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Show COWHIDE BOOTS OUT? OF DATE. Once Worn "by Politicians, and Ever; by New England Clergy. Tho sturdy boot of cowhide, tho pride nnd, comfort of our New England grandfathers, Is disappearing from shop and store, It may still bo seen here and thero upon tho farm. but it has no placo npon the polished parlor. floor nor in tho trolley or cab of the city. Tho boot camo to theso rocXy New England shores with tho pilgrims. It broko tho brush of the virgin forest for hardy pioneers and It trod down tho seod of many a harvest upon tho homesteads. jH Glover's men of Marblehead marched off to follow Washington In '7C wearing high flshlnu boots, shiny with oil from the cod and fait from tho spray of tho sea. WhltUcr, the Quaker poet, hammered upon thick boot soles to tho measures of his rhymes, and Henry Wilson, the "Natlck cobbler,'' pondered on question of state as ho pulled his good waxed ends taut and dreamed of futuro greatness. "Walt Whitman tucked his trousers legs in-side in-side his hlsh boots and wont out nnd mado frlonds with tho boatman and clam-diggcn. Politicians donned boota that betolcencd toll at election time, Just as the oftlce-uockcr of today puts on a glad emtio and puts out his glad hand A clorgyman of high famo nttrib-uteri nttrib-uteri early successes to hla cowhide boots, IHH which ho woro In hl3 pulpit so that his con-grcgatlon con-grcgatlon would feel that ho was ona of them. HBV Tho schoolboy of times gone by dreamed of HBb tho shiny, red-topped copper-toed shoes that HBb ho would find In his stocking Christmas morn- Bb Ing, and the Harvard boy felt himself a man Bb lndocd when ho could go to the cordwalner and havo a pair of boots molded to his feet Bb and legs. Of course, he might break tho boot-Jack boot-Jack yanking thorn off, -but that would "bo in-Jury in-Jury to tho senseless bootjack, not harm to his vanity. Everett Dunbar, who still makes boots by hand down In Lynn, has tho wcddln? boots of HBV a now prominent Lynncr, worn twentv-nvo years ago. The I.jnner wore them only to his wedding-, thou eh ho paid J1S for them. Ho wouldn't dare to wear thorn today, though the" aro n splendid spcclmon of lKxK-making', for they havo a comfortable too and crimp tops, and ar? made of cowhldo, all of which aro decidedly out of fashion for full aveulns drew today. A fow grandfather of today ttlll call for their high boots, considering them a sovereign, prevontlyo of "rheum&tla. pneumony and oth- IHB er pesky Ills." especially If worn with tho trousors legs lucked Into the boot tops, 90 that tho cold and dampness cannot creep beneath, the clothlntc and reach the body. Even from rough mining camps and tho trail and ranch of tho AVest tho boot is dlsap-pearinr. dlsap-pearinr. Collego boys struck Western camps tHH with heodB full of Ideas und fct In laced high ankle boots, like tho storm boots seen in Eos-tan Eos-tan today. "Dudes In yaller boo!s." sniffed the veteran miners, but It wasn't lonp before tho veterans thomiolves found tho anuff-flttlns laced hlth boots of much Valuo in Fupporting tho ankles and in keeping out stoms. And hunters and cowboys and tauohmen learned the same thlnff too. Eo tho sturdy boot of cowhldo la i-osalnc; and civilization Is marching onward In lighter and, moro scientific footwear Boston Globe. HBV |
