Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-17

The most scrupulous cleanliness is needed for the health and beauty of the feet, and so daily bath and a comfortable supply of stockings are required. The best results are ob tained by putting on a fresh pair of stockings every day, and in case of profuse precipitation they should be changed at least twice day. If the stockings are washed out immediate ly upon being taken off, six pairs would make an adequate summer sup ply. Silk is undoubtedly the best stocking material for hot weather, this being cooler to the feet than cotton and permitting the shoes to slip or more easily. Gauge cotton is the next best thing in point of softness to the foot, and three pairs of quite fine stock ings in this material can be had for one dollar. Lisle, even in the finest qualities, is to certain degree rasp- ing to the foot, causing often, besides, 8 most disagreeable burning.
 Women in the smart set go to the pedicure for the removal of corns and callouses, but these afflictions can be treated at home and there are special baths for softening the horny places and for resting all the feet One is made with ordinary waahing soda about half cupful to a gallon of wa ter-this being fof softening the cal louses preparatory to their removal with knife or file or pumicestone, for all of these tools are used A bath with pound of sea salt will harden and strengthen the feet. Camphor is useful for massaging, thus reducing swelling, while massaging the feet and ankles every night with olive oil, will, as the beauty saying is, keep them young. All care lavished upon the feet tends to keep them in good condition, even if the work consists only of dainty polishing of the toe nails. When these are neglected they harden and coarsen, sometimes chang ing their nature and shape entirely.
 Before ministering to tormenting corns, bunions and callouses the feet must always be soaked in a softening bath, after which they should be scrupulously dried at every point particularly between the toes-and then powdered. A good and cooling foot powder by the way, is one of the greatest comforts one can have in summer, and there is scarcely drug store that does not keep several brands of it. A foot powder which can also be used 10 advantage on per- spring hands, and which is very con. venient for gloves, is made after this formula:
 Phenic acid. ........................10 grams ALCOHOL ......................... 2O grams Stafch ..............".... 200 grams Hlorentlne orris ..150 grams
 Dissolve the acid in alcohol; add the violet essence, then the starch and orris root
 A special powder for perspiring feet ounces of powdered orris root and five ounces of rice powder. Where the precipitation has an unpleasant odor, however, a powder with lycopodium is better than any other, and such sorts are kept at all drug stores of any size, this condition being recognized as something of disease.
 After the bath, attend to the corns or callouses at once, trimming the nails only as often as is needed They should be cut square across and left a little longer than the flesh. If there are soft corns, several foot baths day are needed, also larger shoes, and in extreme cases it may be necessary to place bits of absorbent cotton wet with some healing lotion or salve be- tween the toes. For relief from blis- ters the excessive pain of corns and other callosities. this simple pomade is highly recommended:
 Melted mutton tallow ..., ,1h ounces Mugwort, freshly gathered and
 DrulSed ...........s............. dramS
 Mix thoroughly and rub the whole foot with it, massaging it well into the skin
 A good bunion lotion is made of two drams each of carbolic acid, glycerin and tincture of iodine.
 Flatfoot is condition much recog-
 
 nized just now, and in severe cases it is as deforming as lemeness. It is not always recognizable at first, only the pain and difficulty in walking be- ing perceptible; but after while the arch of the foot breaks down and then the beauty of it is gone.I So when feeling definite pain in the instep if is wise to wear strOnp-snIed shoes with a stiff spring in the instep, as these will counteract the weak ten dency of the arch. Inner soles with high arches are also sold for the pur- pose, while doctors recommended foot exercises for strengthening the mus cles of the arch and it's supports. But, to go back to the mere com. fort of summer time, the simple things one may do to have more ease with feet whose only failing, maybe, comes with hot weather, extreme cleanliness and proper dressing are the things of