Show I 1 CHINESE WOMEN MAKE ZE SHOES making shoes is the interminable task of chinese women front from youth to old age travelers see them ausy in every ever moment moment when necessity does not require attention to some other work plying the threads back and forth in and out in the endless effort to keep the men of their household supplied with footwear where there Is a surplus the shoes are sold to the shops only cloth and paper are used abe ho thickness or the soles of alternating layers of cloth and paper held together by paste often indicate in variations of from one half hair to two inches the wealth of the wearers bearers the shoes are arc noiseless and comfortable for table but on rainy days china stops indoors because the shoes readily absorb water I 1 I 1 the women make their 0 own all tiny shoes in tile the seclusion of 0 their quarters even the tha husband forbidden to watch their manufacture asia |