p. 47 | Keeping Children’s Feet Dry

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Feb 6, 1879

Keeping Children’s Feet Dry

LIFE-LONG discomfort and sudden death often come to children through the inattention or carelessness of parents. A child should never be allowed to go to sleep with cold feet; the thing to be last attended to is to see that the feet are dry and warm. Neglect of this has often resulted in dangerous attacks of croup, diphtheria, or a fatal sore throat. Always on coming from school, on entering the house from a visit or errand in rainy, muddy, or thawy weather, the child should remove its shoes, and the mother should herself ascertain whether the stockings are the least damp. If they are, they should be taken off, the feet held before the fire, and rubbed with the hands until perfectly dry, and another pair of stockings and another pair of shoes put on. The reserve shoes and stockings should be kept where they are dry, so as to be ready for use on a minute's notice.