Show SHOES THAT SAVE LEATHER american inventor claims to have made a discovery of much economical importance it if you were to hear someone say hes wearing out shoe cotton lo 10 looking king for a job it sound queer you have been used to hearing it said this way iles hes wearing out shoe leather looking for a job but the new way wont sound so foolish it if the plans of an american do not go astray tor for he has invented a cotton shoe solo bole which experts say la Is as good as leather leather is scarce and dear because cattle are getting relatively scarcer and scarcer every year an actual decrease of cattle in the united states in twenty years has been found by the census enumerators of f urcle sam but in th the same cami p pe 41 of time the population of the country has been increased by at the beginning of the two de cade period or in 1890 there were almost as many cattle in the land as there were human beings but tn iya 1910 there were well toward twice as many people as cattle inasmuch as cotton is cheaper than cowhides cowhided cow hides it stands to reason that cotton soles should make our shoes cheaper |