Red River prospector. (Red River, Taos County, N.M.) 1900-190?, 1906-12-06
AFTER THE HARVEST
TAKING STOCK OF THE GAR.
NEREp SEEDS.
Happy Are They Who Can Say They
Have Lived Up to the Promises
Of the Sprlnatime-Some
Household Lore.

There is a sadness connected with
the fall of the leaves and the closing
months of the year which we have
all recognized. With the spring, hope
awakens in the heart and "all things
seem possible" but with the ending
of harvest we realize how much we
have left undone, how carelessly we
have sown, how |neglectful we have
been in cu~ltivating the tender graces
that make life worth the living. We
all mean so well. We want to walk
uprightly, to be kindly a%ffectioned
one to another, sweet and unselfsh in
our family life, and faithful to every
duty set before us; but when VIC be-
gin to take account of harvest we
realize how far short we have come of
what we intended in the springtime.
But let us not be discouraged, how
ever. From the realization of failures
past, let us take fresh courage for the
future.
IF any watchful thought Of ours
Can make some work the stronger,
If any CHEEKY smile of ours
Can make its brightness longer.
On, let us speak that thought to-day.
With tender eyes a-glowing,
So God may grant some weary one
Shall reap from our glad sowing"
1t is a singular thing that in the
great hospitals and training schools
for nurses, where everything is sup
posed to be done in the most advanced
hygienic way, a requirement in the
nurses ward is that their beds be
made for the day within a half hour
after the time of rising.
This allows for no airing whatever,
save the very few minutes while the
nurse is dressing. The same provis-
ion holds il the general wards, where
the patients are able to be up during
the day. AS soon as the patient rises
the bed is made so that the ward may
look tidy. Sanitary cleanliness in
this case is sacrificed to appearance
a great mistake, as every good house
wife knows. There is nothing more
restful than a well-aired bed. 1t is
not sufficient to throw back the covers
from the foot, for a make-believe air
ing. They should all be taken off
separately, spread over the chairs
near the opened windows, then the
mattresses turned and the pillows
shaken and put to air. Every child,
boy as well as girl, should be taught
to do this; yet in how many families
do children, and old folk, too, crawl
out of their beds and leave their
rooms without even so much as open
ing the windows.
Every few years even the best of
mattresses should be pulled apart
and made over by an expert workman,
then covered with fresh ticking. AS
for the pillows, they may be made over
at home, if one has a closed room in
which to work. Empty the feathers
into clean sheets, tie up and take out
into the sunshine, laying them on
boards or a table where the air can
get to them. Beat with a light stick
or rug beaten, and turn often. Mean
time wash the cases or make new, as
required. After a few days in the
crisp air and bright sun. the feathers
should be elastic like new. Then re-
turn to the cases. Old feathers, when
well kept, are far better than the
freshly plucked ones, unless they are
perfectly cured. When carelessly at
tended t the quilts contain some ami
NAL matter that is apt to breed YER
min,