The mountain Democrat., 1865-12-02
Children's Feet.

Lifelong discomfort, disease and sudden
death often comes to children through the
inattention, ignorance or carelessness Of
the parents. A child should never be al
lowed to 20 to bed with cold feet the
thing to be last attended to, in putting o
child to bed, should be to see that the feet
are dry and warm; neglect Of this has
often resulted 10 . dangerous attack Of
Group, diptheriA, or fatal sore throat.
Always on coming from school on enter
ing the house from visit in rainy or mud
dy weather the ch;s&2 shoes should be
removed, and the mother should herself
ascertain if the stockings are the least
damp and if so, should require them to
be taken of, the feet held before the fire
and rubbed with the hand until perfectly
dry, and another pair Of stockings and
shoes be put on, while the other stockings
and shoes should be placed where they
can be dried, so as to be ready for iuture
use at a moments notice.
There are children not ten years Of age
suffering from cornes from too close fitting
shoes, by the parent having been tempted
to "take" them because few cents were
deducted, from the price, While the child's
foot is constantly growing. A shoe
large enough with thin stockings is too
small on the approach Of cold weather
and thicker hose, but the consideration
that they are only hSlf-worn is sufficient
sometimes to require them to be worn,
with the result of corn, which is to be
more or less Of trouble for fifty years, per-
haps, and all this to save the price Of q
pair of half worn shoesl No child should
be fitted with shoes without putting on
two pair of thick woolen stockings, and
the shoe should 60 on moderately easy
even over these. Have broad heels, and
less than half an inch in thickness.
Tight shoes inevitably arrest the free cir
culatiOn of the blood and nervous infiuen
Ces through the feet, and directly tend Il
cause cold feet-and health, with hsbitu
ally cold feet, is an impoAsibility.
That party is guilty Of criminal negli
gence who does not always see to it tina
each child enters the church or school
house door with feet comfortably dry ant
warm. Grown persons Of very limite'
intelligence know that, as to themselves
uhulp Icct euuAuBct hCultu ohu nv uS"
ever robust much more so must it be T.
the tender constitution Of 4 growing child
have never known 9 shoemaker
whether in sending home a pair of DeN
shoes or old ones repaired, to fail leavin
several pegs or ironnails to project throug
the sole on the inside. The result is ths
often in a single day, the excitement c
play preventing child from noticing an
discomfort, the stockings are cut throug
= in several different places, and ugly sore
: are made in the solcs Of the feet, to
an annoyance and trouble for q wee
, afterward; beside the unnecessary wor
given to an already Overtasked mother
mending the stockings. To avoid the n
suits of such inexcusable neglect, and q
so to make it sure that pegs and nail
should not "work through" by the shrink
age Of the leather, and also to keep the fee
dry, there should be worn between th
leather of the shoe and the stocking piec
of cork, or soft, thick pasteboard, lined a
the bottom with q piece Of oiled silk
and on the upper side touching the stock
ing the lining should be OF Canton flannel
each person should have two pair ofthese
to be worn on alternate days.-l Hail.
Journal Of Health.