Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-03-13
stocking, "there are strange sights and
sounds in the woods"
The Sick-Rooln.

4 The Sick-Room.
The sick-room should be in the
quietest part of the house-away from
the noise Of the street, the ringing of
the door bell, the voices Of family callers,
and the operations of the kitchen. 1t
should receive the disinfecting power Of
sunshine. and yet have the means OF
;essening or shutting off the light at
will.
1t should contain no more furniture
than is necessary. In some cases a
single bed is best, because it may be
conveniently approached on either side.
In other cases double bed is prefer
able, in order that the patient may be
moved from one side to the other. A
bed with continuance for lifting the
occupant into half-sitting posture is
often desirable
The room should be capable of the
most thorough ventilation. Pure air is
essential to those in health, but vastly
more SO to the sick. It is of more value
than most medicines.
Movements about the sick-room should
: not be unpleasantly suggestive. Noise
less slippers are less disturbing than
I tiptoe tread. The tones of the voice
. and the expression of the face should be
4 quiet, cheerful, and as natural as posi-
3 ble While the room, except in special
:. cases, should not be darkened, the eyes
t of the patient should be shielded from
t direct light.
Q A good nurse is more helpful than the
b doctor-at least, she may treble his
4 efficiency; but she should be emphati-
a 0o11v rron6 1,,1., al ,,,s&1,
e natutal aptitude for her calling, and in
d fullest sympathy with the physician.
a A self-opinionated nurse may more than
d undo all the doctors work.
d One Of the most difficult things to
l. manage is, not unfrequently, the matter
3 of visitors. Comparatively few persons
e can visit the sick without doing more
d harm than good. Bedridden people and
persons confined to their chambers or
RS their homes by chronic ailments may
IS often be greatly helped by friendly
N calls, by various little tangible expires.
le sions OF sympathy, and in general, by
Y, sunshine brought from the outside
le world, although, even in such cases.
lis wisdom is required.
or But in the case of the acuteiy sick
III visitors are commonly an evil. As {
40 rule, they remain too long, and wear,
q the patient with untimey talk. I
ep should never be forgotten that one o
~ the main conditions OF recovery is com
be plete quiet. The question of the ad
he mission of visitors should be left alb
all solutely to the decision of the physician
eel and the good sense of the nurse
er Yoatths Companion.
Ut Newborn Infants.
W. According to Yorkshire ENGLAND
er notion newborn infant should Away
~ be placed in the arms of maiden be
az, as fore it is touched by any one else; an
w in some instances its right hand
bound in cloth during the first day {
mp its existence in order that it may gathe
ad riches when grown to manhood {
ar womanhood estate. In many parts
he the United States, Germany, Franc
mp and Holland, as we'll as throughout IL
ng. British Isles, it is considered very il
me pcrtant that an infant should "go u,
no before it goes down in the worl
the Thus. if child is born in the low
'ty. story of house it is instantly bundl.
or up by one of the old women and carrie
elt upstairs; if the event occurs in Il
ing upper story the same old woman is e
ley pected to take the child in her arms ar
to Chamber upon the top of. the tabl
ng. bureau, or even a chair, anything to g
ell the little one up in the world.
In the north of England when chill
on is taken from the house for the fir
ian time. it is given an egg, some salt, an
ses little loaf of bread, and occasionally
led small piece of money-these gifts bein
he supposed to insure the child again.
en- ever standing in need of the the con
if mon necessaries of life. In the Eas
ore Riding of Yorkshire few matches al
;he added to light the child to heaven. l
M Holland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, an
vas parts of Russia the mother of q new
born babe, if not too poor, provides
Ky small cheese, which is cut in sma
he slices and distributed among the III
cit married ladies of the neighborhooc
of Any young lady who receives her shar
cir of the cheese and eats it without askin
rs, where it came from or who sent it, wi
le- meet her future husband at cross-pat
all OF crossroads within the month. I
his Northumberland cake called tn
rm dreaming bread" is distributed in tn
lily same way, the young ladies who pa,
his take of it being supposed to dream {
GA O14c1I AuUuIC AuSOduNo tuc SdM0 ul6u
In the United States, as we'll as j
id. many other countries, book, piec
Up, of money, and bottle of liquor
he placed before an infant the day it is
1T year old, the object being to test wha
mt its after inclinations will be.
Pleasant for the Kaiser.
on While the Hungarian military mar
on @uvres were at their height quite II
ed Gently the Emperor Francis Josep
ter visited Debreezin, a town he had not bee
ed in since 1852. At that time there wa
an no railway there: accordingly the en-
on peror was compelled to go by coach
he The courtiers warned the driver that b
en- must drive with exceeding care, as b
IL was carrying no less a parsonage tina
ed the Austrian emperor. The driver II
he piled that he knew his bushes
he thoroughly. Reaching the most danger
GUS point in the journey. narrow wa
an beside an awful precipice, the drive