Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-11

Our boys must take dancing lessons, to
acquire graceful and easy manners,
because we have allowed them
to acquire other manners at
home Children have an inalienabl9
right to romp in the proper time and
place; but no child is any happier for be-
ing sullenly allowed to turn the whole
house topsy-turvy. As children are
drought up'' to-day in many cases, it
is scarcely surprising, that, as they grow
older, they become more thoughtless and
less kind and gentle than the youths and
maidens of fifty years ago. We should
be slow to blame the young folks, how
ever, when the burden of the fault lies
with ourselves.
HINTS FOR THE SICK ROOM.
At a season when there is apt to be
more sickness than at others, few SEN
sible selections from "Home Topics
may not only add to the comfort of an
invalid but actually assist the physician
in his efforts to restore lost health to the
patient, as every wise doctor knows that
he is largely at the mercy of nurses, as
few hours of carelessness are sufficient TO
undo his best work.
A large, sunny room should be selected
for the invalid; if without a carpet so
much the better. Sunshine as a disin-
fectant is worth bushels of chloride of
lime.
The bed linen should be changed at
least once in three days; the blankets
once a week, those that have been re-
moved being hung in the open air for
few hours, then thoroughly aired in
warm room.
The room should be kept thoroughly
ventilated and at temperature not lower
dogs. If the patient is kept warm air
may be freely admitted without the least
danger.
The carpet of a sick room should be
lightly brushed once a day with wetted
broom. The furniture and woodwork
should be wiped with damp cloth. Dry
busters and feather brushes are worse
than useless.
The cross sheet should invariably be
kept free from crumbs and wrinkles, as
these are frequent cause of bed shores.
Whenever the least redness shows on the
PATIENTS body the skin must be at once
bathed with alcohol, thoroughly dried
and busted with powdered oxide of zinc.
A sheet folded once lengthwise, laid
across the bed, with the upper edge just
touching the pillows and the ends tightly
tucked under the mattresses, Will be
found TO add greatly TO the PATENTS
comfort It does not wrinkle like a sin
gle sheet, and crumbs may be readily
brushed off it.
The nurse IS dress should invariably be
neat, tasteful and pretty. Slippers or
boots of felt should be worn. To be con-
tinually smoothing the bed, Fostering the
patient with sympathy and saying dozen
times an hour, How do you feel nOw?''
is enough to drive sick man wild.
Meals for inyalids should look as
tempting as possible. The tray should
be covered with the whitest napkin, and
the silver, glass and china should shine
with cleanliness. The patient should not
be disgusted by a display Of too much
food, and should not be consulted be-
forehaud as to what he will eat or drink.
In bathing the invalid never uncover
too large a surface at once. Pin blan-
ket round the shoulders, fastening it be-
hind, and remove the night dress under
that. Put the hand under the blanket
and sponge the skin, a small portion at
time. woman s hair should be eombed
every day if she is able to bear the
fatigue. If it has become tangled a lit
tie sweet oil will loosen it.
Household troubles should be kept far
from the sick room. Above all, an in