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Show WOODEN SHOES IN KENTUCKY. Dutch Settlers Around Louisville Import Im-port 200 Pairs of Them. Tho very mention of the idea that wooden shoes are worn in and around Louisville seems a bit preposterous to the modern citizenship of this section, sec-tion, but they must be worn hereabouts here-abouts for they aro shipped here. Two hundred pairs of these unique specimens of footwear passed through the Louisville port yesterday. They, came directly from Rotterdam, consigned con-signed to a local firm. The Hollanders are famous for making and wearing wooden shoes and never lose their desire for wearing wear-ing them, even when they como to this country. Scattered around in this section there is a pretty good sprinkle of these old-time Dutch, and they must have their wooden shoes. The shoes received yesterday will be disposed of to these foreign-horn Dutch. Tho shoes are not only unique in their make, but are extremely light. They aro worn mostly during tho winter and In extreme wet weather. They aro made of ono piece of wood and there .is no such thing as leak in them. There has been but slight change In their make for centuries. cen-turies. Louisville Courier-Journal. o |