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linen or very cr ronK rong cotton The others othor are of fIr mixed liters liber that hold their color Many persons prefer the tho ten less tumble durable not only because It boUts Its Itis II color but because heaU being of ot u a 1 leos IMM 1 hunt hUril liber It IL stays KJaY tied better than the theother theother other A few rw of ot the thi millions of It shoe shoestrings strings wearers know how to tie lie A how knot that wont come conic untied The method can call be explained without a II diagram Instead of or tucking the how over be lie before tore fore oro drawing the till knot II hi luck It twice t A fiddle string md tIled for tor torn forn n a hoe Khoe atm laro hwo would not hot rome come untied If It the th knot were made nAda In that way This Thill knot can ean be untied III In the same wa way a ns as fl the other by h pulling at tho the nils Thip hooks above tho the eyelets were n a nor very sory or profitable Invention hut but not nol for tor forthe the tho Inventor the shoe ishoo manufacturer or the consumer The tory story of or that I mention lm huRl hu been hoen printed many times if It It II wore not fairly n It would have been contradicted The Thu story atory lies has It II that thaI thin hook was wa by ly n a 1 man somewhere In the AI and that the Idea was uns sold for tor forn n It song to a traveling II who happened to come along Various ver of ot tho the stor story gio 1110 tho amount I 1411 n R ii from rO to lift The story says ay that tile the patented tho the dovico mid and that hunt for tor a n fow tew ow years Mt after Ift tr I his IB Introduction and an 1 the th patent ran out tho the proUt from It was as about I a ear car The Invention WM waa for tor manufacturers manufacturer of ot shoes hos because all had to me ule It none could charge more mar martor for tor their hoea with Ith It U than without It find and It did not Increase tho the demand for tor shoes hos It H added to the Ihn cost oost of or their output the mount amount of or the royalties and It brought no return I A man patented a hook to be he used 1 I n as the last Isit at the tho th top of ot the tho shoe Aha which did away awn with the tho knot In tho the j shoestring It H WILl like the tho jam cleat for tor fastening small lines nn on sailing 1111 In II arid and the tho string would Id never n er slip but manufacturers manufacture would not adopt It H They paid laid that If it one olle used UI It II all nil would have hae to use UIO It and It Would add a Ii little to 10 the rn cost COlt t of or every pair of ot shoes hOM with no return The TIll hook honk that wai IM adopted waa IM un tin unprofitable unI profitable for tor the consumer because hi shoestrings worn wore out faster after I It II was waR Introduced hut If It his hlA time Urn wits valuable there Ihre was wai compensation be hp cause It was wall nit a n time saver Inver Tho The Thoman MINi man of or the story aton and nn the thA shoestring maker reaped the harvest from the Invention It was Will not long tOil I ngo AKO that hightop shoes ahoe Aha wore Invariably laced fishbone fashion all the way up Then came the tho lacing from tram the tho tho the toe to the Ihl hooks with lIh the fishbone lacing from hook to hook honk A later laler devIce was waa wa to Ince lace over and over to within two eyelets elle of ot the and begin the fishbone lacing there here because the latter Is la lamore Ismore ismore more opened than tho the former A few young men Inen who have prided themselves on their display of ot foot toot footgear near gear wearing fancy ho hose hOllo o with shoes and nn trousers turned up havo lacing their shoe with broad laces from thin tho top of ot the shoo shoe down downward van ward want and making makini tho the bow at the tho point nearest tho the toe There Thoro are many merchants merchant of at wealth who olt In shoestrings Perhaps lb I the boy who on r II 01 o u t I country at lit tho thio age of 14 t years later Inter met rust nn ar 01 or 14 h It III n ko l him how him hn h hI n wl wll lie He that ha l t he r hu hiatt v a 18 i n a rf M iiI I t ID antI I flood elat ii e t shoestrings on the York Hun 1 1 |