Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-02-18
Boots for Girls.

Thin soles have undoubtedly caused the
desth o! many lovely girl in the spring
time Of life, and entsiled upon others years
of helpless suffering ard premature death,
at time when the ties that bound her to
earth were multiplied and strengthened BY
The strong instincts OF s.-nahtheSs love-
and yet, in view of these facts, mnltitudes
of the young and giddy still persist in wear
ing thin shoes, even in the cold and damp
Of winter.
1t seems little strange that while good
thick boots are thought necessary for the
health and comfort OF boys, yet their COM
pan;ons of the other sex are seldom seen
with them on, even though exposed 10 the
same vicissitudes of wind and weather.
Why this unwise distinction! Are not
boots just as necessary for the comfort and
convenience of one as the otheri In passing
over the muddy or snowy road, the school
girl needs the protection of boots full as
much as hef more hardy brother. If her feel
are not wet by the exposure, her long skirtS
are damp and often frozen, While the snoW
adheres to the under sides foEthe space of a
quarter of yard up, which cannot be shs-
ken off. She enters the school-room with
glowing cheeks and warm with her health
tul walk, and takes her seat at distance
from the fire. But her damp and frozen
skirts wet her ankles and send a chill thro'
her frame. She has no means of drying them
and thus she sits hour after hour and day
after day. Some may pass through this try
ing ordeal uninjured. but others suffer severe
ly by The present discomfort, and many con-
tract colds, coughs, and consumption, and
thus the graveyard is yearly peoP!ed with
the early dead.
An instance of this kind happened not
long sinre, when the result, though linger-
ing, was so speedy as to leave no dou't as
to the cause. A young and healthul girl of
a dozen years old had about a-mile-and-a-
hall TO walk TO school during the severe
cold, and through the deep SHOWS of winter
before last. As the result, her clothes were
damp around the bottom, her ankles wet
and the teacher, unfit for the station, reiu-
sed The reasonable request to 90 to the stove
during school hours. A severe cold was con-
tracted, and in few months she changed
from plump, fleshy, rosy-cheeked girl, TO
a mere skeleton, pale and langu d, 80 much
so, that her friends who had not seen her
for that time, failed 10 recognize her. Med
zeal advice was no t,fa =; Issa%t-. sStu
well day again, and now she sleeps in death
IL is true all may not suffer as did this one
but there is danger rom all such sex pastures,
and the only comfortable or safe way is for
girls to wear thick boots, and thus be pre-
pared tn encounter the weather ithout risk
of health or comfort.
Boots are necessary article !or the school
room, and are almost equally 50 for the far
mer's wife. who is her own servan., wash
woman, etc. She need not wear them about
her common housework; as TO those unac-
cu.tomed to wearing them. they seem hea-
w and tiresoue, but they are SO nice to slip
on when we Eang OUT clothes, or ruu into
neig ghbor's.
And the country "schoo lma'am'' should
never think OF performing her daily jour
neys to and from the schoul-room, without
her feet encased in good substantial calf
skin boots A neat, well-titting pair of boots
is an essential article which should be found
in the wardr lbs CT every country dame or
damsel, who has an eye to her own comfort
or convenience, nor should she hesitate to
wear them whenever and wherever health
and prudence may dictate Celsstia R. Col
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