Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 24, DeMotte, Jasper County, 5 January 1933 — Neck Yokes and Sabots [ARTICLE]

Neck Yokes and Sabots

Holland is a very old country, and Is an odd admixture off ancient and modern. In the town of Waardenborg, for instance, the inhabitants still depend upon the community pump for their supply of water. The housewife carries a pair of wooden shoes, which mark her as a true daughter of the Netherlands. The neck yoke as an aid to carrying burdens is an instrument that goes back into antiquity for its beginning. Many primitive people of the East'lndies use the neck yoke in transporting weights. In China the neck yoke has developed into a. long bamboo pole that is balanced on the shoulders and tp the ends of which burdens of equat/wdght are attached.