned, is of ma
pie from Michigan. The patterns. by
which the uppers are cut, are of pa
: per board made from old newspapers.
They arc bound with brass. Ths
brass is stripped from them. aftel
they become obsolete, and II is uset
!. for brazing the steel dies with which
|. leather Is cut for several parts OF tht
! shoe. The sbrazing Is done In an cleo