The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-04-16
Shoes Through the Ages
Little Change in 100000 Years

ONQUERIG this globe measuring and weighing the starr
- stands earth surface q sqasss
inches oneha square foot On that Sinai alea 49, "sshs
rests in repose and in swift running.
His shoes are man, protection he travels over re rough
earth u, ..,v.-y
~ tha Baaole describes savage ladies Of Patagonia with
strange ideas They nothing In the way q 80
would allow no stranger them until they had
na;ted their faces and arranged their hair Then they came
proudly from their huts-otherwise unclotned ~
Carlyle in his "Sartor Resartus says: among 49,
people we find painting and attoong prior e clothes
The first spiritual want barbarous man decoratloI
happy days the Garden Of Eden were no-ciOsnes
period until the fatal apple eaten
Clothing began with simple costume made q ng 49,
and went on increasing until NOBLE women MOrS ~ 80.
room the hats and peasant women ~ Holland snG Musala
many ten heavy skirts to spread out tner np
1nnumerable were the kinds Of clothing Carlyle mentions
oIes abs chalamvdes togas Chinese silks Afghan shaw
runhose brooches, Celtic phlbegs hussar cOak
Vandye ppe rufus farhingales are brought VV1oy DelOs
But in the nnuerable volumes clothes too little attention
has been paid SHOES the FOUNDATION q CO'nng ~
Of man career on earth.
OF all the bodys clothing shoes most important Insy
keep spine good condition. holding the Dooy - cO1s0
Made II the right materials they protect the feet that bear
the weight Of their and endure colo ana ne neas 80
Here and there We get glimpse Of the important part that
When NAPOLEON III whom Bismarck admirably described
As the great urecognzed IN capacity sent out his army y
1870 without good shoes their doom was sealeC'
ho = ono a the points had to Be tied at 81 the
wear That FASHION Laws could nos SOP
and dainty ded cutaway Csscross shoes q ne modern
woman Of fashion. 4. .
science making is only just being deveiOped
Il /. .afe ID saw that shoes came FIRST human clothing
orr savage ancestors hundred thousand years ag neea1
SHOES before they thought Of any other garment Pursuing
or fleeing from the enemy brute rough stones
sticks thorn and cactus pierced the naked iee Long
anything else soon as men nad acnlsVsu -
ink mower +#
The first shoe was piece Of the hide Of some animal
tied around the foot at the ankle
And recently that has still been the main romance u
piece Of animal hide arranged more q 81
70 g as oot f from R ground Such h
tbeen mems foot gear-s<lns Of animals
Great ingenuity has been shown . e Il 'front.' m
to the length Of an ell laced the side with tags even
wooden shoes have their eOng noses some also cap
But until lately little attention has been paid 70 scientific
shoe manufacture selection Of materials better e.
expensive longer wearing Men have still chung to mlon
Device piece of animal hide fastened around tne
feet. .
shoes better shoes in wearing quality and that At the same
time will not SLIP. I'D
prevent being His horse his OK did well On
natural shoes of horn that grew out they wore away
the horse put to work hard slippery
must be protected against unnatural conditions with shoes
iron protecting the hard hoof.
Men in their clothing have relied on things that nature
offered. -r.< i.
s'The bark of vegetables the entrais of s the
hides Of oxen or seals, the tet OF 1urreo peasts'
Now chemists other scientists studying combinations
of substances attack the problems of long wear
nonsppng natural support and anatomical adapanon Men
at last getting away from the old idea kill the ANIMAL
skin it, wrap the skin around your feet"
But described by Swift as "a forked straddng ANNA
with handy legs took nearly million years to realize tnas
he could things better than nature does the make Tor
material better than the skin of horse or CALI coC
better those squeezed from the cochinea insect 1U
insects to pound of dye, the Mediterranean molusk
Fortunately have plenty of time The earth wi las
least hundred million years longer And already men are 81
work on the problems of BETTER EVERYTHING from hats
to shoes.