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FROM DAY 70 DAY. 
After the many years during which 
the little girls have displayed invariable 
stockings of solemn black, except with 
colored shoes, it is rather surprising to 
notice some of the brilliant hosiery now 
on sale for their use. Bright plaids, to 
match the prevailing dress-goods, are 
already popular. These are very hand¬ 
some in the good qualities, but would 
be extremely uncertain as to perma¬ 
nence of color in the cheaper grades. It 
would appear probable that we shall 
see a general use of colored stockings 
for children in a few months. 
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A new material for underskirts is 
moreen in brilliant plaids and Roman 
stripes. The black moreen has been 
very popular for some time, and these 
new colored materials are likely to be 
equally favored. The plaid or striped 
moreen looks as handsome as silk, is 
less expensive, and wears much better. 
It forms a beautiful lining for handsome 
dress skirts, preventing a loosely-woven 
cloth from sagging or pulling, the only 
drawback being the weight. Silk lin¬ 
ings, the envy and desire of most women, 
are not at all profitable in the wearing, 
as the taffeta ordinarily used cuts badly 
in regular wear, so that, before the skirt 
itself is half-worn, the lining is in strips. 
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The advantages of a cash system in 
the household expenses hardly need to 
be pointed out. Yet, odd as it may ap¬ 
pear, there are people who see an ad¬ 
vantage in the credit system. A city 
mechanic’s wife defended her book 
system and monthly payments to the 
butcher, grocer, milkman and baker in 
this way. “You see, my husband gets 
his money once a month, and then I 
know just how much I have to spend 
the next month. All the people I trade 
with know that I shall pay at the end 
of the month, and they don’t expect it 
before. If my husband should lose his 
job at the end of the month, we could 
keep on living on credit until he found 
a new place. If we always paid cash, 
folks wouldn’t give us credit, because 
they’re not used to it, and then if he 
were out of work, we might starve while 
he looked for a place. It’s the folks that 
always pay cash that can’t get credit ”. 
There is a good deal of truth in this 
view. Unfortunately, however, it is 
the cash customers who are the greatest 
losers by the credit system, since they 
have to pay interest on the credit cus¬ 
tomers’ outlay, with their ready money. 
DAINTY MADE-OVER MEATS. 
URINQ Mrs. Rorer’s demonstrations 
at the Philadelphia Food Show, 
she gave excellent instructions in the 
use of made-over cooked meats. Such 
dishes are often even more appetizing 
than the same material when first 
cooked, but much depends upon the 
careful preparation and accurate season¬ 
ing. Here are some of Mrs. Rorer’s re¬ 
cipes : 
Potted Meat. — Chop cold cooked 
meat very fine, pound in a mortar, add¬ 
ing gradually one ounce of butter to 
each half-pint of meat. Add a palatable 
seasoning of celery, pepper and salt; 
pack into small pots, cover with melted 
butter or suet and keep in a cool place. 
Cubby of Beef. —Put two tablespoon¬ 
fuls of butter in a frying pan ; add one 
sliced onion, and stir until the onion is 
golden brown; add a teaspoonfui of 
curry and a tablespoonful of flour ; mix, 
add a half-pint of stock and one pint of 
cold cooked beef chopped fine. When 
smoking hot, add a teaspoonful of salt, 
a tablespoonful of lemon juice, and 
serve in a border of rice. 
Beef Kbomkskies —Rub together one 
tablespoonful of butter and two of flour ; 
add a half-pint of milk ; stir until boil¬ 
ing thick and smooth ; add one pint of 
cold cooked beef, a teaspoonful of salt, 
a tablespoonful of parsley, a dash of 
pepper and a teaspoonful of onion juice. 
Mix and turn out to cool. When cool, 
form into small cylinders, dip each 
cylinder in fritter batter, and fry in 
smoking hot fat. 
Beef Sandwiches. —Chop cold rare 
roasted beef fine ; season it with a goodly 
quantity of onion and a little salt and 
pepper. Cut the bread into rounds or 
squares, toast lightly, cover with the 
beef mixture and garnish with olives 
or beets. _ 
A TABLE TRAY. 
HIS little table is so light that it can 
be lifted with one finger. It is 
really a tray—the legs being needed for 
convenience. When dinner is over, this 
tray-table is loaded with the food to be 
carried to the pantry, and carried there, 
thus saving many steps in going back 
and forth. It is set down and the food 
placed on the shelves. The table is then 
carried to the dining-room and loaded 
with dirty dishes ; these are carried to 
the sink and washed directly from the 
table. If the china closet is not close at 
hand, the dishes are put back upon the 
table and carried to the closet. It must 
be made short enough to be carried 
easily through doorways. It will save 
hundreds of steps for the tired house¬ 
wife. See Fig. 335. D. o. 
