The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-10-21
ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.
Care of Sick Chiidren-An Ideal Sewing
ROom-New Dining Room Furniture
Table Dainties.

liable Ddlntfes.
The Matron of the London Hospital, Miss
Eva c. Z. Luckes, whiting in Babyhood on
the nursing of sick children says
Sick children must be lett quiet rather
than kept quiet; their own inclinations are
admirable guides as to what is best for them
in this respect. We must keep our sympa-
thies keenly alive, and endeavor to under
stand what our little patients are feeling as
well as what it is needful TO do for them. We
may reasonably try if toys are acceptable for
the moment, but if they are rejected there
is no object in inducing child TO play. We
must endeayor to soothe it, as far as posi-
bic, into the restful condition il is evidently
needing, and on no account attempt to rouse
she child against its inclination, except when
the administration of food or other RENE
dies renders il imperative to do so. On the
other hand, If the young patient shows de-
sire TO play, that is good sign in itself, and
il is infinitely better to produce the wished
FOR toys than TO risk excitement and irrita-
ton by Withholding them in what Will prove
a futile hope of keeping the child absolute
ly quiet supposing that line of treatment
does not commend itself to him. We can
no more afford TO disregard the mental con-
dition of Juvenile patients than we can VEN
ture to ignore itin adults, if we wish TO
nurse successfully. 1t may often be ques-
ton how far the good of the remedy ordered
would counterbalance the evil of the strUg-
gle and cry that may be involved in its ap-
plicatiOn in the case OF an eXcitable child
who is in a very critical condition, and the
decision can be wisely arrived at in each in
dividual instance only according to the ma
turc of the Hines and the importance OF the
means prescribed. In saying this l do not
for a moment mean to imply that the doc
tors orders may be set aside whenever il is
f,r1 10,
am anxious to point out that the nursing of
a sick child claims intelligent consideration
from every point of view, and that mechan-
ical obedience in some circumstances is the
last thing that skillful doctor would de-
sire.
Henrietta Davis in Good Housekeeping
makes plea for
THE IDEAL SEWING ROOM.
The ideal Sewing-room is rather small. SO
that there may be no room in it for other
occupations than that for which it is de-
signed. 1t is entirely without carpet or rugs,
but with smoothly finished floor OF hard
wood, or one with a good coat of paint. This
prevents the accumulation of dust and
makes 1t very easy to sweep up the scraps
and threads which are allowed to fall freely
on it during the days work The pins and
needles, too, that will gravitate to the floor.
are more easily found. The furniture is of the
simplest sort. Two or three com Portable sew
ing-chairs,-not rockers, table and a cut
ting-bOard, or the two combined in good
Cutting-table bureau with many large
drawers and the sewing-machine, are all that
are allowed to find place in it. a large
box about a foot and half in height, with
a cushioned lid and covered with clintz, is
useful as a receptacle for work as well as an
additional seat. The walls are of a cheeful
tint and two or three pictures may beautify
it, but books never enter here, nor any
literature except that pertaining to sew
ing. The Bazar and similar publ
cations are welcome for their
patterns and valuable aid in work and have
a shelf of their own. The bureau-drawers
are devoted each to certain sort of con-
tents,-one to cotton, tapes buttons and
such small wares one to pieces of white ma
terials, one to colOred Innings, one to wooden
pieces one to silk pieces, etc. The room
contains a closet i'm which can be hung half
finished garments, and on its shelves stand
the boxes of odds and ends of ribbon, lace
and similar things that accumulate day by
day. The room is warm and sunny in win
ter and cool in summer, for its occupants are
to be as comfortable as possible. Its out
look il pleasant, giving an occasional rest to
the tired eyes oil the seamstress, and the room
is in retired part of the house. There, in
those dreaded days when the dressmaker
comes, she is received to find all her neces-
sary materials ready for her. and when her
days work is done she can leave the room
secure in the thought that she will find no
patters disturbed and no parts of her work
missing when she returns next morning;
for, as the idea OF the room precludes its be
ing used for any other purpose than its own,
it is TO be closed when the hours for work
are ended. If it is necessary, as it ought not
TO be, to sew in the evenings, let some well
prepared and easily-managed part of the
work be chosen. so that these evening hours
can he spent in the family circle which gath
erS in the general sitting-room.
Dining-rOom sets show decided change
for the better in shape and finish. Instead
of the straight, old-fashioned, cane-seated
chairs which were enough to take ones APP
petite to look at, there are low, broad chairs
with backs lower. upholstered and covered
with Russian horse-hide, finished like the
famous leather from that frozen land. The
colOrs vary to suit the wood. There are soft
chocolate browns for walnut, an olive for
oak, while for mahogany there is a decided
red. Dning-room tables are made quite
different from the old-fashioned black wal
nut extension our mothers laid so gracefully.
The new ones are modelled after center
table, but, in addition TO an upright stand
ard in the center. have four legs. They are
exactly square, and have the corners slightly
rounded; the standard i'm the center pre-
cludes the possibility of any intimacy among
the feet at table.
TABLE RECIPES.
Chicken a la cream.-Cut the chicken up
and stew until well done; then make a thick
ening of cream or rich milk and sifted Hour,
seasoning with butter, pepper and salt.
Have ready baked a pair of short-cakes made
as for piecrust. but rolled thin and cut III
squares. Lay the crusts on dish, and pour
over them the chicken and gravy while all
are hot. Many prefer ligh soda biscuit in
stead of piecrust, but both are nice
Potato Rolls.-Boil six good sized potatoes
with their jackets on take them out with a
skinner drain and squeeze with towel to
insure being dry; then remore the skin,
mash them perfectly free from Jumps, add a
tablespoonful of butter, the yolks of three
eggs and pint of sweet milk. When cool
beat in tablespoonful. of yeast. Put in
Just enough flour to make a stiff dough.
When this rises, make into small cakes.
Let them raise the same as biscuit and bake
delicate brown.