The Penn's Grove record., 1882-03-04
Sanitary.
Attend TO Your Feet,

We devote a large amount of space
this week to our sanitary condition, as
this is a season of the year when it is
imperatively demanded that we should
guard our health, and ia no way can
we use p~reventives to better advantage
than by observing the following laws
and suggestions from good authority.
Care of the Feet,
The Scientific American says
Many are careless in the keeping of
the feet. If they wash them once a
week they think they are doing well.
They do not copsider that the largest
pores are located in the bottom of the
foot, and that the most offensive matter
is discharged through the pores. They
wear stockings from the beginning to
the end of the week without change,
which become perfectly saturated with
offensive matter. Ill health is gener-
ated by such treatment of the feet.
! The pores are not repellants, but alb
sorbents, and this fetid matter, to a
greater or less extent, is taken back
into the system. The feet should be
washed every day with pure water
only, as well as the arm-pits, from
whichan offensive odor is also emitted,
unless daily additions is practiced.
Stockings should not be worn more
than a day or two at a time. They
may be worn one day if necessary"
The Science of Health says: Never
20 to bed with cold feet. Never try to
sleep without being perfectly certain
that you will be able to keep them
warm. To lie one night with cold
feet, gives such a strain to the system
as will be felt seriously, perhaps end
ing iu a fit of sickness" Cold feet
| show an unbalanced circulation. The
very best thing to do is to warm them
by exercise, if that be practicable. If
not, try dipping them in hot and cold
water alterna tely, two or three times,
and then using vigorous friction. If
that does not warm them, and keep
them warm, heat them before the fire,
drying them thoroughly, and then
correct your habits or improve your
health !; for be sure that one or the
other is wrong perhaps both.
No part of the human body is SO
much neglected as the feet. Possibly,
not over ten in each hundred, of even
the educated classes, properly cleanse
the feet and nails. Battle the feet
every night and morning with a little
borax in the water. Ammonia and
bay rum, though cleansing, have q
tendency to Srythe skin and close the
pores. Frequent change 81 hosiery Is
more necessary than changing any
olasr part of the clothing. After ply
sical exercise, remoVest~akings, bathe
the feet and anoint them, the ankles
and the calves of the legs, with heal
ing oil and salve. Exchange the sock:
worn through the day for clean ones
at early evening, and the brain will
quickly respond to the restoring in
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neglect to wash the face for an entire
month than to neglect to battle the
feet a single day. Pare the nails once
a week, and, only after softening by
bathing, remove the quick, which
gathers under the nail, every thirS
day, before 1t putrsfies. Never us'
cheap or highly perfumed soap, as j
has a tendency to dry and Parch thu
skin, and SO close the pores as to prov
very injurious to health. CASTLE
olive oil, and other vegetable oil soap
are the best for the flesh.-Er
Keep Your Feet Warm.
: To keep these extremities warm L. Il
effect an insurance against the almos