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Show Sand Feet for Clowna Stilts usually employed by circus clowns to give them gigantic stature during their antics in the rings have feet of sand to aid the performer It walking and to maintain bis balance. The poles are of stout hickory flat-tened flat-tened and widened at the tops to fit the wearers thighs and fitted with straps to hold them In position. Toward the bottom the props are rounded and tapered, ending In soft shoes filled with coarse sand which are fastened on tha sticks go that the beels support the points. Wide trousers trou-sers or other apparel cover the stilts for their full length, and the clowns appear to walk on their heels. Popular Pop-ular Mechaulce Magazine. |