. India rubber world. it proved ex-tremely difficult to interest the hard-headed Yankees in thesenew vulcanized goods. .\s a result, the Candee salesman who started out throughXew England with his rubber shoes found that a great manypeople were disinclined even to give them inspection; andin order to secure a market the salesman gave away a goodmany introductory pairs. It was not necessary, however, todo this a second season, because it was soon discovered thatthe new vulcanized shoes were entirely different from theunvulcani/.ed footwear of a few years before. Probably not many pairs of the s
. India rubber world. it proved ex-tremely difficult to interest the hard-headed Yankees in thesenew vulcanized goods. .\s a result, the Candee salesman who started out throughXew England with his rubber shoes found that a great manypeople were disinclined even to give them inspection; andin order to secure a market the salesman gave away a goodmany introductory pairs. It was not necessary, however, todo this a second season, because it was soon discovered thatthe new vulcanized shoes were entirely different from theunvulcani/.ed footwear of a few years before. Probably not many pairs of the shoes made in 1844—tlu-lirst year of rubber footwear manufacture in this country far as that is concerned, in any country—are still extant,but through the courtesy of the Commercial. of Winnipeg,we have secured photographic illustrations of two shoesmade in that year liy tlic Xew Brunswick Rulibcr thecuts showing both a side and a sole view. These arewomens shoes, and it will be noticed that they have no. A Relic of 1844. heels. Women in iliosc days were content to walk on suchfeet as Heaven had vouchsafed to them, and had not learnedto resort to French heels and Cuban heels for the purposeof subtracting from the length of their feet to add to theirstature. They wore heelless shoes and. naturally, rubbers to lit them were also made heelless. .other noticeable fea-ture is the squareness of the toes, pointed toes being at thattime not at all in vogue. .othcr point of difference from present-day footwearwill be noticed in one of the shoes, which has four straps
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