Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1884 — Valuable Hints. [ARTICLE]

Valuable Hints.

When ice is required at night for a sick person, break it into small pieces, and if it be scarce and care must be taken to prevent its melting, put into a soup plate, cover with another plate, and put between two feather pillows. Never wear a good woolen dress into, the kitchen without the protection of a large apron. N<s flannel that has not been carefully washed, and is not perfectly soft and fleecy, should ever touch the skin of an infant. We never had any patience with a mother or nftrse who would stick pins carelessly into her dress, collar, or ribbon, thereby inflicting painful wounds upon her innocent victim. Not a pin, excepting a safety pin, should be used bout a child, and when buttons will per■ria the oflice of pins they should be de to do so. To mothers, aunties, or sisters who do up the school luncheon for the youngsters :,pray make it as attractive in appearance as possible. There is truly nothing very attractive about a thick piece of dry bread and butter and a cookie, all rolled in a piece of coarse brown paper, washed down by a drink from the cup that “goes the rounds.” Such a luncheon will often impair the appetite of a fastidious or delicate child, and he will go without rather than eat it A little care in the cutting of the bread; the doing up of the cookies or crullers in tissue or white paper; the sauce or custard put into a pretty cup, and all wrapped in a clean white napkin viihm a bright tin pail, or, better still, a pretty lunch basket, will, by the pleasure it gives the child, well repay the ?xtra care and thought— Rural New Yorker.