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market and there are also dusting powders which can be shaken into the
socks and used together with the ointments, and the whole thing if
vigorously attacked should not take very long to clear up. My point,
however, is why do some skins seem to invite this fungoid growth and
some do not, and here I believe it is a lot to do with the health of the
skin.
People do, particularly in summer time, need to take their shoes
and socks off. What would happen to your hands if you went about with
leather gloves on all the time, and particularly in summer time ? People
should wear at least two pairs of socks every day and not wear any one
pair of shoes throughout the whole of the day.
If these things were done the health of the skin of the feet would
be much better than it is to-day and we should have less Athlete's Foot.
Question:—Should a child be forced to drink milk and eat
"things that are good for him" if he really dislikes them ?
Answer:—The answer is definitely "No," even if it be cabbage
which is so good for children and which, alas, so many of them detest.
I was once told that I was going to be asked officially as to whether
children who would not eat their cabbage (or whatever the vegetable was)
should be allowed to have the apple tart or such other sweet as followed.
I am very happy that although I had been warned of this question it was
never actually put to me, and the reason why I did not want to answer
this question officially is because the situation should not arise.
I had lots of fads when I was a boy at home, and I was told when I
went away to say I did not like this and did not like that, but I had not
been away from home very long before I was glad enough to eat
everything.
Most of the fads which children show have really been implanted
in them by those who are looking after them, and however unpopular it
makes me, I must say it is generally their mothers.
I suppose Cod Liver Oil is one of the most difficult things to persuade
a child to take, but after many years of experience I am convinced
it is the pained look on the face of the mother who has to give it to her
child, rather than to the inherent qualities of the Cod Liver Oil itself
which makes the child detest it.
It is amazing at our Day Nurseries how these fads disappear, and
I do wish we had more places so that only children who chiefly suffer
from these fads might feed together with other children, because I know
from long experience of children in hospital that they copy one another
like sheep following one another, and that when once you can get a leader
to start the meeting children will eat almost anything.
Children are very accommodating and they will eat well nigh
anything if it is put before them in the right way, but if they do detest
it, it does make them feel sick, and if they feel sick when they are eating
it, it does not do them half the good it otherwise would.
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