| Show A FEW WORDS ABOUT SHOES it appears from history that the jews ion long 9 before tire tho christian era wore shoes made of leather and wood those of their soldiers were sometimes formed out of brass or iron tile the egyptians wore a kind of shoe made of the papyrus the indians the chinese and other nations wore shoes made of silk rushes linen wood or the bark of cices tices iron brass braes or of gold and silver and luxury lias has sometimes covered them with precious stones the greeks and romans wore shoes of leather the grecian shoes generally reached to tile the middle of the log leg the romans used two kinds of shoes the cal ceus of the shape of our shoes and the solea or slipper which covered only the sole of the foot arid and was fastened with leather thongs the was worn with tile the toga when a person went abroad and slippers were put on during a journey and at feasts black shoes were worn by persons of ordinary rank and white ones by women red shoes were put on by the chief magistrates of rome on days of ceremony |
