Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-17
Home Nursing
And Health Hints
BY JESSIE LEITCH


and hurt herself rather badly. Be-
cause her family consisted of two
slender young daughters and
frightened maid of uncertain age
| who always ran and hid herself in
the garnet. when anything unusual
task to raise Mrs. Greene from the
floor and to get her at last COM
fortably settled in the spare room
bed.
Because the spare room bed, of
course, is the place in which one
enthrones members of the family
who fall ILL., And in this case poor
Mrs. Greene did fall very i'll in
deed. here were several small bones
broken, and it did seem as if there
to rub into Mrs. Greene's aching
| joints and muscles.
Tires of Spare Room
But time is a great healer and in
| the course of a week Mrs. Greene
was able to sit up and do little
knitting, and to laugh a little, with
| out it hurting her all over. And she
Even spare room bed has its llml-
| tations. And by the time Mrs.
Greene had counted the stripes in
| the wall paper, and the little roses
| that ran around the top of the cell
| ing, and the dots on the starchy:.
| that the tan carpet with the pink
| roses sown at random upon 1T was
| rather monotonous, she asked to be
| moved back to her own room.
But, mother" began Mary.
And, 81 am sure this room is per-
| fectly lovely" added Kate.
eye maybe maybe" gu said aid Mrs MIS- Greene, a
trifle alphabetically. IT'S all right
| for company, but the old black wal
| nut bedstead, and the red carpet and
the old dresser, and that picture of
your father on the day we were mar
! ried-they all make me feel kind
Of contented I'm not at home here.
Hannah Makes Suggestion
The mention Of their fathers pic
ture was enough. The girls had been
very little when he died. And they
er wanted to be back in her own
roem with it's old shabby furniture
| that was full of MEMORIES:
We'll have to get her back. And
Hannah isn't bit of use in the
| world"
The girls were down stairs, de-
Gliding how to move their mother
| without calling in the neighbors.
"a sheet might help, miss" sa1o
Hannah, who wasn't expected TO
fled from trouble, with her fingers
l." And md soIa sheet it was. And, as
| it turned out, very timely help
| it proved Hannah had read about
| it somewhere.
The girls trundled the little single
| bed on castors in from Hates room
to the spare room bedside. across
| it, right across the center, they
wise The ends trailed on the floor,
but they tucked them up, Mrs.
| Greene managed to get to the edge
| of the bed, and rolled over, Thus
| the folded sheet was directly be-
meath the middle of her BODY. ,o,,
alongside the big black bed which
was too low for her to roll on TO,
| and one end of the folded sheet was
! thrown across the vacant bed. Kate
| grasped this, and Mary, on the Iar
grasped the other free end: Han
nah grasped Mrs. Greene's feet, and
when Mary said: Ready" the girls
lifted her easily to the vacant PEG
81 didn't think s - sheet Mrs wou Gre ngrp
" my this this bed does feel good"
-' A simple sugar SITTER
When Teddy Gray was SICK ne
used to cry for cool baths and pow
der rubs. That was when ne was
in the hospital. ou1 70
l
90 home. not sick enough to reel
| badly, but too sick to go to schooi,
| the doctors said there was no reason
whv the powder rubs should not pc
continued, since they seemed TO
soothe little Teddy,s soul rs well do
Teddy was one of the little boys
with a, hopelessly twisted spine, the
kind of spine that all the braces
and straps in the world seem to 90
little good. But TEDDY nad SLtIn,
ing soul and happy smile. Wnlch
is sometimes better than a straight
spine.
Hits Upon Splendid Scheme
And after a few accidents with
the powder box, such as forgetting
that her hands were wet from the
bath water and catching up the pow
water and get soaked before she
could rescue it, Teddy's mother hit
upon a splendid scheme for pow
der box.
She was making a cake one one morn morn,
ing and as she TOOK up U4 ne s cai<e
it's perforated top, the handle on
it's cup-lilze side, suggested Teddy's
powder box. Not that they were
alike-"But why wouldn't this make
INJURED Teddy's mother, talking to
Then she discovered that while one
always paid at least twenty-five
cents. for can of talcum powder
which didn't go very far when one
was using it as prodigally as she
was, one could buy pure unscented
talcum at the drug. store by the
pound. And it would take a good
many cans to make pound.
So she purchased a pound ano
carried it home in triumph: Every
n
cheating the cost of high living.
Adhesive Tape Helps Out
And, emptying the powder into the
sugar shaker, she decided that just
In case the top might loosen and
cause a very great furry in powder,
she would fasten the top to the body
And how do you suppose she did
With adhesive tape, or plaster the
usefulness of which there is no
, end.
A strip a couple Of inches wide was
. ! strapped around the top of the can,
. and it fastened the two securely to-
gether.
After that there was no more pow
der accidents. The sitter was much
more generously perforated than the
little powder boxes, so one shake
almost answers for the entire pow
der bath"
A pound of talcum lasted ever so
much longer than several cans, and
, cost less.
Another Discovery
Another little discovery that Ted
! dy's mother made was that three or
four small pillows, of different sizes
and shapes, would tuck away about