Show WOODEN SHOES IN KENTUCKY dutch settlers around lou aville im port pairs of them the very mention of the idea that wooden shoes are worn in and around louisville seems a bit preposterous to the modern citizenship of this sec tion but they must be worn here tor they are shipped here two hundred pairs of these unique specimens of footwear passed through the louisville port yesterday they came directly from rotterdam con signed to a local firm the hollanders are famous for making and wearing wooden shoes and never lose their desire for wear ing them even when they come to this country scattered around in this section there la 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 born dutch the shoes are not only unique tn their make but are extremely light they are worn mostly during the winter and in extreme wet beathel they are made of one piece of wood and there is no such thing as leak in them there has been tut slight change in their make tor cen louisville courier journal |