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About The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1893)
SU, f -1, I mnmsm THE ETHICS OF NURSING, Bugffeitlotii About the Sickroom That Hhoulil lie OlMervo. lit Any Coat. First and foremost It 1b necessary to nrry out to the letter every direction of the doctor, especially in regard to medi cine and diet. Strict obedienw to biB or ders and their careful following out will insure to the patient the beat ram Its from his skill. A large, sunny room, If possible, should be selected for the invalid. The room should be kept thoroughly ventilated and at a temperature not lower than 68 degs. or higher than 70 clegs. Keep the air the patiwit breathes as pure as the ex ternal air without chilling him. Keep the upper sash of the window low ered a few Inches, avoiding, of course, a draft. Let the patient be well covered and air may lie freely admitted without the least danger, Fur more persons are killed by the want tbaa by an excess of fresh air. In giving a person in bed a sponge bath, either for cleanliness or to lower the tem perature in fever, be sure not to uncover too large a surface at once. Pin a soft shawl, warm, but not too heavy, around the shoulders, fastoniug it at the back and remove the nightdress under that. Put the hand under the shawl and sponge the skin, a little at a time, being very careful not to have the sponge too wet, and dry with a towel. Proceed this way until the whole body is bathed. The teeth should be washed with a small piece of clean rag dipped in fresh cool water. A wonmn'R hair should be combed every day if she can Htand it without too much fatigue. If allowed to go from day to day it becomes so matted that it is almost im possible to dlHentunglu it. Braided in two braids it is far mure comfortable than when arranged in one, for each braid can lie drawn well to one hide, avoiding the bard ridge one braid sometimes makes, and which becomes very tiresome to lie upon. If, unfortunately, the hair becomes tan gled, a little sweet oil will loosen it and render it more cosily combed. Use a coarse comb, combfng gently downward from a point near the ends of the hair and gradu ally approaching the head at each move ment. This will remove all the loose hairs without needless pulling. Be particularly neat and precise regard ing the cleanliness of the sickroom. Do not, however, make the mistake of using a feather duster, as this only transfer! the dust from oue place to another instead of removing It entirely. The furniture and woodwork should be wiped with a damp cloth. If there is a carpet In the room brush it lightly each day with a broom lightly wetted to keep the dust from ris ing In the air. Should the patient be allowed to eat fruit, a few grapes or an orange peeled and divided may be kept on a plate over a bowl of ice. The coolness thuB obtained causes the (rult to be much more grateful to the palate. To obtain cracked ice without un necessary poundiug and In the presence of the Invalid, wrap a small lump in a folded towel and use a long stout pin to break off nie pieces. If the point is pressed firmly near the edgo of the block fragment aaa be easily separated. In preparing a meal for any one whose appetite is delicate care should be taken to make it look as enticing as possible. The tray should bedecked out in its snowiest, daintiest cover. The glass, silver and china should absolutely shine, while the repast itself should consist of a few choice bits; not a large portion of each viand, but each delicately and temptingly served. There is nothing that so quickly dis gusts a feeble appetite as a quantity of food presented at oue time. Above all, do not worry the patient re garding what he shall out or drink. Pre pare something he is known to like and of which the doctor approves without any previous comment. It is your duty to think for your charge. Anticipate his wants before he has had time to express them. Do not fidget him with questions regard ing whether he is too hot or too cold, whether he prefers beef tea or chicken broth for his luncheon. Philadelphia Times, How to Help the Doctor, A well known doctor once complained to the writer that he had the greatest trouble when treating sick children in getting any lucid and helpful resume of their symp toms from day to day from the mother. "Here is a case in point," said he. "A few days ago a young mother came to me about her little boy, who hud what sho called a 'pathetic little cough,' Now pathos in a cough is a symptom of which pathology takes no note. So I asked more detluite reticulars. 'What kind of a cough is it?' asked again. " 'Oh, such a pathetlo cough,' she an swered. 