Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1885 — 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. ever wear a good woolen dress into the kitchen without the protection of a large apron. No flannel that has not been carefully ••••'!Uv'd. snd is not perfectly soft and it c:, K-ou.u - veil tcueu the bkinof an infant. We never had any patience with a mother or nurse who would stick pins carelessly into her' dress, collar, or ribbon, thereby inflicting painful wounds upon her innocent victim. Not a pin, excepting a sab t / pin, should be used ■bout a child, and when buttons will pernn the ohieo of pin 3 they should be ule 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 Ci okie, 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 Bauce or custard put into a pretty cup, and all wrapped in a clean white napkin within a bright tin pail, or, better still, a pretty lunch basket, will, by the pleasure it gives the child, well repay the extra care and thought.— Rural New | Yorker.

So far from being injured by severe labor, carried on under normal conditions, the brain is improved by it. Metal activity, like muscular exercise, keeps the brain in a healthy state. When, therefore, a man savs ho is suffering from the effects of mental overwork, I want, co kfiow tvhafc his views are. Worry may be one of these; worry is exhaust ing. The worries of life do infi -itclv more f arm than the work of fifpr bow oiiprou soever it may be. —J>r. //. before PhilaueiW*ki Me-Heal Society.