Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-15
Shoes

any record, and samples of sandals
from Egyptian mummies are GER
tainly preserved in public collec-
tions. The sandal was the early
shoe worn by the Greeks, in ancient
times. They had boots, laced up
high and worn by huntsmen.
Sandals were worn by the early
Romans. They were the every day
wear Of patricians. These sandals
were made of black leather, while
the senators, the law-making body,
wore red leather sandals.
Long boots reaching near the knee
were worn by hunters and TRACE
dams in luxurious old Rome.
Sandals and slippers continue to
be the footwear of Oriental COM
munities.
Towards the end of the fourteenth
century long-pointed toes were placed
on the shoes worn by the high born,
but half boots became the style Of
Anglo-Saxons and Anglo-Normans.
When Charles I was king,
he that lost his head, a boot with
wide tops and spurs became the
mode. When Charles II succeeded
Cromwell, the high French boot
came along.
Jockeys and fox hunters were very
fond of what was called jackboots
and they have remained with that
class of horsemen ever since.
There was a .Hessian boot, as I re-
member, also the Wellington boot,
after the Battle of Waterloo, and
also the Butcher boot, from another
Well-knoWn warrior. We had boots
for men and slippers for women up
to the Civil war.
Not long after the Appomatox
| surrender, when times were hard
and money scarce my spouse treat
ed himself to a pair of nice high
top boots. He had a snapely foot,
and really took much pleasure in
the new boots. He had a new suit
of grey wool woven at home. and
made by town tailor, and he felt
quite dressed up in his toggery.
Along came a burglar-and rob-
bed him of the entire outfit, and
we have always believed we were
in a manner chloroformed-tom make
an easy time for the night providers.
They went through the neighbour
| hood and made a cleanup job, about
the same time. 1t was a "blue
time" with him, when he woke
next morning to find he w"s minus
suspenders-and boots,-and
! had to rake out the old garments
and worn shoes, that were nearly
laid aside. .... ...
Boots were very fashionable with
men-and women began to wear
bootees, and hiGh heels about the
same time. The craze for boots
vanished, however, and only the
military are prolonging the wear
ing of boots since the early 70's.
One of the Pilgrim Tiers was
said to be a shoamaker-and shoe
makers in my early life were: equal
" common with blacksmiths who
shod the horses and tailors in every
town who cut ut all the mems
coats and vests when they did not
do the sewing.
The shoe trade in later. day has
been largely monopolized by the
New England states, but the shoe
Industries is such a mammoth one
that all sections are getting interest
ed. During the World War the
price of shoes went "sISv high" Eff
! teen dollars for a dreSS-up pair of
WOmen's shoes was nothing out of
the common. saw the approach
of the sky-high price, and laid in
enough cheaper shoes to pull me
through. During the Civil War
the shoe problem was a fine one.
L learned to make house shoes with
scraps of heavy wool jeans. The
shoemaker would cut out the soles
for me and pierce holes to sew on
the tops. They answered the pur-
pose very well. l was glad to be
! able to do it. ..,
/ Tho TnF
Diary 49,
| For the honor of the sex and the
individual expectation of this hap
less woman, 1 am glad the Bolshe-
Wiki did not destroy the diary Of the
late czarina of Russia. $780,
1t is now being transcribed into
American papers, where we all can
read it. and feel truly sorry for her
She shows herself, not a German
sympathizer, and not a despiser Of
her husband, but a devoted mother
and loyal to her weak husband,
Nicholas, the End.
She was truly loyal to Russia, and
frantically trying to preserve the
| succession to her son as the next
car of Russia. She was cruelty
commented upon as the blind fol-
lower of RasDutin, who seems to
have been the girl genius of both
Nicholas and AliX. She thought she
had a virulent emmy in her hus-
bands uncle, who was commander
in-chief of the Russian military
forces.
She was Historically happy when
the car deposed him from his high
position. With this antagonism in
the royal family, it is plainly evil
dent that the czarina was having a
hard time with her "in-laws."
She tells it all in her diary.
Instead of being the "affinity" of
the monk Rasputin, she always calls
him in writing to her husband, "our
friend" That Rasputin was a fraud
goes without saying, but she and
her husband thought he was honest
in his religious views and counsel.
and they were so hemmed in by their
! high position that they had bitter
! enemies all about them.
When Alice, as she was called in
/ Queen Victoria's palace, was a girl
! she spent much of her time in Eng
land. Her mother married a Ger
man prince, and it was expected the
daughter would like her fathers
! people. AS Queen Victoria's grand
j daughter, she had the best that was
in reach, and after her mother died
+ she spent much of her time in Eng
land. The Russians were greatly in
+ censed against Germany when the
/ World war broke out; also against
England after she and. Car Nicholas
were deposed and exiIed to Siberia.
From a lofty height they went to
the bottom Of defeat and despair.
All that had occurred was blamed on
her. With four grown daughters,
she had natural desire to hold to