American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . teness is always to be insisted upon, and broth-ers and sisters should be made to study each othershappiness. This will make them agreeable inlarger circles. Politeness often contributes moreto ones success iu life than brains or capital. Foot Warmers. Many people suffer more in the winter from coldfeet than from any other cause. The feet are easilykept warm while exercising, bat in a sitting posture,while riding iu a carriage, or at home, there is muchinconvenience and exposure to taking cold. Furinvalids it is especially important
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . teness is always to be insisted upon, and broth-ers and sisters should be made to study each othershappiness. This will make them agreeable inlarger circles. Politeness often contributes moreto ones success iu life than brains or capital. Foot Warmers. Many people suffer more in the winter from coldfeet than from any other cause. The feet are easilykept warm while exercising, bat in a sitting posture,while riding iu a carriage, or at home, there is muchinconvenience and exposure to taking cold. Furinvalids it is especially important that a good cir-culation of the blood should be kept up at the ex-tremities. Those ancient and time-honored devicesto remedy cold feet, the junk bottle and the stonejug filled with hot water, often led to petty disas-ters, more vexatious than perilous. The corkswould fly out or get luosc aud make a bad matterworse. Yankee ingenuity has improved upon theseprimitive inventions, and we have in fig. 1 a vesselholding about two quarts of water, quite as couven-. T WARMER. iently handled as the bottle, aud the cork insertedupon the tup so that if it fly out under pressure ofsteam there is no danger of leakage. This is a veryconvenient article for thebed of au invalid or forthe carriage in a cold da} J is another form ofpjo. 2 the same article. It pre- sents a larger surface tothe feet aud is more convenient for use while sit-ting. If wrapt in cloths or sheepskiu with thewool on, it will retain its heat for a long heated stone or brick has beeu improved uponby cutting slabs of soap-stone into convenientsizes, and putting handlesupon them. They aremuch neater in appear-ance, and are always athand. Fig. 3. Aside fromthe suffering which thesearticles prevent, there can be no doubt of their use-fulness even for those in health. It is much letterfor a robust mau to ride with comfortable feet, thanto be beuumbed with cold. It is by timely atten-tion to little things that the
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