Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — ENGLISH USE WOODEN SHOES [ARTICLE]

ENGLISH USE WOODEN SHOES

The Sabot May Come Into Favor in This Country, Too, It Is Predicted. It is not Impossible, as time goes on, that the quotations of the leather market will take second place to those of substitutes for leather, since the increase of such materials Is assuming large proportions. At present the substitutes are combinations of staple jnaterials and by-products, both of which are produced by certain established industries; but more and more the substitute material will become an article of com merce. hence a “market” may result, says the Boston Transcript. It is not assured, even with an increasing use of leather substitutes, that the adoption of “clogs” of wood would not be desirable; the same to be used in both city and country. England is making use of them and many London children are wearing them to and from school, and it has been suggested that the factory workers in Lancashire and Yorkshire might adopt them with advantage. The wooden “sabot” is by no means going out of fashion in England and in Europe, and it is by no’means improbable that an increased use of those solid shoes may continue after the war. The wooden shoe or sabot would be widely used in this country to the comfort of many, rnd the extension of the service of leather or substitute boots. The many chores that the householder Is obliged to do about a suburban or country home necessitate a heavy kind of shoe, and the sabot where tested has proved its worth.