Evening star., 1927-06-03


here. as -four is to be found in every
home, and the general directions
serve for making other gruels. TIC
make, take one tablespoonful of -four
one-eighth teaspoonful of salt, one tea
! spoonful of sugar, one cupful of boil
| ing water, one cupful of milk and one
| half a square inch of cinnamon. Mix
| the flour. salt and sugar into a paste
with a little cold water and add the
cinnamon and the hot water. Cook
! in a double boiler for As minutes. Put
in the milk. bring to the boiling point
| and strain. Serve hot. Nutmeg. al.
mond or vanilla may be used as a
| flavoring.
Care During COnvalescence.
When a patient has reached the
| first stage of convalescence, do not
| he tempted to relax too much in the
care. Although the disease may have
been conquered the sick one is left
in a state of depleted vitality, which
makes him or her exceedingly sensi-
tive to small discomforts and an easy
prey to complications. People who
have never been i'll find it difficult
to realize how much the least eXer-
lion fatigues a sick person or how
easily depression sets in if there are
gloomy remarks or conversation about
unpleasant things.
Try to keep the atmosphere OF the
sick room bright. Do not bring into
it the small worries of the house
hold Remember that the patients 8
state of mind plays an important part
in recovery, and do not make matters
more difficult by telling bad news.
When allowed to sit up in bed the
patient should be well supported by
pillows. A headrest may be fmpro-
vised by turning a chair upside.
down and placing it behind the pill
lows. The shoulders and arms should
be well protected. and great care
should be exercised not to keep the
patient up until overfatigued. Moth.
ing is to be gained by overexertion.
Do not allow a patient to see many
visitors until strength has returned.
When he or she is able to be out of
bed, remove to another room as soon
as possible, and when growing
stronger divert attention to some light,
agreeable occupation.
Do not forget to keep external medi-
cines and internal medicines separated
in the sick room, and remember that
the hands of every one who assists in
the care Of the sick should not only
be clean but they should be chemi-
cally clean by being washed in an
antiseptic solution.
Precautions for Visitors.
Certain visitors are very welcome to
a patient suffering from a long con-
valesence. Every nurse knows how
much good is done to a patient by the
right kind of a visitor, and how much
harm by those who do not understand
the art Of sickfoom visiting. Unsuc-
cessful visitors do not by any means
intend to be unkind. More often than
not they are only tactless. They fail
to realize that a person in low state
of health is seriously affected by what
may seem to the visitor to be mere
trifie.
Those who visit the sick should OBJ
serve certain rules strictly. For in
stance, they should not talk outside
the sick room within hearing of the
patient They should enter the room
quietly and sit within comfortable
conversing distance, and on no account
should they sit on the bed. While
forced cheerfulness is not pleasant to
encounter on the other hand de.
pressing manner and the choice of
depressing subjects is worse.
Do not put wet flowers on the bed
and do not talk loudly, under the i'm
preston that illness and deafness are
synonymous terms. On the other
hand, do not speak in such subdued
tones that the patient becomes wearied
by the strain of trying to hear what
you are saying.
Do not promise to come at 4:30
o'clock and then arrive at SIS. When
a patient is allowed hut one visitor
day, perhaps, and looks forward to
that visit as break in the monoto-
nous hours, the visitor who fails to
appear at the appointed time, think
ing any time will do, will not be well
come at any time. Sick room visiting
is an art and worthy Of study, be-
cause it may be the means Of affording
great pleasure when rightly under
stood.
Sick Room Lamp Shade.
A lamp shade that will shut the
light away from patients eyes With
out darkening the room can be easily
and quickly made. Three large sized
Photographic mounts and something
with which to tie them together are
all that it is necessary to get. Your
object is to make a three-leaved
screen. In one mount punch four
holes, each about half an inch from
corner. II the two other mounts
make holes to correspond, but on one
side only. Tie the three mounts
loosely together with strand of raffia
or a piece of narrow ribbon. and your
shade is complete. If you wish to
make the lamp shade ornamental as
well as useful, you can mount pho.
tographs on the panels or paste on
each mount an attractive, bright pic
ture of flowers or landscape cut from
a magazine.