Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Transparent Shoes. [ARTICLE]

Transparent Shoes.

They are always inventing something wfcartlmg in France. The latest evo’ution el the Parisian brain is trans at - ent leather, which has lately been perfected and put on the market. The information coses that the process of letting light through the hide of an ox does not unfit it for use as foot-gear, and now it may reasonably be expected that the new material will soon appear ae the latest fad of fashion. Ju t think of transparent shoes. Thechirop jdfofo will have a rich harvest. The worried shoe-store clerks can fit the feet of their lady customers with the sixes that they wear, and not the sizes that they want. Misfits will show as plainly through the new shoes as a troublesome corn. The owner of a reailv pretty foot can take a certain pride in her shoes or her slippers, provide i that somebody comes forward and devises a style of hosiery that is also irmsMreat.