Evening star., 1925-02-13

f, for his shoes and feet therein. 1T
| wasn't the grocery list, because
have that right here in my pocket,
and it can't be the book 1 meant to
| take down to the office, because
took that yesterday. and 1t can't be
| that bank book, because / decided
not to go the bank today, after ALL
He looks down at his feet. mutter-
| ing to himself, when the light dawns.
| A half-witted man, with a big nose.
who hasn't sense enough to come In
out of the rain, looks at him in q
plying manner. A girl, who is a
moron, and never will be able to
| earn one-hundr edith as much money
! in her whole life as the rubberless
! man can earn in a year, says to her
self, Nut"
So he has forgotten his rubbers
Well, nothing to do now but go on,
ing rubbers steadily brings a man
to just that pretty pass where the
omission of the gums unsettles him
terribly.
He may have been in France, where
water and mud were part and parcel
of his days and nights. He thought
then, as many a man did, that hence
forth nothing could upset him. But
he reckoned without the effects of
civilization.
Now he is worrying over forgetting
his overshoes.
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Wearing rubbers with fervor soon
puts u "white-co man" into a po-
sition where he feels absolutely un-
dressed without them. He dreams
about them. 1t used to be the old
stock dream about being out In a
public street in his niKhtgown.
Now he dreams of being caught at
banquet without his rubbers on.
He feels terribly ashamed as the
well bred hostess calls the attention
OF the equally well bred guests to
the fact that he is utterly nude of
overshoes.
"Ha. har' shrek the guests, while
the charming hostess. in the best
etiquette book advertise ments style,
gracefully grins at her guests EN-
barrassment.
/ know a man, a rubber wearer,
who had q bad FIVE minutes on a
street car the other morning. 1t was
bad, sloppy morning, when slush and
water stood three inches deep in the
street and half foot or more in the
cutters.
No normal man would have ventured
out on such a morning without his
overshoes Even the cats would have
worn them that morning, if forced to.
gladly submitting TO the indignity of
becoming real Puss- in Boots
Yet this soft-treadle expert, sitting
peacefully on his street car. suddenly
felt sinkening sensation, as he
watched the people slop along outside
Blamed II ! didn't forget to put my
rubbers on this morning.. he COM
miserated with himself. Now how on
earth could 1 have been such a fool
as that. after wearing the darn things
for a month!
Here l wore them last week, when
the only need had for them was in
that stretch of four blocks in my
netghborhood, which Is not as built
up as II Is going to be. And now to-
day, when a man needs rubbers IL
ever he did. here I have gone off
without mine"'
The man cussed himself for three
blocks, called himself various kinds
of meteorological fool, pictured him
self with wet feet and a severe cold.
Then he looked down at his feet,
and discovered he had his rubbers on,
after all. Without any stretch of the
English language, this was what you
might call a rubber nightmare.
Overshoes, despite the fact that they
are considerable of a nuisance, cer-
tainly are shoe savers. The person
who consistently wears them will
double the life of his shoes, and keep
them more comfortable all the time
than the hardy gentleman who re-
fuses to suffer them. going around
with wet, stiff shoes.
There Is a man in this town who
has had only four pairs Of shoes In
IL years, and he attributes it all
to wearing rubbers