Evening journal., 1888-11-07
PREVENTING SORE FFFr.

"Of course ths trouble was boots Mrs
Acton continued 1--WE were recommended
all sorts Of 'hygienie soles and everything,
and we tried everything, and we had to give
them all up. We gave up boots altogether
and took to sand shoes-cAnvas shoes with
india rubber soles. Those allow the feet to
so anyhow they like; there is no pressure,
and we found them admirable We never
got blisters or sore feet or anything. We
used to soap our toes and heels and the IN
sides OF our stockings before ne started;
that is very good thing. Then as to wash
ing, we could not possibly,stop to have every
thing washed at the inns and places, SO the
way we managed our washing was to have
one thing wished each night We found we
could always get one thing washed and
quickly got mp, and so we had clean things
without the trouble OF carrying any with Us
I'VE carried no umbrellas. A city man,
neighbor Of ours IN London, asked mo before
we started: How many umbrellas arc Won
going to takeF and when / replied, Not
one he was perfectly borrihed; it made him
quite i'll. But, though the weather was very
bad in England, we did very well without.
In the first part Of the Tins we walked in our
mackintoshes and hats that the rain would
not hurt. OF course, it wns very muddy;
and, what with the mad and tho rain and
the sun, our dress got into such a state we
were quite ashamed Of ourselves; and on
Saturday nights we had to stop somewhere
and buy flowers or some little frilling or
something to brighten up our hats to 60 to
church in next morning. But we never had
colds, In spite of having no umbrellas, and
though we had q great deal Of gray cold
weather that people complained of, We found
il gDleudid weather for vallrin0D
''And the habyT'
'Oh, baby got quite like gypsy; he quite
enjoyed it. First thing In the morning he
used TO says 'Tite ready. tite ready, to goP"
AVERAGE YER DAY.
''What distance did You cover in q day on
the averager'
I'VE walked sixteen and eighteen, and one
day twenty miles, but the average was
twelve. We made it rule to 60 twelve
miles day. Sundays Te rested. We always
felt very aifectionately disposed toward the
nnlestones. Here's another delightful mile
stoae,' the children would say. And that was
one matter in which we saw a most remark
able difference between Scotland and
England. Directly we got over the border
there were neither milestones nor direction
posts. We did find some near Ayr, but all
broken, not the slightest use; while in
England they were all SO well kept you
couldn't so wrong.n
What was your plan Of walkingF "Ws
made it a rule to start by ESQ, after break
fast We walked few hours and then rested
during the heat Of the day, and walked again
in the afternoon. Having so many children
with us, the anxiety was to get into some
place for stopping at before dark-by 6, if
possible, but never later than z. Sometimes
we had great difficulty in getting accommo-
dated-at Belper, for instance. Sometimes
we had the toughest lodgings, and sometimes
we were at the most splendid hotels We
just took what we could find, in fact We
found we had to keep to the high roads, for
two reasons-first, that we must have a good
road for the perambulator and the side roads
were so frightfully heavy and lumpy; and
for another thing we had TO 20 to the towns
to put up-ten people arriving all at once
and wanting beds is something alarming in
small place. Pail Mall Gazette.