The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1904-03-12
BOOTS PREVENT COLDS.
some City Men Wear Them as Well
rs Farmers, Miners and other
Outdoor Workers.

Il once knew" said citizen who. n
New York Sun says, is old enough to r,
member when everybody in city an
country alike wore boots, Il once kne
man who was always catching coIt
he worked on lumber wharf, and
was there one day that he mentioned Z
me incidentally the fact about his colds
i looked at his feet. He wore boots
but he had his trouser legs outside of hi
bootiegs.
III you would tuck your trouser leg
inside OF your bootlegs," said to him
you wouldn't have any more colds"
| And he followed that suggestion ant
did tuck his trouser legs into his boots
and didn't catch cold any more.
You see, walking about on that wharf
oil day. handling lumber and with the
cold wind coming up from underneath
between the planks of the wharf and
walking up his trouser legs. he couldn't
help catching cold; but with his trousers
inside his boots and his legs thus better
protected. why, those draughts didn't
AFFECT him any more, and he was all
right.
They don't build wharves now anv
more as they did that one, but the fact
remains that boots are the thing to wear
In winter on wharves and everywhere
else; and that the way to wear them to
get the greatest benefit from them is
with the trousers tucked in them to keen
The cold away from the legs.
why do you suppose the countrymen
wears his trousers inside his bootlegs7
II isn't because he's a hayseed and
countryman, and just wears them that |
way; it's because that's the best way To |
wear them to keep out the cold and to |
protect him from taking cold.
1 don't know anything about the
statistics, but I'll bet that there's much
less pneumonia in the country than in
Inc city, and this because the country
man In winter wears boots and keeps his
egs protected. know that shoes are
commonly worn in the country as well
rs In the city, but they are so worn only
or purposes of ordinary wear. For wet
work OF any kind, and for winter. the
still wears boots.
Boots are still worn in the city. as a
natter of fact. to some extent by men
Fhose employment is out of doors: by q
olicemen and firemen and truckmen a
nd street cleaners, and so on: and Won {
Ill notice that these not only wear boots {
ut wear them with their trousers legs il
licked in them. g
But most of us in the city nowadays q
ear SHOES summer and winter, the year 81
,und, and suffer from wearing them in a
inter. y
LOOK at the men sitting on either side d
street car. Here is one MAN knock W
g his feet together to get his toes h
arm. Very likely above the tops of his fl,
oes his ankles are protected from the in
"a only by the thickness of his socks n,
q the cold has free access above that ST
g feet are cold, of course, and thus ar
protected he is more liable to catch di
ID On
Possibly there may be seen sitting tn
ar 10 him a man, an outdoor worker. de
airing boots. and he. with his ankles. flu
mas legs partly. at least, protected
the bootlegs, is comfortable.
And then you do occasionally SEQ a..
ong city men even now man not en- 49,
yea In outdoor work who wears boots 80
cushioned men, these? Not peces- o.
lily SO, by any means -,
They may be men of years, but still be an
from antique. They lived in the dav =.
en- everybody wore boots, and. know ,w,
well the boots advantages, still wear rn
% and so preserve health and COM b.,
bsl
don't suppose we'll ever go back to cur
Is In the city; but IT would be good aga
e for us all to wear boots in the win the
and with our trousers tucked into mis-
In cold weather. There are. / sun
:, at least 1000 different remedies for I,
s, but the best of all preventions is Owe
od pair Of boots. And I'll bet that +,
e-Quarters of the physicians of the !"
wear boots" g,