The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-02-14
sNowsHoEING.
How to Guard Against Three Great
 Ills-Care of Shoes.

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 Ills-Care of Shoes.
 An experienced woodsman takes mighty good care of his snowshoes. | He knows their importance.
 | If there are dogs around the snow shoes must be hung out of their reach at night. Following the long trail day after day and sometimes week after week shorten the life of the shoes if they were always worn on the same | fott so careful man changes both his moccains and snowshoes from right to left every morning? This in sures even wearing.
 Men often carry with them a gimlet a crooked knife and few fathoms of | bahiehe, the thongs of which the shoes are knit. If break occurs or there is an accidental cut with an axe, repairs can be easily made on the spot. | When snowshoes become wet they should never be dried near the fire, says a writer in Recreation, bu: by tse night frost or the wind. Tho hea- V nl so affect the 5&hiche that tie | shoe will giYe out all over. If tn. happens on a long journey 1t IS . calamity that affects the whole party, | for man cannot be left behind. Blistered feet and nal de raquette are affiictions on the long trail So is snow blindness. But by proper preca- tion they may be avoided.
 The principal cause of blistered feet | is having irritating socks and keeping the feet too warm. Properly tying the snowshoe strings and bridle is help in escaping the affiiction.
 Some make the mistake of adjusting the foot ridged to the snowshoe. The sock, a loose moccasm over the sock play of foot in the snowshoe strings and freedom under the bridle. This. with ventilation about the ankle (that is, only the leather shoe upper about IiD will enable one to walk day after day without discomfort.
 Nal de raquette generally overtakes one when the snow is deep and heavy which causes an unusual strain on the muscles of the lower leg. The veins become clotted by overheating and the blood being kept in the lower extremi- ties.
 In a very bad case of neglect, from the knee down Sometimes in one leg but more frequently in both) the limbs swell to two or thre times their nor 1 nal size and turn black when the foot Is moved an audible rasping sound is plainly heard at a distance of ten or twenty feet and the sufferer endures great agony.
 The prelude to this disease is a numbness or tired feeling. When this noticed the person should bare his
 legs to the thigh, after the campfire has been started, and jump into the snow. When he has stayed till it has become unbearable, let him go to the fire and rub each leg vigorously with coarse towel or an empty sack till thorough circulation is restored Next day he will be as fresh as ever
 When the symptoms are only slight some men suspend their feet on a strap or a pole and lie and smoke their after supper pipe while the blood flows back to the body, But the former way is the quicker and the surer.
 For downright agony snow blindness is the worst of snowshoeing ills. Blind ing hot tears run constantly from the sufferers eyes. The only cure is rest a darkened room or camp. The patient is actually blind. A foot from his face everything is a blur.
 It is not generally known that con- ttnuous walking on snowshoes length ems a mans stride very considerably. I have known men, whose usual sum mer step about the fort would be twenty nine or thirty inches, to have