The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-01-17
Warm Feet.

A correspondent OF the american
| AgricuIturiSt furnishes that paper with
the following remarks on warm feet,
which remarks are admirably calculated
for this latitude:
"To go with cold feet is to under
mine the constitution, and this half the
women and the girls are doing. They
have habit of cold feet and an accom-
panying habit of i'll health. Thick home
knit wooden stockings are not very fash
ionable. Once, no country girl was
reckoned fit to be married until she had
knit her pillow-case full of stockings.
but it is not so now. [ do not regret
that less hand knitting is done now than
formerly, but I hope we shall not give
up warm wooden stockings for winter
until we can replace them with some
thing better. MerinO, or the common
" bOughten white wool stockings, are
rather thin, but some of us supplement
them with an additional pair of cotton
stockings, wearing the cotton or the
WOODEN pair next the feet, as individuals
prefer Cold feet are often caused, at
least in part, by too tight elastics or
bands at the tops of the stockings, or
by tight shoes, or shoes tight in the
ankles. These interfere with the circu-
lation of the blood, and there cannot be
comfortable degree of warmth without
a good circulation and aeratiOn of the
blood. My last lesson in this matter
came from baby's experience last Sep
TENDER. Suddenly she contracted
habit of having cold feet, and when I
warmed them the skin seemed hard and
inactive, suggesting the need of a bath,
when a bath did not seem necessary ex-
cept for the feet At length it occurred
to me that her "ankle-ties had been
too loose, and Just before we came home
from our visit young lady cousin had
set the buttons back farther, to make
the little slippers stay on better. Ever
since that change the slipper-straps had
been too tight around her ankles, es
pecially after [ had put on wooden stock
ings. [ changed the buttons again, and
her feet no longer got cold, except in
consequence of the actual rigor of the
climate. Some well-informed persons
object to Congress CATERS, the elastic
are usually SO close and firm about the
ankle. Only very loose carriers are al
lowable, and these may not be necessa-
ry when the stockings are worn over I'M
der drawers. Carriers in the shape of
straps buttoning to both waist and
are ulOSG SSDSlDl6 lOl WOul6n
as well as children.
Many women are obliged to work in
kitchens where the floors in winter are
always cold. It helps matters TO have a
carpet down, but the kitchen carpet is
objectionable on the score of cleanliness,
especially where there are many children.
A few large thick rugs are better. These !
can be shaken often, and will afford the !
kitchen occupants warm places to stand !
or sit at their work. There are some |
very cold days when I wear my arctic |
overshoes all day, and the children also |
keep on Overshoes. The floors of our |
houses are many degrees colder than the |
air about our heads.
One thing too little thought of in this
connection is absolutely essential to
healthy warmth of the body. That is
pure air. Men who work in the open
air some every day have great advan
tage over housekeepers Their blood
gets oxygenated, and so purified Gas far
such de gree of air can do it, and pre-
pared to warm and nourish the body, of
which tie blood is the constant up
builder. Everybody, male and female,
Did and young, ought to get out of doors
some every day, and breathe freely with
the mouth.
The air of sleeping rooms and other
living rooms should be purified each
lay.
Keep brick or soapstones in the oven,
20 be wrapped up and put under your
eet when you are obliged to sit for
at distance from the fire, es-
'eclally II you are writing or studying. !