Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-16
Children. reef.

| From Halls journal Of Health.l
Lifelong discomfort, disease and sudden
| death, often come to children through the in
attention, ignorance or carelcssness of the
parents. A child should never be allowed
TO go to sleep with cold feet the thing TO be
last attended to, in putting 4 child to bed,
should be to see that Che feet are dry and
warm neglect Of this has often resulted in
a dangerous attack Of Group, dipiheria, or
fatal sore throat.
Always, on coming from sciiool, on enter
| ing the house from visit or Grand in rainy,
muddy or thawy weather, the childs shoes
| should be removed, and the mother should
herself ascertain if the stockings are the
| least damp; andif 50, should require them
to be taken of, the feet held before the FIRE
and rubbed with the hand until perfectly dry,
and another pair o. stockings put on, andan-
other pair ef shoes, while the ether stockings
and shoes should be placed where they can
be well dried, so as 10 be ready for future use
at moments notice.
There are children not ten years Of age,
suffering with cOrns from too close fitting
| shoes BY the parent having been tempted
10 take them because few cents were de-
| Quoted from the price, while the ehild's foot
is constantly growing. A shoe large enough
with thin stockings, atoo small ON the APP
proaeh Of cold weather and thicker hose but
the consideration that they are only half
worn il sufficient sometimes to require them
10 be worn, with a result ola corn, which is
to be more or Hess OF troable for fifty year.,
| perhaps and all this 10 save the price Of a
! pair Of half worn shoes No child should
be fitted with shoes without putting on two
pair Of thick WOODEN stockings, and the shoe
shedid 70 on moderately easy, even over
these. Have broad heels and les than half
an inch in thickness.
Tight 4hoes inevitably arrest the free cir
eulation Of the blood and nervous influences
through the feet, and directly tend 50 cause
cold feet and health, with habitual cold
feet, i an impossibiiity.
That parent Is guilty Of a criminal neg
| ligence who does not always see to.it that
each child enters the ehurshan seho0lhouse
door with feet comfortably dry and warm.
Grown persons with very observation-disclosures
] know that a. to themselves damp feet en-
danger health and life, however robust !;
much more 20 must Il be 10 the tender con-
sfitution Of a growing child.
I have never known a shoemaker, whether
IN sending home pair Of new shoes or old
ones repaired, 70 fiil leaving several pegs or
iron naiIs 20 project through the sole on the
inside. The result l., that cfsen in n single
dav, the excitement Of play preventing .
I child from noticing any discomfort, the
stockings are cut through IN several places
and ugly sores are made in the soles Of the
feet, 70 bea annoyanceandt roubleior aweek
afterward; besides the unnecessary work
given 10 an already osertasked mother in
inending the stockings. TO avoid the results
Of such inexcusable aagiect, andalso to make
Il more sure that pegs and nails should not
work through BY the siirinksEe Of the leather,
and also keep tho feet dry, there should
: be worn between the leather Of the shoe and
the stocking piece OF cork, or sofs thick
passeboard, lined at the bottom with piece
Of oiled six, and on the upper side, touch
ing the stocking, the lining shoald be Of
Canton flannel; each person should have
two pairs Of these, to be worn on alternate
days.
or the four great dailies Of Mex YIN r.. !.
TIE Nees, TIE Watk. -a ''...i -',lI : =
1r-,1.,.,-,o,,i,r ,I,a i-~s-Is opposed 10 the re-
;,iicy Of President johnson.