Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — Persian Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Persian Shoes.

The Persians have shoes made of wood and richly inlaid which are really little raised platforms with a strap across the front for the toes to pass through. A pair of these are often elevated as much as a foot from the ground, and are veritable stilts. There is nothing which this age, from whichever standpoint we survey it, needs more, physically, intellectually and morally, than thorough ventilation.