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to cause corns, bunions, ingrowing nails and swollen joints. 

 It also makes the natural gait stiff and awkward. Children 

 should wear comfortably fitting boots or shoes, with broad 

 toes and low, wide heels. 



34. Effects of Alcohol and Tobacco on the whole 

 Framework. Individuals vary in form and height, accord- 

 ing to the shape and length of the various bones. The size of 

 the body depends upon the size of the framework. It is not 

 wise to risk our chances to become well developed and manly 

 in appearance, by indulging in habits that are injurious while 

 young. Neither the drinking of alcohol in any of its many 

 forms, nor the using of tobacco in any way, is a manly act, 

 nor does either help in any sense to promote the growth and 

 development of our bodies. 



It has often been observed that children of intemperate 

 parents frequently fail to develop into manhood or woman- 

 hood. They may not be deformed, but their growth is 

 arrested, and they remain small in body and infantile in 

 character. One physician reports a child five years of age, 

 who measured only two feet three inches, and weighed 

 twenty-two pounds ; and he says further, that he has known 

 such children to live to twenty and over, and still remain 

 permanent infants. Such are examples of a species of degen- 

 eracy, and are evidences of the visiting of the sins of the 

 fathers upon the children, which may extend even unto the 

 third and fourth generations. 



