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tb/Tbin&NotlbuQd ia Any Bookr. How Your HOUSEWORK May Be Made Twice As EASY Bx ALICE R. QUIMBY. I). I). Sc. IN factories the matter of saving energy is made a study, in fact it has become almost a science, but in the household where there Is just as great need of saving every ounce of energy little if any effort is made in this direction. As a result the average housekeeper goes to her bed at night thoroughly tired and the chances are that she has exerted just about, twice as much energy as was actually necessary in the performance of her duties ■roughout the day. The whole Secret lies in studying '■ry task necessary in the running of a household, and iri.in. i possible, where the same work could be •cued. Tn! "J'.'Leatlug oi egg: for instance. Almost every jina.i bi••t.ttb them h. a bowl, stands up in the pantry, js >p t bowl with the left hand and beats them with » fori-, or else whips them with a wire beater. 1 •■emetine . a rotary egg beater is used. In this case iiaw iioth hands and every woman knows that the ■ lr. Trained NURSES Should Be Good ENTERTAINERS THERE If more to being a trained nurse than simply knowing the "trained" part of it No nurse, however well trained she may have been, was ever suc cessful going out on cases, especially when the patients were children, unless she knew how to be entertaining Many nurses may doubt this, but the fact remains that many a Case has been lost be cause the nurse was always stern-faced, tip toeing about the room, with no sunshine or comradeship about her. The nurse who can entertain her young patients is sure to have success, because she can make them do anything she asks. The other sort of a nurse cannot make her little patients obey her, and the results are not a! ways of the “get well” sort, just because of this. One nurse, Alice Jane Drew, R. N . has ♦old how even the most cranky and stubborn little patient may be so cleverly entertained that his stubbornness will fade away and his recovery will be due more than half to the fact that he is made to obey and yet remain happy. Miss Drew imd , t very cranky little boy path nt one time. Before she first entered •hi sick room she heard him shout that he wouldn’t hove a nurse. It was more than an hour before she went into that room. By that time the little chap’s curiosity was so aroused, knowing that she was in the house ail the time, that be pleaded to have her -.cut in. Instead of gearing him with the tempera ui hermometer. she told him it was a :ga;- and lie could smoke it lhe way father smoked. There was no trouble then about making him keep the thermometer in his louth she told him his pulse was an en gine, ind xplafncd hov It was working in his an. . FRUIT JUICES For Hie Cure of INFLAMMATION | J 1'- of fruits as an aid to diges i ’ n ba- loin been known, and es , i'ially is a part of the breakfast is i peci.il value, but not much has ■i, aui or wrif'eu concerning the value of o: . - mi i pealing .ind overcoming - motion • •’ -1 ,'l<- , ven fruit, and have been ■ for .i great many years, because w;; s known to vid them in ‘heir weakened condition :t> digestion and also to erove nourishing enough to act for i time at least as a substitute for more solid foods Dr. Muller, the celebrated Munich physician, has described this new value of fruit as follows: "The judicious use of fruits will frequently prevent wounds from becoming inflamed or foul, and when this state has unfortunately set in, the free consumption of fruit will greatly lessen the pain and the danger of the wound Should the patient’s temperature be high, only the juices of the fruit should be given. For this purpose use any fruit in sea- Bad Teeth May Cause Insanity I f is well known that many dangers result from decayed teeth. But only until re cently was it discovered that in some In stances decayed teeth will lead to actual insanity. Decayed teeth produce pain which results in irritability, loss of sleep, incapacity for work, mental backwardness and finally, ac cording to a case cited not long ago, insanity. in the case that has been cited as proof (hat badly decayed teeth will, under certain conditions, lead to a form of insanity, it is told that a young man of good family history began a career of highway robberies and other crimes and was sent to a reformatory. ! ’ . 