The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-09

chefs cap is assisted by four patients,
while the baker has three patients to
help him. One man in imitation of the
cap and apron of the baker himself
wears a blue and white towel fastened
round his head, in what he doubtless
fancies a most professional fashion.
Here loaves weighing two pounds are
baked by the hundred, white bread three
times a week, graham Tuesdays, rye
Thursdays, and alternate Saturdays
rye or graham. Dough enough for one
hundred loaves is set in great metal
lined vat, and where the housewife
measures in quarts and cups, the baker
measures in pounds, pals and ounces.
On Mondays corn cake Is cooked and
on Tuesdays coffee cake is made. So
considerable variety is thus obtained.
Near here is the shoe repairing shop,
where all the mending for the inmates Is
done, and further beyond is the laundry,
where all the washing for the institution
is done by hand under the direction of
an attendant helped by five patients
All the floors in this lower portion of
the building are stone tagged, the flags
being quarried and cut at the asylum
by the patients themselves.
There is a contagious ward, small,
white-walled room containing single
iron bed, and chair, for the isolation
from some infectious or contagious dis
ease. But there is also a hospital ward
A dainty, attractive room, hung with
muslin curtains, and having several
pretty etchings on the walls to relieve
the monotony and give it a coZy look,
and at the foot of one of the beds stands
a convenient little bamboo and sflk-cur-
tanned screen, so that the two beds can
be screened from each other if consider
ed desirable. The ordinary large dormi-
tory contains twenty-five BEDS all spot
lessly white and eXQuisitely clean. Each
patient makes his own bed, and the bed
clothes are drawn as smoothly and as
neatly as any chambermaid could ar
range them. In some of the smaller
wards there are only four or five beds
There is also a bath room and a
clothes room in this corridor, and each
man has a box into which he must fold
his clothes, and put them away . .,c,...1
w,.~-s 80 III use One 81 the patients
takes charge of the repairing and mend
ing of all the clothing before it is put
away for the night. He is, of course.
{ insane, or he would not be here but it
is remarkable to see the care he takes
of the clothing. Each night, when the
men come in from work, they pile their
duck coats where he directs, and he
goes over them carefully, cutting off a
button and sewing it on again where
ever he finds one loose, and sewing up
each and every rip in the seams In all
the time he has had charge of the work,
the superintendent declares that this
man. insane as he is, has lost but one
button!
Another patient a carpenter, has shown
wonderful ingenuity in the way OF his
trade. He has not only made several
bookcases and desks, but he has fashion
ed the tools with which he made these
articles, until he has now a well-fIIed
tool chest, also his own manufacture.
| which he keeps carefully locked. His
plane is a miracle of ingenuity, being
made from an old piece of steel picked
up somewhere about the grounds and
sharpened and shaped into it's proper
position in the usual wooden frame Save
that these tools lack a certain smooth