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Show Vogue of the Army Shoe. When the Crusaders returned home they brought back the Arabian horse. When Pizarro returned from Peru he brought back the potato. When our militiamen returned from the Mexican border they brought back the army shoe. The horse and the potato proved to be worth more to the world than all the country the soldiers set out to conquer. The shoe, if we have the wit to u6e it, will be worth more to America than all the wealth of the Montezumas. For lack of a sensible, standard shoe we are a nation of cripples, and the mobilization mobiliza-tion has discovered to us this fact and that shoe. The army medical corps found that 80 per cent of the state guards were limping along in misfit footwear, w-hile 70 per cent had twisted and jammed feet, malformed' by civilian shoes. On the other hand, 75'per cent of the regular regu-lar army men whose feet had been clad for a time in army shoes had normal feet. These traveled all day on jovful soles, while the militiamen early fell by the wayside in blistered platoons. The foot surgeons of the medical corps declare de-clare that 90 per cent of American civilians civil-ians are wearing shoes that do not fit. Now there is no need of this senseless sense-less abuse of the human foot. The normal foot is the same today that it was 5000 years ago. And the foot of the baby born 5000 years hence will doubtless doubt-less be as near like your baby's foot as two peas in a pod. If a 'shoe of normal shape and a simple rule for fitting fit-ting it have been found, why need any human foot be injured for its clothing? Why need styles change? Why swing from the toothpick toe to the broad box toe and back again endlessly for the poor sake of style? And why trust the fitting of your footwear to mere chance and fancy? With the return of our militiamen has sprung up a home demand for the army shoe. Many of these men say thev never before knew foot comfort. The shoe is as light and handsome as one need wish; and, being of normal shape, should be fit and, therefore, stylish every ev-ery day of the year. The United States army shoe is made in ninety different shapes and sizes, aud its measurements, though easily made, are as accurate as those of an optician. Any foot in America can be exactly fitted by this measurement and this shoe. In our handling of the Mexican problem some hnUU that we have not saved our faces, but if we are wise we may yet save our feet. Minneapolis Journal. |