SHOE MAKER,
where a genteel looking woman was trying on a pair of shoes for her little baby.
Shoe MakerPublished Feby1, 1815, by J. Harris, corner of St. Pauls.
Shoe MakerPublished Feby1, 1815, by J. Harris, corner of St. Pauls.
"Shoes," said Mr. Durnford, "are made of various materials, such as satin, silk, stuff, kid, Spanish leather, seal skin, and morocco. The latter comes from a place in Africa of that name, but we imitate it ourselves, and not badly. The hide of cattle serves for the soles. The silk you know is the produce of the Southern climates, and comes from the silk worm. Vast quantities of raw silk are imported here from Italy and different parts, as well as velvet, of which again we have an imitation. You understand, my children, that our imitations of foreign manufactures come considerably lower than those which we import. Shoe making has also become one of the amusements of thefashionable world, but it gives me infinite pleasure to know that your mother has never adopted this fashion, which, like many others must tend to injure the interests of the industrious tradesman."
Their attention was now awakened by a violent scream, which proceeded from a young lady, who, with her brother, was standing at the counter of a