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Show -Wooden SHOES and AUTOMOBILES ; found that the result was very satisfactory when worn with the usual apron. The shoes got soaked through in time, of course; but by keeping two. paira in use for each workman one to wear and one to dry no trouble waa had. But, during the war, nobody in either Holland Hol-land or France or anywhere else in Europe could imagine what Uncle Sam wanted with so many wooden shoe. Nobody guessed thst they were "to wash autos in." AT first thought there seems to be no relation rela-tion between wooden ahoes and automobiles. automo-biles. But one never can tell these dsys. Wooden shoes play an Important part in auto building; indeed they probably reduced the cost of autoa by six and three-tenthe cents each if figured out by an efficiency expert, according to an estimate of The Scientific American. Automobile chassis have to be waahed after they are built and before they are taken to the big room where the bodies are put in P ace ; for after that all ahlutione have to be administered very carefully. For this all-over bath soft soap is used paila of it-and the water ia applied with a hose. ' . . . v At first the auto companies provided nign rubber boots for the men who did the work; but they soon found that aoap and rubber did not agree, and that the bill for rubber boota was quite an item. And when the war came on. and the price of rubber soared, indeed, it became quite appalling. t . a So some bright young man got a lot of wooden wood-en sabota brought from Holland or somewhere for actors and tried them out The workmen stuffed paper tightly in around their feet and encircled en-circled their legs with piecee of old. slickers and |