Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1871 — Corns—Take Care of Your Children’s Feet. [ARTICLE]

Corns—Take Care of Your Children’s Feet.

“ Oh, how my corns do hurt me!" Who has not heard this exclamation a thousand times, and from a thousand different persons ? It is rare to see an American, man or woman, who is not troubled with corns. Though not dangerous, they are & most painful infliction. They frequently cause agonizing pain, and still more frequently make walking inconvenient and difficult. Letany one who has suffered from corns for years look back and see how constantly little duties which require for their performance personal locomotion have been neglected from this cause. They diminish the enjoyment, the comfort and the usefulness of every one who has them. And yet corns are entirely unnecessary. They are never an evil which could not have been avoided. They come from too tight or ill fitting shoes. The “heathen Chinee ” idea that excessively small feet are essential to beauty, is the prolific mother of all the ills that arise from corns. Now when grown-up people are so silly as to pinch their feet out of their natural proportions, wo need not waste our sympathy for the sufferings which they experienceln consequence. It is their own deliberate doing, and let them take the pams and penalties. What interests ns chiefly in the matter is the children. We protest against incasing their feet in shoes which confine them in too narrow limits, or forcibly change their natural shape. The silly pride of .a vain mother has often imposed upon a Child the Infliction of corns, from which she was obliged to limp all the way through life. ... Let unnaturally small Aekbelooked upon as an evidence, not Of eeiituity, but of .nu.il brains, and this mischief will soon be remedied. 4 „ , „ It always seemed eruel to ns to hopple lambs, ltow much more cruel is tt to “hopple” children with shoes which spoil their feet, their ftm, and their tea** pern, and from the injurious effects of which they will never be entirely free,- ****** —, ML A ointlkman redding at the South End, Boston, who lost his wife some five or six months ago, has paid a “Orist eveiy month since fbr flowers to pwhpw hex grave. ■