The weekly union record., 1865-11-18
NO. 3.
Gildren's Feet.

LlieionS discomfort, disease, ana
sudden death. often ccme TO children
through the inatsension, ignorance, or
carelessness of the parents. A child
should never be allowed to 60 to sleep
with cold feet; the thing to be last at
tended to, in putting child to bed,
should be to see that the feet are dry
and warm; neglect of this has often
resulted in dangerous attack of Group
diptheria, or fatal sore throat.
Always, on coming from school, on
entering the house from visit or errand
in rainy, muddy or thawy weather, the
child's 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
off, the feet held before the fire and
rubbed with the hand until perfectly dry
and another pair of stockings be put on
and another pair of shoes, while the
other stockings and shoes should be
placed where they can be well dried,
so as to be ready for future use at o
moments notice.
There are children not ten years OF
age suffering from corns 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 ap-
proach of cold weather and thicker hose,
but the consideration that they are only
half worn is sufficient sometimes to re-
quire them to be worn, with the result
of a corn, which is to be more or less of
trouble for fifty years, perhaps; and all
this to save the price of a pair of half
worn shoes No child should be fitted
with shoes without putting on two pair
of thick woolen stockings, and the shoe
should 90 on moderately easy even over
these. Have broad heels, and less than
half an inch in thickness.
Tight shoes inevitably arrest the free
circulation of the blood and nervous in
huences through the feet, and directly
tend to cause cold feet and health with
habitually cold feet is an impossibility.
That party is guilty Of criminal
negligence who does not always see to it
that each child enters the church or
schoolhouse door with feet comfortably
dry and warm. Grown persons of very
limited intelligence know that, as to
themselves, damp feet endanger health
and life, however robust much more
so must it be to the tender constitution
of growing child.
have never known q shoemaker,
whether in sending home a pair Of new
shoes or old ones repaired, to fail leav-
ing several pegs or iron nails to project
through the sole on the inside. The
result is that often in a single day, the
excitement of play preventing child
from noticing any discomfort, the stock
ings are cut through in several places,
and ugly sores are made in the soles Of
the feet, to be an annoyance and
trouble for a week afterward beside
the Unnecessary work given to an already
overtasked mother in mending the stock
ings. To avoid the results of such in
exeusable neglect, and also to make it
sure that pegs and nails should not
"work through" by the shrinkage of the
leather, and also to keep the feet dry,
there should be worn between the leather
of the shoe and the stocking piece of
cork, or soft, thick pasteboard, lined at
the bottom with a piece of oiled silk,
and on the upper side touching the
stocking the lining should be of Canton
flannel; each person should have two
pair of these, to be worn on alternate
days.-Halps Journal of Health.
IRELAsD.-It has been governed for
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