'But 1b It a loose cough, or a wheezing cough, or a tight cough, or a bark cough V I persisted. " Tra sure I don't know,' she said, sadly pUBKled, 'but It is a sad little cough.' And that is a fair sample of the way a great many physicians flud themselves puarled about babies. The mothers or nurses eera to have so little skill in interpreting their symptoms," Women and mothers, this thing ought not to be. A young mother with a first baby may find herself a little puzzled for the first few weeks to recognize the most striking symptoms In a baby's Illness, but she ought soon to be able to make a very intelligent diagnosis of ordinary ills. She ought to be able to tell whether the baby Is In acute pain or not, and In most oases where the pain is located; whether his cry She ought to be able to take his tempera ture and his pulse beats as accurately as a pnysioian, to uisonnunate nis eougns tutu his war of breathing. The condition of his bowels should be significant to her also. ters that come with a little attention in washing and a little knowledge in Inter 1 1 reunion and brains. St. Louis Globe Detuocrat, n Hie Mothers of Strong Men. Dr. 6. Weir Mitchell, one o:' the highest authorities in the world on nervous dis eases and a profound studc... of life, re gards women as the physic. I trustees of the race, and says that cultivation of the brain at the expense of the body is an ines timable evil to future generations. "No-! ture has her seasons of rest and her seasons of productiveness," the famous physician once said. ".The soil after harvest lies fal-1 low for a year or two or It loses its rich ness.' You uever knew a great man a man of powerful brain and masterful energy, I mean bom of a weak woman. Superiority and strength of mind in men come almost Invariably from the mother. The father may transmit traits as he often transmits weaknesses, but the mind of the male child almost always derives its real force from the mother. If she have a strong character, sterling virtues and has lived a simple, healthy life, her son will reap the richer harvest of vital and mental strength, because neither has been exhausted by the mother. The father's character Is apt to reappear in the daughters." The view is one of such Interest and Im portance that every one will find something In his or her own experience and observa tion that will bear upon It. The thought back of it is that women should be edu cated and their minds cultivated, but neither overeducated, as at some female colleges, nor overcultivated or overstrained by work or society; that their lives should be so ordered that a surplus of mental and physical strength should be stored as the ground derives frultfulness and Htorea fu ture wealth by lying fallow and producing nothing for a time. New York Press. Working Women and Their Place Today. The proportion of women whose daily lot is hard labor of some kind or other is not greater now than it has been in other pe riods. On the contrary, it is probably smaller. But at no former time has the wage earning woman been so distinct a so cial and economic factor. Woman's work was formerly hedged in very closely by do mestic conditions, Her life was a part ol the life of some family, and as an unat tached industrial unit she was practically nonexistent. Newer conditions have obviously changed all this, and every city lias its army ol young working women seeking an inde pendent livelihood, Just as It has Itslargei army of young meu. The army of young workingmen in great towns young men wholly unattached and fighting the battle of life upon their individual resources- has not been very long recognized hs a dis tinct social element, and one for which pe culiar povision should 1 made. But it recognition has been more general, and there has been better provision made foi it than for the other army of young work ing women. Yet the position of the young woman is much the mure difficult. The kiuds of work open to women are -not half so nu merous as those that young men can enter. And women's wages average little more than half as much as their brothers. The practical difficulties in the way of procur ing employment are especially great foi young women, and conventional obstacle lie everywhere. The rights, the needB, the wants of working girls cull for ogitutioL and for organized action. And in many ways the movement has begun. Albert Shaw in Scri oner's. How to Cure a Nervous Headache, Vou know that means a nervous head ache and a night of agony unless some thing is done quickly. Try this: Slip off your bodice and bare your neck. Twist your hair into a loose knot on the top of your head. Then