Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — If Your Shoes are Wet. [ARTICLE]

If Your Shoes are Wet.

When you come home with wet feet, says the Ladies’ Homo Journal, don’t throw aside your boots to get hard and mouldy. Stand them up, put them in shape, and then fill them with oats, such as tliey feed to horses. This will, in a few hours, draw al the moisture out of the leather, and leaving it soft and pliable. The oats can be used again and again. This is a reliq of the clays when no railroads existed, and traveling was (tom under difficulties, and in weather the present generation has no conception of.