Benefits of Going Barefooted.
Consider the following, taken from the> London * Lancet,' very sensible and worthy the respectful attention of parents. I have ever found the writer's views confirmed by personal experience with my own children : — 'Children who are allowed to go barefooted enjoy almost perfect immunity from the danger of "cold" by accidental chilling of the feet, and they are altogether healthier and happier than those who, in obedience to the usages of social life, have their lower extremities permanently invalided and, so to say, carefully swathed and put away in rigid cases. As regards the poorer classes ot children there can be no sort of doubt in the mind of any one that it is incomparably better they should go barefooted than wear boots that let in the wet, and stockings that are nearly always damp and foul.' There could be added to the above the. testimony of many eminent physicians,, who give as an additional reason the impossibility of a child's foot growing naturally shod, as it has to be, with the conventional shoe.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 4
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177Benefits of Going Barefooted. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 4
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