Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1917 — MEN’S SHOES NOT BEAUTIFUL [ARTICLE]

MEN’S SHOES NOT BEAUTIFUL

Only the th| Species" , 4 .Seems to Pay. IflteqWtl? Attend 's§ tion to the Footgear. __ Xp impassioned 6ommercial person yatse* this -searching question, 4n large letters and quite Regardless of expense: “Why Shouldn’t Shoes Be Beautifulr Well, Why not? One trouble Is that they are made from jbe pickled hide* of deceased" animals

and get rather closely trimmed in the factories. If the original fur was left on in all .its bright meadow tints ot roan, bay and piebald, to match the tweeds that business men wear in magazine stories, the Issue of beauty would take care of itself as far as most male- footgear is_ concerned, and the. old injunction. your beatfoot foremost would then have a more liberal significance. Shoes also have a lot to stand for: they are poked and scuffled into all manner of places; they enjoy no human association or

attention after leaving the shop save from the lowlier sons of Africa and the Mediterranean.’’ Only in football season does the male boot get any exalted place in the eye and prints. Woman, in her role as emancipator and innovator, has been giving the once humble'shoe its due place frr the sun these last few years, but man -still lags. So economics, sociology and philosophy may collaborate to find reasons, but, we suspect, the reaJ answer to 'that question Is “feet”Collier's Weekly. < .<■*>