take a sponge and a basin of hot water just as hot as you can bear it. Pass the hot wet sponge slowly and steadily over the face and forehead foi eight or ten minutes, keeping the sponge as hot as it can be borne. By that time your face will look and feel as if it were parboiled. But don't worry. Then bathe the back of the neck as yon have done the face, carrying the sponge each time well up the back of the head. Keep this up for the same length ot time; then, without looking at yourself in the glass, bocause that would be sure to disquiet you, dry your face and neck softlj and go and lie down flat on your back. Close your eyes and think of just this one thing, How heavy you are on the couch and how easily It supports you. That 4s really an important part of the cure. Lie there for half an hour, if you don't fall asleep, as you probably will. Then get up and take the deferred look in the glass. The tired look has gone; tne muscles have regained their tone; the wrinkles have disappeared, xou look like your younger sister. Best of all the darting pain in the head and the pessimism of the soul have gone too, Boston ileraio. What Next In Woman's Sooletlei? Woman's societies will reach their high est goal when the prefatory "woman's" ii discarded. Exolusive organization on the part of one Bex has reached the extreme where the upward turn now leads back, on the line of male inclusions meaning sim ply the union of husbands and wives in the common cause of benetiting numanity. Doubtless thousands of busy men today, anathetio regarding general human wel fare, would bound to their place at the wheel if appealed to by wives converted to the new mission and needing brawny aid. The best way to disarm an opponent is to throw the oause on his hands, appealing for his Bupnort. Let such titles as "Woman's Suffrage association" give place to the "United So cieties for Woman's Jf ranohise." There is no fear but that the modest source from which all these benefactions have sprung will be ever and gratefully remembered. ! But in the full realization of social forma accomplished only by the additiot. of man's effective power, women working for that end can well afford to relinquish the Initiatory which at most oan no more than propose a higher mission for them and a new progress for au. Margaret w. Nobis In Chautauquan, "Fluffy" Girl and Their War. A young man, speaking of a girl to a matron of his acquaintance, recently said:, "Oh, she's one of those fluffy girls." ,' "My dear boy," said the matron, "what on earth is a fluffy girl1" "Why, don't you know?" replied the young man. "A girl who has blue eyes, golden hair, brilliant coloring and look like a bit of Dresden china. A girl who If always hitched up in a big armchair and has a plaintive little tale of woe to confide to you not to you, my dear madam, bui to me, to some man. The girl who wears charming gowns, all frills and ribbons, and hopelessly intricate to masculine eyes; who is always delightfully clean, with fresh curled hair; who affects certain per fumes; has curious gestures and modes of expression: who wears tinkling ornaments her wrists ana quantities or rings on her fingers; who abounds in parasols, fani and shawls, which we men carry trailing humbly about in her wake. This is the fluffy girl, and, my dear lady, long expe rience with her has taught me that she usually possesses a temper as fluffy as hex gown." Hartford limes. Potatoes as an Aid In Washing. To wash clothes without fading them, wash and peel Irish potatoes; then grata them into cold water. Saturate the ar ticles to be washed in this potato water and they can then be washed with soap without any running of the color. have taken oil out of carpets with this potato water when simple cold water would make the color run ruinously. Have also set the color in figured black muslins, in colored merinos, in ribbons and other silk goods. Ofteu the potato watercleanses sufficiently without the use of soap; but the latter is necessary, I find, where there is any grease. In such cases (without soap) I take the grated potato itself and rub with a flannel rag. In woolen goods It is necessary to strain the water, else the particles will ad here, but this is not necessary on goods from which they con well be shaken. Cor. Detroit Free Press. Homely Gymnastics. That there is not much sanitary or strengthening influence in the operation of dusting ia evident, and yet many women, disdaining heavier work, reserve this do mestic duty for themselves and waste much time upon it. Muscular motion is of little value unless vigorous and swift. The slow walk and loitering movement do not rouse the blood from its