Show French Shepherds Use Stilts lo to Advantage Walking on stilts ia is a fad that does not die le with JUI the n ages es On the tomb ot of one cue of ot the ol oldest est Pharaohs Is a crude has bas relief depicting a court pro procession The procession Is led by a h trumpeter who Is perched 1 on high sri stills lis lise e cry nation In fact has lias had Its pert expert stilt walkers In China Japan the fid fad is with youths sonic some of or whom are arc so a adept ept In this mo mode e of ot walking tint that they require no supports ts or uprights to steady y them In southern France stilts are more than fads There they arc are used al almost almost almost most continuously b by the shepherds who ho Base e to keep leep watch over oer large foci s of sheep hep is as well ell as to pass through bogs The stilts are usually from six sic to eIght feet high bigli nn and are stripped tightly to the I 1 aces nee Both Loth oth men and m women in m that part ot of the country are arc expel expect t stilt v w 11 In their hands bands they hold hoHl a long Ion stick tiel or cine cane as a n support t So are these people to the stilts tint that steep have ha been I known to knit socks s while walking wl l mg on themA them A frequent pastime of these people are stilt races an and not a passes without a stilt contest of some come sort One contest recently was ryas won by a boy and a girl each fourteen years old The Zhe he third to come In was a shepherd whose hoce age was about SC seventy enty |