Year: 1865

If Il we're justifable to use hard words
at ALL the writer hereof would think it
! exeusable when be hears women complain
ing Of all the ills conceivable, and sees
them 60 into the streets, or out to walk
with only thin shoes and thin cotton stock
ings on their feet, and know they have no
adequate protection for their limbs. But


that is not the worst feature It is far
worse to. see them and their children out
equally exposed. 1t is murder in the FIST
degree. We happen to know some women
who have recovered health by learning
how to make themselves comfortable =
how to clothe their persons so. as to keep
the temperature of all parts of the body
uniform. And We have known scores of
poor women who went prematurely TO
their last rest because they never learned
the comfort of being warmly clad. There
are plenty of inhuman mothers left, who
will sacrifice a child's health in order that
she may mook pretty" or look as well as
somebody's else child does. There are
very few days pass that We do not see
illustrations Of this criminal vanity that
not only make our heart ache, but bitter
words come into our mouth. Feeling
thus, we want the women who read the
Rural to carefully peruse the following
from the pen of DR.. Dio Lewis: 1t is
sound common sense. 1t is truth.


"During the damp and cold season de-
icient dress of the feet and legs is a fruit
ful source of disease. The head, throat,
and liver are perhaps the most frequent
sufferers. The legs and feet are far from
the central part of the body. They are
not IN great mass like the trunk, but ex-
tended and eGveloped by the atmosphere
Besides, they ARE near the damp, cold
earth. For these and other reasons, they.
require extra covering. If we would Sc
cure the highest physiological conditions,
we must give our extremities more dress
than the body. We men wear upon
our legs, in the eoldest season, but two
thicknesses of cloth. The body has at
least six. Women put on them four
thicknesses under the shawl, which, with
Its various doublings, furnishes several
more then, over all, thick, padded furs;
while the legs have one thickness Of cotton
under balloon.


"They constantly come to me about
their headache, palpitatiof Of the heart,
and congestion of the liver. Yesterday,
one said to me, Gall my blood is in my
head and chest. My head and chest go
bumpety bump, my heart goes bumpety-
bump" l asked, Chow are your feet 2''
"Chunks of ice, she replied. I said to
her, IF you so dress your legs and feet
that the blood can't get down into them,
where can it go2 It ean'tgo out visiting.
It must stay in the system somewhere.
Of course the chest and head must have
an excessive quantity. So they go bumpe-
ty-bump, and so they must go, until you
dress your legs and feet in such way
that they shall get their share of blood
In the coldest season of the year I leave
Boston for bit Of tour before the ly-
ceum-going as far as Philadelphia, and
riding much in the night without an
overcOat; but 1 give my legs two or three
times their usual dress. During the
coolest whether men may wear, in addi-
ton to their usual drawers, a pair Of
chamois-skin drawers with great advan-
tage. When we ride in a sleigh, or the
cars, where do we sufer2 In our legs,
Of course. Give me warm legs and feet,
and I'll hardly thank you for an over
coat


"My dear madam, have you a headache,
a sore throat, palpitation of the heart,
congestion of the liver, or indigestion ?
Wear one, two, or three pairs Of warm
wooden stockings, and thick, warm shoes,
with more or less reduction in the amount
of dress about your body, and you will
obtain the same relief permanently that
you would derive temporarily from a warm
foot-bath.


81 must not forget to say that thin
layer of india-rubber cemented upon the
b0ot.sole will do much to keep the bot
toms Of our feet day and warm


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