4 • i > t Simple Methods That Will SAVE Many STEPS AND Much BACK-BREAKING EXERTION bowl dances and prances all over the table or the side board. or wherever she is working. It takes a great deal of energy to bold this bowl, or to hold the rotary beater in the bowl and keep the bowl from prancing about. A little wooden arrangement in which a bowl or porcelain dish could be set holding it firmly on or at the side of an old kitchen table would surely do away with one half of this labor, for the woman could then sit down and use both hands in beating the eggs, thereby saving the energy needed in keeping the bowl in place and resting herself by sitting at the same time. The modern bread-mixer is a cumbersome thing to manage unless it is made firm to a bench or table. Get a tinsmith to solder clamps on the bottom of the mixer, that it may be clamped down securely. This will save fully half the labor in mixing bread. 1 The bright housekeeper can get a lot of enjoyment out of mapping out her work along the line of least 1 resistance, and after this is done she will find that at 1 the end of the day she has not wasted half the energy she formerly did, and that she is not nearly as tired. In the olden days a woman who sat down in her kitchen was called lazy. Nowadays we know better. We know that it is doing ourselves a physical Injustice > to weary our bodies any more than necessary. There are hundreds of tasks which housekeepers may perform while sitting, that foolish custom alone 1 has decreed shall be done while standing. Housework as it is ordinarily performed is crowded full of lost motions, or motions that do not in any way aid in the work, but take just as much energy and vitality as though they were actually necessary. fn shelling peas, stringing beans, hulling straw i berries and doing various other tasks of this order probably the majority of housekeepers go about it en- He didn’t want milk, declared he wouldn’t ; drink It. But when it was explained that if J he drank every drop he would find a pretty : picture at the bottom of the glass, the milk t quickly disappeared. A bright picture had ■ been pasted on the bottom of the glass. A \ new picture every time ended all difficulty 1 about getting him to drink .the milk, and) there was no exhaustion on his part result- ) mg from bogging and protesting and quar- t railing about it, as would have resulted if ) this clever little plan had not been resorted to. 1 To bring out his measles, hot baths were ? needed, but the nurse "taught him to swim,” ( and the poor little’chap forgot a!! about the ( bath part of it in his anxiety to )• rn to swim \ in tho tub. Later oil baths bi-.aered him) until it was explained that all engines had to ) be oiled or they would squeak and break ) down. The little chap certainly didn’t want ( to "squeak. ’ so he did riot protest. To make him eat at a time when food was J distasteful to him, yet greatly needed, faces j w< i\- drawn on egg shells, jelly- put up in J orange-skin baskets, crackers and toast tied ? up in fancy paper napkins and all such little { devices used with great success. Paper dolls and a clothes line across the i bed to hang make-believe wet clothes on ' with tiny clothespins were so entertaining I for little girl patients that they were happy ' despite their illness. i In this manner the clever nurse will find J that she can get better results with little I patients, that the chances of pulling them < through a serious illness will be in< reased nearly fifty per cent, and that the little ones will actually have a happy time of it, in most J instances, although quite ill. j In time the well trained nurse will be ■ equally as well trained in the art of amusing i little sufferers as they are in taking care of J their bodily troubles. ) son; grapes, oranges, leftions, pineapples ( whinberries. r< d currants etc. The patient 1 can live on these for about a week and will ) have belter results than fasting, as the fruit J juices are helpful in expelling the poison J • from the system, and will thus prevent blood • poisoning. "After some improvement has set in and the patient experiences a sensation of a-.m- ■ ger, it will be well to give grated apples, crushed bananas, steamed fruits which can j be crushed and mixed with a little cream. } Later on, milk or cream, with a little fruit [ juice beaten into it, may be given. If the ) patient has no fever and is going about, i give instead of fruit only almond cream with j the same. i “To make this, shell the almonds, crush ] them in a mill, and then mix with lemon 1 juice to a thick mass like porridge. This can be let down with milk or cream. Half j a cupful of almonds per day should suffice. I This diet is so highly nutritious that a man I could work upon it for a week or two, and ] so pure that it will keep down fermentation ; and the accumulation of impurities. As a