rn to and from school they should be taken off at
once when in school or at home. Wearing rubbers prevents free
evaporation of the natural secretion of the skin, keeps the
feet moist and invites colds and catarrh. In damp weather, or when
children play during winter months, they should be shod with stout shoes
with cork insoles.

The same argument applies to storm coats of rubber, water-proof
material. They should not be worn as overcoats all day, but only when
going to and from school or business when it is actually storming.

Underclothing or hosiery should not be heavy enough to cause moisture of
the skin. Health demands a dry skin at all times. The necessary degree
of body heat should be attained by the quality of the outer clothing,
not by the quantity of the underclothing. Many men and women wear heavy
underclothing which causes moisture when indoors, with the result that
they get surface chills when they go outside if the weather is cold and
as a result catch cold. The underclothing should be just heavy enough to
be comfortable indoors and the extra warmth necessary when outside
should be supplied by a good overcoat or furs.

F. Direct Infection.--A baby may catch cold if kissed or "hugged" by
an adult who has a cold.

Catching cold while bathing is possible, but scarcely probable, if
ordinary precautions are taken. It is very bad practice to permit
children to use one another's handkerchiefs or the handkerchief of an
adult. Certain children are predisposed to attacks of "cold in the head"
or acute coryza or nasal catarrh (these being the medical names for this
condition). Sometimes this is an inherited characteristic. There is no
doubt, however, that most of these children acquire the habit by bad
sanitary and hygienic surroundings. These children do not as a rule get
enough fresh air. They are kept indoors most of the time in stuffy,
overheated, badly ventilated rooms, unless the weather is absolutely
perfect. The windows in their bedrooms are always kept closed, because
they are "liable to catch cold." They are overdressed and perspire
easily and as a result "catch cold." These conditions all tend to create
an unhealthy condition of the nasal mucous membrane and of the throat,
and this is rendered worse if the child lives in a damp,
changeable climate, such as that of New York City. In these susceptible
children the exciting cause of an attack may be trivial; exposure, cold
or wet feet, inadequate head cov