Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — Your Foot Gear. [ARTICLE]

Your Foot Gear.

Shoes are, in every part, machine made. It is said by scientific authority that there is no department of human industry in which machinery and the subdivision of labor hnve been brought to greater perfection than in the manufacture of shoes. In the great shoe factories, thero are women employed whose business the year round is to sew one seam and one only. Eveu the metal eyolets are placed in position and clamped by a mechanical device. Many schemes have been devised for a universal language, of which “Volapuk” is among the latest. About the beginning of this century an enthusiast proposed a universal language of which the numerals should represent the sounds. The Bushmen, or low-grade Hottentots, on the plains of South Africa, have a language which has been proved by Gamier to be a close approximation to that of the higher apes. It consists of hissing, clicking and grunting sounds.