The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1867-01-18
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In Halls Journal Of HedtHt We find the
following excellent suggestions concerning
the care of the feet.
If shoes are heated before the fire, they
get hard and wear out much soo1er than if
allowed to dry gradually in the upper part
of the kitchen or family room, furthest from
the fire, or on shelf, or hung on nail.
vARFIsH FOR SHOES,
1t is bad plan to grease the upper leath-
er of shoes for the purpose of keeping them
soft; it rots the leather and admits dampness
more readily. II is better to make varnish
thus: ~ 5r-s
Put half pound of gum-shellac, broken
up in small pieces, in quart bottle or Jug,
cover it with alcohol, cork it tight and put
it on shelf in warm place; shake it well
several times 4 day, then add q hens egg;
shake it well, and in few hours shake it
again and add an ounce of lamp black; If
the alcohol is good, it will be dissolved in
three days; then shake and use. If it geta
too thick, add alcohol-pour out two or three
teaspoonfuls in saucer, and apply it with a
small paint brush. If the materials were all
good, it will dry in about five minutes, and
viii be removed only by wearing it off, Civ
ing gloss almost equal to patent leather.
The advantage of this preparation above
all others is that it does not strike into the
leather and make it hard, butremains on the
surface, and yet excludes the water, almost
perfectly. This same preparation is admira-
BILE for harness, and does not soil when
touched, as lamp-black mixtures de, ~
COLD FEET WHILE TRAVELLING. ,fIt.9
If boots are treated az above, and Just be-
fore going out of doors the stockings are re-
moved, and both feet and stockings are well
dried before the fire, the feet viii feel com,
fortably warm for several hours; it is the
moisture or steam about the feet which often
makes them feel cold by the outdoor air con-
densing them. No one should travelin win
ter with tight-ftting shoes; they arrest the
circulation; this induces coldness causing a
general feeling of discomfort all over the
body, even making the mind fretful and irri-
table. A woolen stocking will alone keep
the feet warmer than the same stockings and
a pair of tight boots besides
If person has good circulation, the feet
will get warm of themselves if the tight boots
are removed. No one can go to bed with
cold feet without doing themselves positive
injury and it is always best in winter time,
even if the feet do not feel cold, at bedtime
to draw off the stockings and hold the feet
to the fire or stove rubbing them meanwhile
with the hand, until they are perfectly dry
and comfortably warm in every part; is a
pleasant operation of itself, and ought not to
be dispensed with from October TO May; it
is one of the best anodynes; it allows a per-
son to fall asleep in Ave minutes, Who with
cold feet, would have remained awake for
half an hour or more, and even then the sleep
will be unrefreshing and dreamy.
TIGHT SHOES
interfere with the pleasure of locomotiop,
cause Germs, and even rheumatic gout; hence
il is worth while to repeat what We have
formerly recommended as an infaIlible and
easy method of ofhaving new foot covering. fit
as easily as an old shoe-just put ontwo pair
of thick stockings before the measure is Ia
en-, or before fitting your feet with ready
made shoes; then when you get home pull off
both pair, put on one thin pair, wear them
for few days and then put on thicker. This
simple expedient will prevent an incalcula-
BILE amount of discomfort, irritation and loss
in one year.