Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1910 — ABOUT THE BABY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ABOUT THE BABY

Food for the Baby. Make a thin paste with two tablespoonfuls of flour and boil it fn a quart of water for fifteen minutes (pour paste in water while it is boiling). Then skim half pint of cream off a quart of milk. To this cream add one and one-half pints of the above gruel and two tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar. If milk sugar can be obtained substitute four tablespoonfuls of it in the place of the granulated. This amount Is for twenty-four hours, onequarter of a pint to be given every two and one-half hours as a feeding. If the baby won’t retain the milk, feed it the plain gruel mixed with the sugar. This is an old nurse’s recipe and has stood the test of time, bringing little ones back to strength and health when all other foods have failed. Back to tbe Curve**. 'Couturiers are following closer the lines of the figure than at the beginning of the season. That is to say that now since Parisians have returned from the country and invested in new corsets, their figures are somewhat more reasonable. The corsetiers have decided that they have been murdering the feminine figure long enough, making only lines and angels where curves ought to be. However, things have not yet adjusted themselves, and the normal figure will not be with us until next spring. ' Only Woman Sargean. Dr. Rose Ringgold is the only woman contract surgeon in the United States army. When on duty she wears a divided skirt and a uniform coat. She is especially interested in the hospital problem of ah army in the field, and has made a study at the work of the Japanese hospital corps in the war with Russia. Folding; (ha Skirt. To fold a dress skirt properly for .packing and so avoid the crease down the middle of the front breadth, fasten the skirt band and pin the back to the middle of the band in front. Lay the skirt on a table or other flat surfact, right side out. With the front

breadth down. Smooth out all creases and lay folds flat. Then begin at the outer edges and roll each slds toward the center back until the two rolls meet. In this way the hang of the skirt is not injured, there are no wrinkles and the front breadth is smooth and flat. If the' skirt is too long for the trunk fold it near the top and place a roll of tissue paper under the fold. Fop Invalid*. Beef Juice.—Take lean round steak. Heat it slightly in a* pan over the fire, then squeeze in a warm lemon squeezer. Season with a little salt. Serve in a colored claret glass, as invalids often object to beef Juice on account of the color. Baked Milk—Put the milk in a Jar, covering the opening with white paper, and bake in a moderate oven until thick as cream. May be taken by the most delicate stomach. Glycerin add Lemon Juice.—Half and half on a piece of absorbent cotton is the best thing to moisten the lips and tongue of a fever-parched patient. Onion Gruel—Boil a few sliced onions in a pint of fresh milk, stirring in a little oat meal and a pinch of salt; boil until the onions become tender, and take at once. I Halrdreanlnjr Style*.

'‘Charlie, dear,” queried the fair maid at the ball park, "why does that man behind the hitter wear such a big bib?” “That,” explained Charlie, "Is to keep his shirt front from getting mussed when the ball knocks his teeth out" —Chicago News. " ~T~ 0»e Way. \ .■A,,.Canadian statesman proposes to solve the woman suffrage problem by giving the ballot to all women who have babies. Next! A Mfsstsslppl woman has Just be* gun a seven years’ term In the penitentiary lor stealing half a pound of batteraad&vaegss. ;

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