San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-11-24
CORN PLAsTERs.

WnaG Is Une UlueTeHCe DeI"Soh
wearing a pair of tight shoes and
owning a saddle horse"
sIf YOU own saddle horse you
buy your corn, but if you wear
tight shoes you grow your own
corns."
So runs the ancient chestnut, but
it is not wholly correct. The pres
enu and improved trilby science
saws that corns are as much the
production of loose shoes as tight
ones. Be this as it may, the pedal
extremities of this generation are
afflicted with corns to a degree,
and the voice Of the corn doctor is
abroad in the land. Turn to the
advertising sheets and the merits
OF the "corn plasters" are seen in
1 flaming letters of every conceiv-
able character. Whether from
tight shoes or from loose ones, the
result is the same and corns multi
ply and torment their possessors,
until the cry is echoed from all
mouths and calls for the corn
plaster multiply. No doubt that
advancing civilization, the more
general use of shoes, the mandates
of fashion and all the rest have in
creased the torment until there
are few feet that are not in the
letters of the corn fiend.
Thus it is that mighty wall
goes up from the novels of the
poverty stricken and the boudoirs
Of the dainty-rich, and calls null
tiply for the corn plaster on the
one hand and the chiropodist on
the other. Thus it is that men
and women go impiDg through
life, pleasure destroyed, comfort
dead in their shoes, walking a bur-
den and The services of the corn
master a constant necessity. In
the home of the poor it disputes
the place with the corn dodger,
and in the home of the rich it finds
its native abode with the most
delicate and sweetly perfumed ar
ticles of the toilet. Disguise it as
we may, excuse it as far as pos
sible, deny it if we can, the truth
remains that the feet of this gen.
Grafton are afflicted with corns and
the corn plaster is as much pow
er as the new baby.
Why it is that the average hui
man consiers it a disgrace to be
afflicted with corns, is one OF the
conundrums, but it is one OF the
facts that is more patent than the
reason therefor. Ask one OF these
afflicted sons or daug hters OF hui
mainly, whether clothed in rags
or silks, wearing brogans or tooth
pic CATERS, that you see limping
along the streets or nursing theil
feet in heroic silence, as to their
cause of discomfort and they viii
tell you anything and every thing
save the naked truth. Acknowl
edge the corn? Not a bit of it
: You could no more wiring the ad
mission from them than an an
Gent inquisitor could draw an ad
mission Of heresy from a moslen
fanatic. The disciples OF the corr
plaster are faithful to their creed
but they worship in secret ant
give the outside world no knowl
edge of tho perpetual penance tina
they perform in their shoes.
AS it is with the corn on tn
human foot, SO is it with those 9th
er corns upon the hearts and heads
the brains and sympathies OF tn
great humanity. Just as the ey
observant notes the victim OF to
corns, by the painful uncertaint
Of the walk and the tender touchi
ness of the foot, so the mind obsel
want notes the symptoms of corn
on the brain, or the heart. Just a
the victims Of toe corns apply fo
their remedies at the hands of tn
chiropOdist or the corn plaster, s
these victims of brain and heal
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