THE CARE OF THE SICK. 
T the concluding lecture in a course 
given by a New York doctor for 
the benefit of a woman’s class, a practi¬ 
cal demonstration on the care of an in 
valid was given by a trained nurse. One 
of the class acted as the invalid, and 
thus gave an object lesson of the work 
she performed. 
It is advised always to have, if possible, 
two narrow beds, that the patient may be 
tranferred readily from one to the other 
when necessary to change bedding ; but 
if the wide bed be placed so that the 
nurse can go to both sides, it will 
answer. A hair mattress, light blankets 
and sheets are to be used. If a counter¬ 
pane be used for the sake of appear¬ 
ances, it should be light, as it is import¬ 
ant that the patient be kept warm with¬ 
out unnecessary weight of clothing. 
Prepare a solution of one teaspoonful of 
carbolic acid in one quart of water, and 
sprinkle lightly over the mattress with a 
whisk brush. There is no danger of 
taking cold from dampness. Lay the 
sheet, which should be long enough to 
tuck under both ends of the mattress, 
smoothly over the bed, and draw tightly 
the ends and sides so that there shall 
be no possibility of a wrinkle to disturb 
the patient, perhaps causing bed sores. 
Over this, spread a piece of white rub¬ 
ber sheeting, covering the middle of the 
bed, and tucking well under both sides ; 
over this place a small “ draw ” sheet 
not much larger, or a large sheet folded 
double. The bed is now ready for the 
upper sheet and blankets. The nurse 
showed how to tuck the bedclothing 
under in such a way as to make neat, 
perfectly square corners, and the class 
found that it was not half so easy as it 
looked, but all experimented until suc¬ 
cessful. 
When the patient has undergone an 
operation, the bed is prepared for his 
reception so that there may be no delay 
in covering, by folding the upper sheet 
and blankets backward and forward in 
an accordion-pleating, down to the foot 
of the bed, and laying a hot-water bottle 
at the foot in readiness. Then, when 
he is brought in from the room where 
the operation has been performed, 
wrapped in a blanket, the bedclothes 
can be drawn up in an instant and the 
wrapping drawn from under without 
leaving him exposed to draughts. To 
change the under sheet without remov¬ 
ing the patient from the bed, fold the 
sheet in the accordion-pleating from 
one side of the bed close to the person ; 
have the fresh sheet folded in the same 
manner, half its width, and place against 
the first, the other half covering the 
bare mattress and, rolling the patient 
gently from you, push the two well 
under him. Go to the other side and 
roll him back on the fresh sheet, remove 
the soiled one, and smooth out the fresh 
sheet. The draw sheet, rubber and 
under sheet may be changed at the same 
time in this way. To change the upper 
sheet, remove all but the sheet and one 
blanket. Over these lay the fresh sheet 
and a blanket, and remove the soiled 
sheet with the blanket over it. 
The nurse emphasized the necessity 
for quiet movements and cheerful faces 
in the sick room. No whispering should 
be allowed, and no depressing influence 
should be admitted, as a sick person is 
extremely sensitive. Care should be 
taken not to jar the bed and in chang¬ 
ingclothing, not to lift the mattress sud¬ 
denly or higher than absolutely neces¬ 
sary. Dust must be avoided, and the 
best way to “ sweep ” the sick room is 
to rub the carpet with a damp cloth. If 
the patient must be lifted, and two can 
assist, as in uncontagious diseases, one 
should stand on each side of the bed and 
place their hands together, palms meet¬ 
ing, under the shoulders and lower part 
of body. 
All medicines should be kept out of 
sight, also fruits and liquids, where they 
are permitted, except at the moment of 
administering them. Cut flowers must 
be removed from the room at night, and 
before being brought back, must have 
all the faded blossoms removed and the 
others placed in fresh water. 
The nurse also gave an object lesson 
in the preparation of poultices—flaxseed, 
bread and mustard—and instruction in 
the use of the clinical thermometer and 
counting the pulse. Instruction of this 
kind is very valuable to the housekeeper, 
who is often confronted by emergencies 
requiring just such knowledge. Some 
of the women’s clubs take up emergency 
classes as part of their line of work. 
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