Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1856-06-13
THIN SHOES.
BY z J. HALE.

You are not going out to walk in
those thin gaiter boots, Kate asked
Mary Adams Of her friend Kate Durs,n,
as they met for a morning walk.
And why not, pray: they are thick
solod, I'm sure. Indeed, called them
very thick and clumsy when | bough.
them, and came near taking another
pair instead. Thin, forsooth. Why,
what would you have me wear, Mary
Something 10 protect your feet, Kate,
not merely a coDe,ing for them. You
will not have gone half way down the
street, before these will be perfectly
saturated. Do you know how bad it is
oui :
Not worse, prNsume, than it was
yesterday--th1n it has been hundred
times when have been out thus.
shall not wet my feet, Mary; or, if do.
it will not hurt me. am strong and
can bear it. do no. wish to bee ONE
SO tender and delicate as half the Young
ladies are.
But, ny dear girl, you are taking the
very means to do this. You cannot al
ways bear it, depend upon it, you can
not. Sooner or Later there will come a
time When the overtaxed frame will
yield-believe me there will; and it may
come suddenly. With strong constitu-
tiols Ike yours. it is often thus. The
1.-THE and delicate willow will sway and
benl in the strong breeze, whore the
would brcfk at once O, Kate. do be
a.lviscd-do be warned, Ny very
heart aches to see You go cut thus
Why, Miry, you have given me
quite a lecture. But assure you it is
not at all needed. What | always have
done, feel that always can do. It is
all in habit, Mary-all in habit but
come. | hive only my turs to put IN
then | am ready
Would that your furs would protect
your fe,t. sighed Mary. as, drawing on
her nicchtting rubber 1oots, which We're
indeed a protection, and throwing her
thibit crf about her neck, she went
forth with her friend.
Ready to walk again. Kate asked
Mary, bounding into her friend room as
bright and happy as bird, few morn
in.s after this conversation. But start
ing, when she saw kate,s pale and has-
gard cou4tenancc. she exclaimed feeling
ly--
Why, my friend, what is the matter
YOU are not sick, are yon. :,
Only Il slight cola, Mary, tt;' IS all
It will soon be gone, for -, COLDS never
.F.s cannot walk to-day, fear; 50
yc. viii have to 90 without me, she
added with faint smile.
N, | viii remain with you awhile
l have my work in my pocket, so l can
stay as well as not, But pray, how did
you take your cold, Kata:'
Slightly bIushins, and moving un-
easily in her chair, She replied:
Some how in our walk the other
nornin5. believe your were half
right. after all But there it will be
soon overt is nothing serious. In
deed it is not, continued she, observ-
lng Mary $ troubled face.
We'll. KITE, if it only teaches you a
lesson for the future, and it be not al
reaHy too late, all may yet be WE'LL
But often fear for these slight colds
Incy do not always prove such in the
en- d.
But you shall see that mine will, re-
piled Kate, quickly,
Il hope sol hope so, my friend. but
promise me yon viii never, nerer ex-
pose yourself thus a gain
4 do promise, Mary, answered Kate,
bad caugh racking her whole frame.
oh ii We all could only feel the im-
portlace ofthis m tier, continued Mary.
earnestly, how many precious lives
might be saved This going with feet
unprotected, with ankles exp scl, gives
physicians half their fees, the yards
+ half their tenants. may speak strong
", for feel deeply. We cannot go
out in the snow at all. whether it be
wet or whether 1t be dry, without being
exposed more or less. For if it be not
SO Wtl as " SdluldlC Jul pOblos ~ VIII
then adhere to our cloths. thus wctting
the ankles, which is nearly as bad. In
deed, of the two, would quite as soon
wet he former. The consequences
would not be more serious.
This practice of robing the neck and
wrists in furs, it seems to me, is rather
injurious than otherwise. 1t keeps
them too warm. unless in the most ex-
treme cold. And the wearing Of them
has become such fashion, such man
ia, that cold or warm, they must go on
all the same Why, have actually sal
in church this very season, with my
thibet scarf thrown back. my cloak un.
fastened at the neck, and using fan al
that, when half the ladies in the house
were robed in furs, which but few even
threw buck. l could not bear it at all
| should quite sufocate. And, more
over, bundled up SO in the house,
should be sure OF cold taken when
went out. And yet III be safe in saying
that not one half of them had their fee,
and ankles protected as they ought
!, But forgive me, Kate; did not mean te