Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-11-22
WORK FOR WOMEN.

for the Sick.
Cooking delicacies for the sick with
a dainty perfection that can not be at
tanned by large caterers or ordinary
cooks is comparatively new but very
popular industry, added to the list OF
peculiar employments by which women
are enabled to earn their living in New
York. One of the consignors of the
Woman's Exchange has entire charge
of this special branch of cuisine, and
has coined dollars for herself, besides
carrying comfort to many sufferers.
She is one of the unappropriated
blessings of this world, an unpluckeds
rose left to wither on the virgin stem,
according to the bilious poet, but who,
with tho perversity of her sex; re-
fused to do the expected, and, instead
of whitening, has blossomed into new
tenderness, beauty, usefulness and
womanliness. She failed entirely IN
the cake department at the Exchange,
but at the suggestion of some friendt
she began the cooking Of those delica-
cies which long practice had made her
an adept and an artist in preparing.
on the avenue, the boarders at the
Hoffman House and Brunswick. the
sick in various hospitals and the del
icate friends of wealthy patrons among
the poor alike enjoy the same broths
and teas. iceland moss and blanc mango
she prepares, and which can be found
nowhere else so delicious in taste
Beef tea, chicken and mutton broth
and beef juice. with various similar
delicacies, may be had at any time on a
days notice at the Exchange, and in
cases of emergency they are often pre-
pared by the lady during the. hight
Ladies who have most accomplished
cooks say that they almost invariably
fail in cooking for invalids. and
boarders at even the best hotels and
boarding houses can not be supplied
with the appetizing and nourishing
food essential to invalidism- -
Still another gentlewoman prepares
various kinds of breads, brown bread,
graham. and health food bread. the
latter made from entire wheat. One
customer, a delicate man boarding at
a very elegant uptown restaurant. con-
sumed eight loaves of health food
bread a week through the entire
winter. A wealthy lady in town bAs
kept an old coachman alive on the beef
tea made by the gentle spinster at the
Woman's Exchange all through the
past summer and another lady ordered
rolls and chicken broth sent to a sick
servant for many weeks. until her re-
covery was announced. A lady in
Washington. learning of the illness OF
poor friend, ordered nourishing
dainties sent to her through a long
illness. The kindness of rich women
continually manifests itself in this
way.
Other women employ themselves very
lucratively in the preparation of pure
jellies. containing no gelatine, for
invalids, and still others are occupied
in the making of wine and fruit cordials
and tonics for the sick and debilitated-f
These women are almost without ex-
ception ladies of wealth and refinement.
who, learning their dainty and
womanly art of invalid cuisine from
experience gained In the care OF their
own families. have peculiar skill
which can not be acquired In any other
way, and which some sudden whiri in
the wheel of fortune has caused them ia
employ for the public good through the
emptinass of q private purse->A z
SssA