Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1878 — Winter Clothing for Children. [ARTICLE]

Winter Clothing for Children.

Every one must remark that a favorite article of winter clothing for children is a comforter swathed around the neck. This is a great error; the feet and the wrists are the proper members to keep warm; the face and throat will harden into a healthy indifference to cold; but that muffler, exchanged for an extra pair of thick socks and knitted gloves, would preserve a boy or girl really warm and well. Bronchitis and sore throat have declined 50 per centum since the absurd use of high collars and twice-round neckerchiefs went out of fashion; and if the poor would take better care of their children’s feet half the infantile mortality would disappear. It only costs a trifle to put a piece of thick felt or cork into the bottom of a boot or shoe, but the difference is often considerable between that and a doctor’s bill, with perhaps the undertaker’s beside.—Green Mountain Freeman.