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Show About Storking for Cold 'Weather. One of the things that health writers are fond of advising other people to do is to wear stockings of merino or of wool of some kind during the winter. And so a great many persons who are accustomed accus-tomed to let other people do their thinking think-ing for them religiously put on woolen stockings as soon as cold weather conies, and then go painfully about for several months wondering what in the world ails their feet. For something usually dm's begin to ail tho feet of these people as soon as they get them bound up in wool. A chiropodist who treats as many sick feet as any chiropodist in thin city says so. Persons whoso feet are sensitive ought never to wear wooleu stockings, he h:ivs, as these induce constant con-stant perspiration nnd bo aggravate the sensitiveness. Any suffering in the feet, fcuch as i comes from corns or bunions, is a hundred hun-dred times increased by tho heat and tenderness induced by wearing such heavy footwear. If the feet are unduly cold, the trouble is not half so likely to be that the foot covering is inadequate ns it is that the circulation in the lower i extremities is poor. Moro exercise and 1 cold bathing are what in required, and not more clothing. The leather of the ; rhoe would of itself bo suflicient pro-: pro-: tcction against tho cold, liut tender feet need to bo hardened, and this cau-not cau-not be done while they are kept over-i over-i heated and moist by wearing wool upon ! them. New York Evening Sun. |