Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1908 — KEEPS THE SHOES IN SHAPE. [ARTICLE]

KEEPS THE SHOES IN SHAPE.

fn£tw. Man ttti &Uii£ • New Wrinkle. ™ A pale clerk departed with a large paper bag .of oats aider his ana. . i j rHnv 1 ! BEjd th<| ftedatorg mw. "hf don’Jt eat ’em for biyakfaat food. He uses ’em for boot-tyees.“ •'Oats! for boot-treeißf” - - •, “Sure. Every nighty as soon gs he gets home, he takes off his wet and muddy boots, laces 'em up, and fills ’em with oats. What happens? The onto, like paper, absorb all the moisture out of the leather and swells accordin’, pLumpin’ the boots out splendid, restorin’ ’em to their original -shape, takin’ every wrinklo away. r , “So, In the mornin’, the man empties his oats back into the bag, and, nq matter how slushy yesterday's walkin’ had been, he now puts on a pair of perfectly dry, new-lookin' boots. —;—L—'■ V—— “Yes, I do quite a city trade in oats/’ ended the feed man. “Clerks and typists* male and female, all auch as can’t, afford made-to-order trees — they, cost, yon know, ten dollars , a p^ir —are Teamin’ to use oat lnstid. Shall I put you up a pair in this here bag? Five cents is all.”