Show CHINESE SHOES the comfort and 0 woven straw Saad alft 1 I may seem to bo quarreling with ray broad and butter said an up town chiropodist to ono of his best customers tho other day but in my humble and somewhat professional opinion the most sensible of all men in the matter of footwear is abo chinaman did you aver notice his feet I 1 dont believe there is such a thing as a corn or a bunion in all china chiropodists would starve to death there eo far as the requirements of the masculine foot are concerned whatever the deformities inflicted on the feet of women in china may bethe men certainly enjoy sound and comfortable understandings look at the chinese laundrymen hero in washington they stand at their work 18 hours a day no class of workingmen I 1 know of epand so many hours on their feet as they do yet they never break down there and physically they are a wonderfully der fully healthy race simple living and freedom from abo nervous pursuits of our civilization may have something to do with it but I 1 at tribute their exemption from foot weakness and disease to the kind of house shoo so universally worn by them I 1 have a pair that I 1 have worn for several years and I 1 wear anything else for genuine indoor comfort they aro woven of straw and seaweed and soled with borso hida abero is a thick solo of straw above the leathery and through this tho air can ly keeping the muscles of part of the foot always cool if ho laua daymen drymen you notice aro usually ba foot which is an added advantage iu the matter of there is about as little material in the uppers is consistent with the idea of a shoe and this is juat enough to keep the tiling on the foot this upper too is woven loosely of seaweed ao that the air can have access ta the foot nowhere docs this shioo pinch or in the least io greo press the foot these aro the indoor shoes of ftfe chinaman on the street hero in tiie united states nowadays ho wears very commonly abo leather choca or boots at american manufacture that is one of the ways in which ho is becoming americanized but the outdoor alth elico of china is a groat deal worn also that like tho indoor shoe is very thick and foft in the sole and the foot ie never pinched or strained by it tho healthiest footgear ever known probably was abo sandal of tho greeks it biad no upper and as you will in statuary tho feet of men and women ideally all the sandal afforded was a protection from the ground to him who arara sandals arabs it is as if the world were shod with leather abo chinaman follow out this motto and his shoos anro nearly bolcs and nothing mora but the great secret of the excellence of his indoor shoo is the halt inch straw solo washington star |