torpidity. The lowliest labor when zealously per formed may be followed by an unexpected hygionic effect. There is the instance of a penniless young man, threatened with fe ver iu a strange country, shipping as a deck hand to return and die among his people. During the voyage he scrubbed away the dirt from the shipboards and with it the disease that had invaded nis life craft. Alice B. Tweedy in Populai Science Monthly. Hues for Pillow Shams. Fashionable bed dressing having vetoed pillow shams, housekeepers owning a sup ply of these squares have sought various methods to utilize them. One woman turned her fine pair of hemstitched linen and embroidered "covers" into tea cloths by adding some gay little buds and pan- sies in naturij colors. She might easily have left them all white, since such tea cloths are equally used for the permanent 6 o'clock tea table as for the occasional one. Another woman converted some of her pretty ones into show pillow slips by add ing a plain side. She kept one pillow thus incased on the family sitting room lounge, 'of which," she said, "we are all so fond that it is seldom vacant, and its stuff pil low cover was difficult to keep clean." Her Point of View in New York Times. A Practical Suggestion. One of the most practical suggestions for service is that of the woman who comes in to work "by the day." There is very much more in this idea of daily service or of employing a woman who, in common parlance, "does day's work," than has ever been fully developed. Washing and scrubbing are at present the principal duties of such workers. But these, al though they represent the hardest labor, cover only a small part of the daily house work. The sweeping and dusting, the sewing, the cooking, the dish washing, the "clear ing up" most interminable of tasks the mending and the chamber work all theso come Into the home life and into the line of a housekeeper's duties. Harper's Bazar. Color of the Bridal Dress. Married in white, you have chosen all right. Married In gray, you will go far away, Married in black, you will wish yourself back. Married in red, you will wish yourself dead. Married in green, ashamed to be seen. ' Married in blue, he will always be true. Married in pearl, you will live in a whirl. Married in yellow, ashamed of your fel low. Married In brown, you will live out of town. Married in pink, your spirit will sink. Old Rhyme. How to Sharpen Carving Knife. A carving knife needs to have a different kind of an edge from a razor. The steel which ordinarily accompanies a carving knife and fork is very well to give a finish ing touch to the edge, but an ordinary whet stone, such as a reaper uses for his scythe or sickle, Is the most useful implement a carver can keep at hand. One or two rubs on each aide of a knife whets it up might ily, and then two or three finishing touches from the steel and the knife is in order to do most excellent execution. New York Telegram, Materials for Children's Dresses, In regard to the material to be used for the clothing of Infants a well Known pny- sician believes that it should be soft, and aa light in weight as possible. For those who can afford it, the flannel made from silk and wool, costing a dollar a yard and upward, or an eiderdown flannel for ueu- cats ohildren, is recommended. In loweii priced materials Canton nannei la sug gested, as it is soft and warm and does not shrink much mwaaoing. new xorx, rose ADMIRAL TRYON'S 8UCCESSOR. Vice Admiral Cnlme-Seymour Comes of a Naval Family. Vice Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Sey-mour, who succeeded the unfortunate Try on in command of the British Mediterra nean sqtnulron, comes of what the English call a naval fam ily. His grandfa ther, Michael Sey mour,captured the French frigate La Thetis in 1808 aft er a gallant en counter with his vessel, the Ame thyst, Forthisbe was made a bar onet and subse quently attained the rank of ad miral. His third son, also named admirai. C1II.ME-6ET- Michael, adopted MutK. the profession of Ms father, rose to the same rank and ob tained the distinction of a 6. C. B. The present admiral is therefore the third of the family to achieve commanding rank in the navy. He succeeded his father In the baronetcy in 1880. The fate of the Victoria has recalled a list of not less than seven similar disasters since the beginning of tbe eighteenth cen tury In which admirals of the English navy nerisbed with their vessels. The first of these disasters occurred in 1703, when Ad miral Beaumont went down in the Mary during a gale in the Downs that destroyed 18 men-of-war and drowned l,suu seamen. Four years later Admiral Sir Claudesley Shovell, who