| Show courting DISEASE AND DEATH soflona of a fanny fashionable way of dressing children how cosning those children look with their bare little legal exclaimed a alenne a day connecticut pretty girl on attention to three calling or two ago youngsters who though the air was bit the street in ter cold were playing oneff them was a small girl of about with skirts so short that her seven years in their nudity fairy limbs were visible from mid thigh to three inches above the shoe where the sock began taghi growled the physician who in fsr companion ladys was the young promenade yes she said it looks rather cold but its the swell thing now you know and awfully Engli coffins are stylish too I 1 suppose why what can you mean simply this responded the man 0 medicine of all the idiotic notions with the one you call I 1 my attention to is the most gibbering and draveling driveling dri the ground on which it i is defended is that it makes children hardy to go barelegged in winter As a jeatter af pf fact it is an outrage on the laws of nature go up to the regions of the arctic circle and you will find the children playing about in the snow with their bodies very nearly unclad but their arms and legs are always warmly wrapped now why is this 1 I cant imagine then let me teu you it is because the trunk of the body being the seat of the vital organs is naturally warmer and has a more vigorous circulation than the limbs why is it that your feete and hands on a frosty day get cold first obviously for the reason that they are most remote from the heart they need protection likewise the arms and legs require covering most keep the limbs warm tody will be warm that is ane principle and it is far as it goes but already we have largely for fashions sake children running about in an atmosphere mo sphere that is below freezing with their bodies warmly clad and their poor little legs exposed 1 but they look very healthy undoubtedly were they not healthy children they woul 1 haye succumbed to this abominable practice in dress long ago but no health is so robust as to be able to afford to invite pneumonia and other kindred ills which are always ready to attack the most sturdy person who risks imprudence for parents to bend their children abroad so exposed is to extend a cordial invitation to disease and death of course that does not matter however if it is really english ahat bort of shoes aro those you are wearing shoes said the pretty girl somewhat taken by why they are quite new and a very nice pair I 1 think do you grunted the physician what right havu you pray to wear shoes c lt thi acason ith soles an eighth of an inch thick mure colds are caught in that daythan in any other nat so much on a day like aliis as on a warm day you said a few moments ago that you had a cold probably you caught it during the last warm we had you went out with such a pair of shoes on the temperature of the air around you was about 55 dees the bricks you walked upon were evaporating moisture evaporation hakea cold that is the reason why cologne which evaporates quickly makes you cool when you rub it upon your face so whiled our body was warmed by the sun your feet were being refrigerated at a temperature below freezing bo suit a cold you hear people say every day cant imagine where I 1 caught this cold I 1 have not been imprudent in any way that of the secret of it ia simply that they have been wearing thin soled shoes suppose that the sole becomes damp even though the foot is not made wel the water furnishes the best possible medium for conducting the heal out of the body the moral 0 all this my dear young lady is to wear shoes wit thick soles throughout the winter season Washington Star |
