Hints for the busy housewife

1939-05 1939 1930s 50 pages : illustrations HINTS FOR THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE 4. FOOT RULES It is quite impossible to keep a body healthy if the feet are neglected. Being most of the time confined in stockings and then encased in leather, the feet lack ventilation, and if they are not kept clean the resu...

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Institution:MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
Language:English
English
Published: London : Health & Cleanliness Council May 1939
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description 1939-05 1939 1930s 50 pages : illustrations HINTS FOR THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE 4. FOOT RULES It is quite impossible to keep a body healthy if the feet are neglected. Being most of the time confined in stockings and then encased in leather, the feet lack ventilation, and if they are not kept clean the results are very uncomfortable and unpleasant. [photograph] Keep your feet healthy. A warm soapy foot-bath is the best thing you can give your feet, and, if your health is good, follow up with a cold-water rinse. This hardens the feet and makes them better able to resist summer's heat and winter's cold. Keep the toe-nails cut, and cut them square. This will prevent those very painful things — ingrowing nails. It will also help to prevent holes in the stocking toe. Change your Stockings constantly. — They must be frequently washed in warm soapy water if the feet are to be at ease. A hard, ridgy stocking or a lumpily darned one does nearly as much harm as a tight shoe. If you wear ribbed stockings let them have plain soles for comfort. Stockings which have been worn for violent exercise like tennis, hockey, or dancing should not be worn twice, as they grow quite hardened with sweat. Wash the feet — if not the body — at once after Page Thirty-eight 177/5/8/1
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English
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publishDate May 1939
publisher London : Health & Cleanliness Council
spellingShingle National Association of Teachers of Home Economics and Technology
Pamphlets of the Health and Cleanliness Council
Health care
Housekeeping
Hints for the busy housewife
title Hints for the busy housewife
topic National Association of Teachers of Home Economics and Technology
Pamphlets of the Health and Cleanliness Council
Health care
Housekeeping
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