had narrowly escaped from the storm in the Downs, went down with his ship, the Association, during a gale off the coast of Wales. His body was washed ashore and buried in Westminster abbey. Thirty-seven years afterward Admiral Sir John Balchen, in the flagship Victory, was wrecked and lost near the coast of Alder ney. That at least is the supposition, for the truth was never positively learned. Some years later the Victory's rudder was washed up on the beach near Brighton. The historic disaster to the Royal George In 1782 was, like the sinking of the Victoria, due to a blunder worse than a crime. An at tempt was made to heel her over and exam ine her bottom. For this purpose the heavy guns were all removed to one side of the deck. The precaution of stopping her lower deck scupperB was neglected, and the water came in and sank the vessel. There were nearly 900 persons drowned, including Ad miral Kempcnfelt and over 200 women. In 1807 Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, whom NelBon had dubbed "the Bayard of tbe navy," went down in his flagship, the Blenheim, while on the way to the Cape or Good Hope. Rear Admiral Carthew Rey nolds perished with the St. George on the coast of Jutland in 1811, the last disaster of tbe kind in which an admiral perished un til Tryon went down on the Victoria, Ordered to Dance. A recent occurrence recalls a story of a Prussian general who wished to make bis world dance and failed. H is wife's recep tions, for some reason or other, were uncon genial to the youths under bis command and unfreqnentl by them. The general, a strict martinet and the head of a college of cadets, was imprudent enough to re proach them with their shortcomings in this matter and to demand a change in their manners. At his next ball, when all the guests were assembled, the tramp, tramp of marching feet was heard upon tbe staircase; the door was thrown open, and there marched into the room a whole corps of cadet with their (young officer at their bead, halted ana stoou at attention. What is the meaning of IbisJ" shouted the general "The first corps of cadets, to dancing commanded!" replied the youth, saluting though on tirade. "Take them away," screamed the gen eral, beside himself with fury. "Riirht about face, march r was the calm and unmoved answer, and the cadets marched out in tbe same order as they had entered. Londou Spectator. Horse Sense. The other day. while Mr. (i. L. Emrey, of this place, waa away from home his horse got loose in the stable and, gain ing access to the feed chest, overloaded nis stomach with good things and pretty soon was crazy with the pains which colic brings on. He broke out of the stable and ran as fast as his feet would carry him through the streets to the Patterson House, where be had been doctored some time before. The horse by nis actions soon showed himself to be a pretty sick horse, and was taken in charge by Dr. Bechart, who brought mm around ail right. The horse was not very wise in eating too much, but displayed good horse Beuse in hunting np the doctor. Honey brook (Pa.) Ua- zette. Wheat Raising In Meilco. Recent studies into the matter of wheat raising indicate that the high tablelands of Mexico will Boon be used for that purpose. Lack of railroad fa cilities has kept that region from com peting heretofore, but the prospect now is that the railroads will soon be con structed. New York Times. Adirondack Lumber. During last year there were 800.000,000 feet of timber cut in the Adirondack forests. Of the whole quantity two- thirds was made into lumber and the re mainder into paper pulp, and all by the wood pulp mills in the Adirondack re gion, the product being 109,30V tons of wood pulp. Exchange. Why the Grumbler Is Entertaining. No one offers the systematic grumbler the tax of sympathy. He does not want it, moreover. His woes and grievances are his stock In trade. It is an under stood thing that without them he would be a very dull fellow. As it is they save his reputation, and set tbe ball of small talk moving no matter in what direc tion. All the Year Round. mm A Bail Day for Uabblts. Very few persons have ever engaged in such a hunt for rabbit as a party of young men living near Homer partici pated in one day recently. In the absence of all large game and the prohibition as to shooting chickena and quails, the young fanners pass a way the monotony of the wintry days by or- . ganizing hunting parties, which enter . into competition as to which party will bring in the most game by a given time. Usually these competition hunts are be tween the young men of different neigh borhoods, and neighborhood "honor" is a big thing in this