Show Is a mere memory now staid granddads grand dads of today can likely hark back to tile the supreme joy 0 of early youth when they first donned a pair of copper toed boots some threescore three score years ago it Is interesting to learn from a writer in the toronto star that their inception was due to a canadian one newman silverthorne whose brain was quickened in this direction by his own exigencies in tramping through wild country naturally boot manufacturers rs did not wax enthusiastic over an innovation that lengthened the life of their wares at such a small extra tra cost and it was wag only by his own exertions in advertising that he created a market for a production that received tile the benediction of many paterfamilias fa though his exclusive enjoyment of the patent lasted but six years and was then promptly shelved by tile tho manufacturers i mr air SlIver thorne Is still enjoying a green old ngo age under the lovan loving g care of a daughter |