Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1883 — To Cure Cold Feet. [ARTICLE]

To Cure Cold Feet.

Philadelphia Ledger. People who write or sew all day, or rather those who take but little exercise, may warm their cold feet without going to the fire. All that is necessary is to stand erect and very gradually to lift one’s self up upon the tips of the toes, so as to put all the tendon’s of the foot at full strain. This is not to jump up and down, but simply to rise—the slower the better —upon tiptoe, and remain standing as long as possible, then gradually coming to the natural position. Repeat thin several times, and by the amount of work the tips of the toes are made to do in sustaining the body’s weight a sufficient and lively circulation is set up. ' Even the half-frozen car-driver can carry thin plan out. It is one rule of the “Swedish movement” system; and, as motion warmth is much better than fire-warming, persons -wh6 suffer with cold feet at night can try thteplan just before retiring to rest.