country. A very exciting hunt was made by two . parties of farmers living near Homer, which, on account of the number of men engaged and the amount of game bagged, will be household lore in the neighbor hood for many winters. There waa one company of twenty-five men and another of twenty-four men. All had to hare their game in by 7 o'clock in the even ing, and most of tbe men started in quest of "Brer Rabbit" before daylight. "And they gathered them in from the high ways and hedges," for when the count was made in the evening one party had secured 638 rabbits, while the other had slain ISM. making a total of 1,1, A sumptuous supper was spread that night, for which the defeated party had to pay. Then the rabbits were sold and the money divided into three purses, which were presented to tne men who tilled the most rabbits. Jess Doney took first, having captured sixty-nine. Feast Hall had sixty-eight and Edward Brown sixty Probably so large a num ber of rabbits were never before killed by one party in Illinois in one day. Chicago Inter Ocean. No Profit In Money Orders. There does not seem to be any prospect that the money order business can be made to pay a profit to Uncle Sam in future. It was started in I860 with an appropriation by congress of $100,000, and during the first eight months there was a loss of more than $7,000. As the system grew it became more remuner ative to tbe government, until it began to show a margin of gain about ten years age. For tbe last three years, however, there has been a loss on it, mainly be cause the average sum sent by money order has diminished. The average cost to the government of a money order, whether for a small or large amount, is a trifle over ten cents, while the average fee paid now is only a fraction more than eight cents. However, tbe loss on domestic money orders is made np to some extent by the profit on international money orders. Unnng the last hscal year the postomce department cleared $1MI.0(K) on the pur chase of bills of exchange to settle bal ances with foreign countries on account of money orders issued. Washington Star. Debt Paid After Many Tears. In the town of Deiter. away back in 1867. a mill operative was approached by another young fellow and impor tuned for a loan of ten dollars for a few days. Tbe operative had just that amount, but having a wife and aged mother to care for hardly dared spare it, for fear of need, but Anally did di vide, loaning tbe feilow five dollars. Soon after the borrower disappeared, and nothing more was heard from him until last Christmas day, when tbe lender, who is now a leading business man of Skowhegan, received a letter containing a check for the live dollars, accompanied by the most beautiful dia mond solitaire stud he ever saw. The incident hal long passed from bis mind. bnt tbe letter and present recalled that loan of twenty-live years ago in Dexter. It remains to say that the borrower is now a wealthy jeweler in western Mew York. Lewiston Journal. A Curious Chair People in the Central Street station at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon saw a very odd and decidedly novel chair put aboard the train leaving at that hour. It is about six feet high, being built after the manner of the furniture used in lodge rooms. Charles Roberts was the maker, and the chair is a gift from hiin to his broth er, J. U. Roberta, engineer on the Man chester express. . The chair is made out of wood col lected in different localities and em braces twigs and small limbs of trees from Pel bain and Lake Winnepesaukee, and from tbe outskirts of tbe city. There are walnut, birch, butternut, baaswood, ash. willow and maple limbs in it, all blended prettily together in rustic fashion. Lowell Citizen. A Well teamed Lesson, A West Springfield teacher has applied a good deal of effort to the teaching of her pupils to speak correctly, particularly drill ing them not to say "I see it" when they mean "1 saw it" The lesson has been well learned, at least she thinks so, for yesterday when she asked one of the chil dren, "Did you see the car go byt" a line of winks, nudges and wise looks went around the room. One little fellow couldn't stand it, however, and piped out, "Teacher, teacher, you said "seel' "Springfield Homestead. Curious Facts About Butternut Trees The butternut is a Uee that likes best a rocky, uneven soil, and in whose shade neither shrub nor herb will thrive. The bark is used as a dyestuff for woolens. Curled and birdseye maple is a wood of the same family that sometimes has cu- : riously arranged Other, one with curves, the other with eyes, beao the name. Hoik and Farm. and even of h$ ikin. These an aU mat
