Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1916 — Wooden Shoes May Come Back Into Use as Result of War [ARTICLE]

Wooden Shoes May Come Back Into Use as Result of War

Whnt if all the poor of Europe should be driven to wearing wooden shoes —or clogs, as they are called in England? Leather is becoming so scarce that it is going up to famine prices and may soon become a luxury which only the rich can afford. Thb wooden shoe has been going out of use with the spread of prosperity downwards and with the great increase of factory-made shoes, but it may come into its own again if war wages should go down before war prices, as is too often the case.

The clog is a heavy clumsy contrivance. held on the feet with a narrow strap of leather over the foot, and is usually worn over bare feet. It is most common in Lancashire, England, and In Holland. Many poor people wear clogs over their shoes to protect them from mud, and go clattering along the stone-paved streets with much racket dropping the clogs as an American woman drops her overshoes oo entering a house. Some persons who never wear shoes on weekdays

honor Sunday by wearing them to church, but keep them unsoiled with clogs, which are left in the porch when they enter. —Portland Oregonian.