The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-09-19
Re CoreGul 81 the Stck.
CCpr Prairie Farmer AL

Tact and skill in preparing palatable
and proper nourishment for the sick is an
art which deserves cultivation. Where ap-
petite is TO be coaxed, variety and dainti-
ness will go far towards accomplishing the
desired end, which is sometimes of as much
importance as the physicians prescriptions,
and the point to which they often tend. A
person who is not particula r,y faslidious in
health, will be likely to become more 40 by
sickness, and even they turn in disgust
from lukewarm tea in a cracked cup and
all refreshments of q similar nature
Whatever else is neglected, the serving of
an invalid's meals should receive the most
careful attention. Fresh napkins, the daiu-
test dishes the house affords, and the bright
est silver are none too nice. The good
nurse will not only remember this, but she
will, with her own hands, prepare the food
and thus Insure Its proper cooking and
dainty serving. \ tets q iefs service Is the
most convenient, but If this be lacking and
there is no little sugar bowl or cream jug
| at hand, but the cream into a small cup
and the sugar into another, so that the pa
tient NAV have the precise flavor fancied
| for the cup OF tea. The seasoning OF food
should be light, as sickness often changes
ones tastes 10 these matters, and further
seasoning can be added if necessary. One
of the surest methods of destroying the
| appetite is to leave the remnants of each
meal in the room until time to serve the
| next.
Gernniums in Winter.
| Prairie Farmer, 81
For the house, cuttings of geraniums
may be made now. They would have been
better made q month ago, since this would
have made better plants for early bloom.
Nevertheless, the young rooted plants will
begin TO grow nicely about the time of cold
weather, will bloom about mid-win,er, and
make nice stocky plants for turning oat Of
doors next summer, or for propagating
from next spring.
Prepare the cuttings from side shoots
preferably about three inches long. Take
off the larger leaves, leaving only those at
| the end. Stick these around pot, about
half an inch from the side, either in pure
sand or in soil of which sand forms the
greater part. Keep quite moist, warm and
shaded until they form little root, when
they may be potted into four-inch or FIVE
inch pots. The soil should be composed Of
one-half good garden soil, and one half
clear sand; to this should be added one
quarter more of compost or barnysrd scrap
ings, all intimately mixed and passed
through a rather coarse seive.
At the occurrence OF the first light frost,
those geraniums that have bloomed in the
garden-or better, before-should be taken
up, tie leaves stripped off and the plants
healed in a suitable box in sand or in soil
in which sand forms the principal part
They will require only an occasional light
watering during winter; none il the soil is
moist and a little moss be thoroughly pack
ed around the base of the plants Indeed,
many persons simply hang them in the Gel
lar by their roots. This is, however, wrong,
since thus they are apt to become entirely
dead at the root and in the spring make sc
feeble growth that no satisfaction is obtain.
ed from them. As we have described, they
may be easily kept in a partially lighted
! cellar where the temperature is pretty uni
form If it does not freeze.
. Select Good stock.
Prairie Farmer, III
There is as much in the selection OF poul
try a. in that of animals The intelligen
breeder carefully sorts his breeding stock
: Every person who keeps fowls should saw
:. none but the best Of the flock The au
tumn, when selling the surplus, is a goo
time to make the selection, if indeed it ha
8 not been done before. Whenever you &C
!. your eve on an exceedingly fine chics
:, mark it distinctly so that it may be easil
: recognized. Ii of pure breed, care mu:
! By taken not only that the stamina is righ
but attention must be paid to the hes