Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-10-23

Care of the Feet and Corn Troubles
When l see a young woman on
the street with the heels of her fine
shoes something less than -four
inches high and with the weight of
her body flung on her toes and the
ball of her foot, I say to myself.
your corns are giving you trouble.
When grown people complain in my
hearing of bunions and scalding heat
around them 1 again say to myself,
make you very uncomfortable be-
cause your shoes have been built for
looks and not for comfort"
Nearly every country newspaper
in nearly all Of it's issues, has pic
tures-X-ray pictures of the contor-
lions of the bones of the human feet
and other pictures showing how a
well-cared for foot should appear.
If we know the difference between
crooked bones and plain, natural
bones we also understand that the
human family has a sight of trouble
with poorly cared for feet-judging
by the attention that our newspapers
feel Obliged to offer to the reader
on crooked bones and corn troubles.
How many people are you init
mately acquainted with who never
complain of corns or bunions or
otherwise painful feet? 1 have lived
long time and the only ones I can
remember are children or colored
folks who have gone barefooted the
most of their days.
There are thousands of working
girls and 5Hhto older wageearners s., who
wearing high-heeled, fashionable
shoes. who are more than uncom-
Portable, they are in pain and so
restless toward the close of the day
that they are eager to get home and
get into comfortable old shoes, until
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night.
Many folks who look spick and
span can be just as miserable as
their envious neighbors can wish
them to be with hard corns, soft
corns, tight shoes and cramped toes.
remember a very fine Washington
City lady. once upon a time, who
of hats and gloves and the most ele-
CANT of foot-gear, who confided to
me her unhappiness with painful
feet. Of course she must go and
dance and be on dress parade, for
she had the money and had come
to the Capital City to splurge in
first-clasS company
I asked her to show me her feet.
and maybe L could prescribe for
them, as l also had a corn on one of
my little toes, that almost made
me "turnt fits"-if L walked too long
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She shucked off the beautiful
shoes and stocking-before my par
for fire. and the memory of her
blush, greenish foot-skin, still re-
mains with me. The blood had been
compressed until the root looked
actually dark and discolored-and 1
could easily understand that pride
had done her a turn---because she
wanted to show up pretty little feet.
Now. I am going to tell My Coun-
try Home family what I prescribed
for her corns, at the same time in
forming her that it would be wise
for her to adopt bedroom slippers,
until her feet were restored to their
natural color.
For nearly half century my corn
on my little toe had been annoying
at times and l learned by using it,
that nitrate of silver, generally
known as Lunar-caustic, could be
easily and safely applied to a corn
and although it would darken the
sound skin around the corn, it would
take out the pain. and finally the
corn itself would scale off. and stay
away, until I punished myself again
by hard walking. and too much
standing at time-which 1 had to
do some times.
[ used little mop made of
silver of wood. and Ntt4s cation