The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1891-10-10
coURTlNo DISEASE AND DEATH.
serious Results Of "A Funny Fashionable
Way Of Dressing Children.

serious Results Of Funny Fashionable
Way Of Dressing Children.
"IIow cunning those children look
with their bare little legsW exclaimed
pretty girl on Connecticut avenue day
or two ago, calling attention 10 three
youngsters who, though the air was bit
ter cold, were playing In the street.
One Of them was u small girl Of about
seven years, with BkirJsSO short that her
fairy limbs were visible in their nudity
from mid-thigh to three inches above the
shoe, where the sock began.
"Ughw growled the physician, who
was the young lady's companion in her
promenade.
"Yes," she said, 'ft lsoks rather cold,
but It's the swell thing now, you know,
and awfully English~
ugh! Collins are stylish, too, sup
pose"
"Why, what can you meanF'
"Simply this" responded the man Of
medicine. "Of all the idiotic notions
| am acquainted with, the one You call
my attention 10 Is the most Gbbcring
and driveling. The ground on which it
IL defended Is that it makes children
hardy 10 go barelcgged in winter. As Il
matter Of fact it is an outrage On the
laws of nature. Go up to the regions Of
the arctic circle and you will find the
children playing about in the snow with
their bodies very nearly unclad, but
their arms and legs are always warmly
wrapped. Now, why is this:"
III can't imagine
"Then let me tell you it is because the
trunk Of the body, being the seat Of the
vital organs, is naturally warmer, and
has a more vigorous circulation than the
limbs. Why is it that your feet and
hands on frosty day get cold first: Oh,
viously for the reason that they are
most remote from the heart Therefor
they need protection. Likewise the
arms and legs require covering most.
Keep the limbs warm, and the body will
be warm; that is the esquimau principle,
and it is a true one, 50 far as it goes, but
already we have, largely for fashions
sake. children running about in an at
mosphere that is below freezing, with
their bodies warmly clad and their poor
little legs exposedr
But they look very healthy"
"Undoubtcdly. Were they not healthy
children they would have succumbed to
this aboninable practice in dress long
ago. But no health is 50 robust as to be
able 10 afford to invite pneumonia and
other kindred ills which are always
rpady 10 attack the most sturdy person
who risks imprudence. For parents to
send their children abroad 80 exposed il
TO extend a cordial invitation to disease
aud death. OF course that does not mat
ter, however, if il is really English.
What sort of shoes are those you are
wearing"
"Shoes:" said the pretty girl, some
what taken by surprise. why, they
are quite new and a very nice pair,
think"
"Do you?" grunted the physician.
What right have you, pray, to wear
shoes at this season with sOles an eighth
Of an inch thick? More colds are caught
in that way than in any other. Not so
much on day like this rs ON warm
day. You said a few moments ago that
you had cold; probably you caught it
during the last warm spell we had. You
went ont with such pair of shoes on.
The temperature of the air around you
was about s. degs.; the bricks you
walked upon were evaporating moisture.
Evaporation makes cold. That is the
reason why cologne, which evaporates
quickly, makes you cool when you rub
it upon your face.
80, while your body was warmed by
the sun your feet were heing refrigerated
ut a temperature below freezing. Re
suit, cold. You hear people say every
day, 4 can't imagine where | caught this
cold; have not been imprudent in any
way thai know of. The secret of it is
simply that they have been wearing thin
soled shoes. Suppose that the sole be-
comes damp, even though the foot is not
made wet, the water furnishes the best
possible medium for conducting the heat
out of the body. The moral of all this,
my dear young lady, is to wear shoes
with good, thick soles throughout the
winter season. Washington Star.