Boot Mend DO IT YOUR SELF
Wear them Tomorrow.

The time when every household had a lass or was it a last. And it did not have a skirt on.

Father would mend the family shoes.

Buy from Woolworth's the 3d and sixpenny store. A piece of leather

Sprigs to nail on the leather.

Sometimes the poorer of families would mend with car tyre rubber. A fine old job it was to cut it. Often one would hear load oaths when the old fellow failed to hit the small nails and hit his protruding thumb.

The Nails being held in the lips being hastily discharged in the speed of a spiting cobra.

The Mother would make herself absent with out leave departing to the kitchen.

Preparing and frying up a bit of bacon and chitterlings to keep him happy.

When the job was finished the kids often would be walking like a load of clog dancers with pepper in their drawers ten foot talk and tap dancing on rubber.

Often to match the mended boots a basin cut hair cut which was a basin placed on the head and cut round.

Executed with the home hair cut clippers.

A few steps non climbable styled in the hair up the back of the head to fill in the action.

This occurred when the old man would bite his tong with the old false teeth going back and forth in time to mimic the manipulating and action of movement of the blades the of the clippers