Cold Toes.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 115, 28 April 1888, Page 2

Cold Toes.

,'• r— — ♦ Owing to the. unpleasant fact of the impecuniositj of the Feilding\ State School Committee (yet to be elected) the children attending that school this winter have a reiy good chance of flitting with 4 cold "toes during their

hours of tuition. It may be hardly | aißCQssary ibr us to point out that such | a Condition of bodjjei not at all con- j ' to the^bsdrption of wisdom or Riming ac it flows tvpta. the founts by a bberal Government. Ecptioaiy is a glorious thing— in the Abstract, but sometimes it is a cruel hardship practically, especially m the cases of youug children cooped up in school, frozen with the qol.d .to BavftA. few pounds worth of firewood. As very many of the scholars have to tramp long distances, in all sorts of weather, over country roads which,, though good enough for all ordinary traffic, are too wet and muddy for children to walk on without getting their feet thoroughly soaked, however well shod they may be, they have afterwards to sit wet and uncomfortable until released from their attendance. From this cause no doubt springs n?any of the numerous deseases which too often prove fatal to children, or lay the foundations which attend the sufferer from youth to manhood, and from mamhood to the grave;;; AUi; these evil consequences to some two or three* hundreds; children: .isnay ; : be averted by the good people of Feilding joining together and subscribing about three or four pounds,; whi<?h> sum ris all that is necessary to buy enough firewood to make the schoolrppmK warm and comfortable in the cold months of winter. 50 It, would, be »a g-ood plan for. parents to send a shilling, a sixpence, or even a few coppers, according as their circumstances in .life/enable them; by their childr^nfto wards so. dbsemng an object. >