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Show Chance to Swat Old H. C. L.; Wear Wooden Shoes, Says j Enterprising Windy City Man j Chicago Tribune Special Service. ipilIICAGO, July 15 Will the strollers along Michigan boulevard soon be pricking their ears to listen to the clatter-clatter of wooden shoes as they clump down the walk on daintily arched feet? By the way, does one get splinters splin-ters in one s feet from wooden shoes? Chicago speculation on the subject began be-gan today, when Weldon I Tarrlson, New York shoo manufacturer, predicted the price of shoes would go to f2l). Other prophets have predicted $35 for a pair of shoes by next spring. To revert, will the use of wooden shoes niean cheapness and durability? "The wooden shoes will lie popular in the future." said a wooden shoe dealer here. "I now sell from -joon to 50HO pairs a year. Almost all brewery, dyers and factory help in ice cream manufactories wear them for warmth. Then, too. fa tlicrs often buy them for their children chil-dren to wear after school." It seems at least one problem in the 1 high cost of living has been solved. Z j rpHJC wooden shoe that encases the pedal members' of the extravagant sex -cost but ll.U.i a pair. They are cheap, warm and could be tainted to match everv gown of milady. The innovation of the wooden shoe will mean loss of tho staring advertisements adver-tisements to correct tender feet, which are born of leather shoes, says the wooden shoe merchant. But there is a fly in the ointment. Sleazv silk stockings and the stocking-less stocking-less fad do not go hand in hand with the wooden boot. In fact, it is necessary to wear t wo pairs of stockings to keep the instep from being rubbed by the carved wood. IN Paris it is not an uncommon sight to sec a sleek commissioner or banker walking to church in wooden shoes. So if the boulevard takes to them, there will be a broad grin on fond hubby's face. Who wouldn't grin with shot.s but $1.25 a pair? Leather men explain the high prices as due to lack of ocean tonnage to transport millions of hides now rotting in Russia and South America. i |