The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-29

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ut is a liberal education" COM
mented a woman recently, ito have a
trained nurse in the house for few
days. 1 learned much from watching
one who has just left US. For example,
she swept the sickroom every morning
without a broom. She had pail filled
with coarse towels wrung out of cold
water, and with these she rapidly
wiped the carpet. I found that when
1 did not have the things she was used
to- she quickly substituted something
else. For instance, no light-screen be-
ing at hand, she used an open umbrella
to protect the patient from air at one
time and from the light at another. She
made a plate of icecream in ten min
utes in pint pail and with what
seemed to me handful of Clipped ice.
OF course she put Goals on the fire in
paper bags, and when we did not have
a piece of board that exactly fitted the
window to permit ventilating without
draught. she accomplished the same
purpose by raising the window from
the bottom about five inches and tack
ing a strip of flannel to the sill and
sesh with thumb nails Lastly, and
best, she made an oatmeal cruel that
was the first that I have ever really
liked. She used the coarse oatmeal,
and pounded it, putting 1t afterward
into bowl, which she filled with cold
water This was stirred and allowed
to settle before the water was carefully
poured off, three different times. This
water made the Cruel after being boiled
for about one-quarter of an hour, sea-
soned, drained and mixed with a small
teacupful of hot cream This she
served to me with oblongs of toast like
sandwich slices, crisp and brown and
always hot"
A cream OIL beef soup is an attract
i've addition to the list of winter SOUPS.
1t Is particularly delicious when made
With Il quart of chicken stock. The
oeets are peeled and grated into the
stock in which they are afterwards
boiled. They may. however, be boiled
in a quart of water. to which has been
added tablespoonful of beef extract
with raw potatoes and an onion. This
liquid is strained, and to it is added a
quart of hot milk, thiclkened with four
tablespoonful Of cornstarch, and sea-
soned with few peppercorns and a
blade of mace. Strain it through fine
sieve. adding a tablespoonful of butter
just before it is sent tothe table. Serve
with crusts.
The subject which seems never to be
thoroughly understood of calls after
days at home is again agitating some
minds. A day at home is simply an
announcement on the part of the host
ess that she is ready to receive her
friends at that time-this whether the
day at home is an informal day in
each week or a specified date. In any
case, the hostess has been called upon,
and it is she who is now the debtor to
her visiting list
In the social circles, where society be-
comes occupation, these days are very
necessary to continue an acquaintance.
Engagements are so numerous during
the season that a friend could almost
never be seen were it not for these des-
ignated times. Women whose social
claims are much less mandatory find
them of equal value. Something is en-
gaging the attention nowadays of every
woman. 1t may be society; it may be
clubs; it may be business; but her
leisure hours are certain to be few. The
that makes possible this
economy of time and the preservation
of her list of friends is valuable one.
Shallow wooden bowls decorated by
means of the popular topographic art
are shown for the various table uses.
vrbay hold ora clrar~c frr1it mute o,,d raic
ms, and special shape is designed for
baked potatoes. Flat plates upon which
loaves of bread may be cut are also to
be found decorated in this way.
A new substance is coming into
vogue largely for kitchen floors and
seems to be the ideal material for this
purpose. This is the rubber-tiled floor
and its good qualities are legion. 1t
has been generally understood for some
time that the ideal kitchen should be
tiled throughout, walls as well as floor
but much complaint as to the thing on
the floor has come from cooks who
have been obliged to spend much time
on it. Professional cooks and cooking
teachers, women in good health, have
found that the ungiving surface of the
tiles caused them much trouble, and
often injury, the doctors said. Mrs.
Rorer, the cooking teacher. has been
recommending the rubber thing for
kitchens recently. Among other people
a Yonkers woman who has been remod-
cling her house has had the entire
floor of her Kitchen rubber tiled. The
floors of laundries, pantries. bath
rooms and piazzas in new houses have
been tiled with the same material
One of the first considerations of the
rubber thing is its sanitary excellence.
Marble is a porous stone, and rubber is
practically invulnerable 1t is begin
ming to be used for that reason in the
operating rooms in hospitals, on war
vessels-the two hospital ships, Solace
and Relief. were both fitted out in
their operating-rooms with the rubber
thing. There is the noiselessness of