Show Tho Cowboys High Heels A correspondent who signs himself D W II writes entertainingly as follows In one of the articles In the Nosegay column reference la I made to the high heels on the boots of the Texas Tex-as cowpunchers and vanity Is given as the reason of the high heel This Is somewhat of a mistake No doubt sanity san-ity figures in It for the writer has been witness to the fat seeing heels so high that they were braced with small Iron rods on the Inside But to return to the real use of the high heelfor It has a use We all know the broncho some of us by reputation and others by experience ex-perience and know he Is to say tho least a trifle unreliable On the saddles used in the West the small light stirrup stir-rup of iron Is not used In Its place is the large wooden stirrup similar to the one used In tho cavalry but mostly without the leather guard over the front and it is here where the high heel plays Its part The wooden stirrup is so large that an ordinary shoe as worn would slip through and It does not take much Imagination to picture what would happen hap-pen if at this time the rider should be thrown from the saddle and one foot be caught in the stirrup With the high heel this Is Impossible for the foot cannot can-not go all the way through So vanity Is not the whole reason for the cowpunchers cow-punchers high heel Philadelphia Record Rec-ord |