Show powder your feet to keep them warm if any one suffers from cold feet particularly in bed its a trick worth knowing to powder them just before retiring if a man or woman with a poor circulation will ceaf chafe the feet briskly until they get warm and then dust them over liberally with talcum powder or corn starch or of almost any powder for that matter they will be much less likely to feel cold during the night coldness la is due largely to the evaporation of perspiration from the skin for as is well known know at anything which vaporize quickly quick y free zea it is this principle which is era em aloyed when ethyl chloride and similar substances are used for a local anesthetic the talcum powder nhen dusted over the feet operates in two waye it absorbs the perspiration for one thing thine thus thua giving less leas opportunity for evaporation and consequently giving the blood vessels less lea work to do to keep the skin warm arid ami for another thing it fills filla up the pores and thus decreases the excretion of perspiration in very cold days particularly if there la is an epidemic of grip or eld colds e ld around the same plan of using powder on the feet may be used before going out but this should be done more sparingly be came it is 13 not wise to clog up the pores if one is 13 walking in order for the feet to kep in good condition there should shoud be a healthy amount of perspiration to vw uie powder too freely when the feet are too be used is a first elms class way of starting bunions yet it la is better to risk this on occasions of extreme cold than to have cold feet feet thoroughly chilled are a menace to health it has been estimated that from ten to fifteen n per cent of all the sickness that effects americans americana in winter time cornea comes from cold or damp feet one may use powder then but only when needed and certainly not all the time tut rut at night when the feet have litile lit ie or no work to do there is corn com ively ly no danger and many people who now how find cold cod feet in bed a great discomfort it may even keep 0 one e awake w if find great relief through this very timple remedy ex |