child he was bright, honest and truth mi. At sixteen he went to work and shortly afterward began to commit robberies. He be came worse and worse and added other crimes o robberies and was finally sent to a reform atory. At his home his actions were pecu ■iar; he was irritable at times, flighty, inco herent, would do strange things, such as re moving the mattress from the bed and sleep ing on the bare springs. Careful skiagraphic examinations showed badly impacted wisdom teeth, with abscesses at the roots o> two molars and one incisor. The removal of these impacted and abscessed teeth relieved bis strange symptoms, and finally he recovered completely from his peculiar form of insanity j g ® ® I jig D J A—Set the Bowl of Eggs in a Hol* to Make It Secure; B-—Clamp Down the Bread-Mixer; C—Un- necessary Bending with the Ordi nary Dustpan; D—How the Long Handle Dustpan Saves Labor. YOU MIGHT TRY- Keeping White Enamel White. *I ’ keep white enamel ware from discoloring make a strong solu tion of baking soda and rain water and put the utensils in it , \ aild boil them hard. They will be as white as new. Dish-Mop Duster. dusting or cleaning floors there-are always some places ( VV where even the finest mop will not. clean, especially in corners ( and under some pieces of furniture and under and around radi- lators, where much dust collects. To clean these places one of the dish mops, to be found at any ten-cent store, works like a charm. Before Varnishing. < rA EFORE varnishing furniture rub the wood with fine sand-paper < to give a smoot b surface. See that brushes used are soft 1 * and of a good quality, or varnish will dry streaky. Washing Muddy Skirts. r I 1 ° make a muddy skirt wash easily and look white, take some 1 sour milk, dilute with water and soak the skirt in it over night; ( then wash in the usual way. It will be found that the skirt washes more easily and looks whiter. To Keep Bread. READ should be kept in an earthenware pan, which should have a ’ cover. This pan ought to be scalded once a week, and then care- I 1 — 7 fully dried. Cleaning the Bean Pot. > ♦ ■ O clean the bean pot, fill with cold water, put in some kind of wash ing powder and cover tight; put on stove and let come to boil. $ This will make it very easy to wash. Home-Made Baby Incubator NOT long ago a nurse in a general hospital in the West bewailed to the superintendent that if the hospital were only equipped with a baby Incubator she could save the life of a baby that had just ar- : rived prematurely in her ward. The doctors improvised one by means of / a metal stand, a gas heater, a thermostat and two tin bath tubs of small size. The incubator worked to perfection and the child’s life was saved. ' ' The story of this was published in several medical journals, and because ’ of this a country doctor “went the hospital 1 one better” and improvised! 1 an incubator in a little farm house miles away from a hospital, gas, thermo- J \ slat, metal stand or anything else of that sort, even lacking the tin bath i J tubs. The doctor realized that some sort of continuous artificial heat would , be needed. Remembering the improvised hospital incubator, he took two I large dish pans. Set one on two chairs, filled it about a quarter full of . ( bot water set another dish pan in this and thickly lined it with a folded < ) comforter. ' ! Beneath these he placed an ordinary kerosene lamp. The baby was , I wrapped in flannels and placed in the top pan, the lamp was lighted and 1 J an ordinary thermometer inserted in the crevice where the bulb could ! g< reach the water. He cautioned the father to keep the water at a tempera j ture of 104 degrees Fahrenheit. This crude incubator worked to perfection, and the baby’s life was | saved. -'//Hill ■ —W I / // / j[ WfW'# 11 I ‘n wliiii : liMli ; IHIMIWIIIIIIIII IIIIIWTTr' ~ ‘■■■■■l How a Practical Baby Incubatoi Wa» Made of Two Chain, Two Dishpans. ) a Kerosene Lamp and a Thermometer. tirely wrongly, it has been figured out in schools of domestic science that the average method of shelling ; peas takes about five motions to each pod, whereas no < more than three motions are necessary. I Place the dish of peas in front of you, placing the j empty dish for the shelled peases in front of that, 1 roach forward, getting a pod, paU it toward you, split 1 it with the fingers at the same time. By the time it is over the empty dish the motion of the finger will strip 1 the peas into that receptacle, toss the pod to one side 1 and repeat. The old-fashioned method has generally been to put the dish of unshelled peas in front of you, leave the receptacle at the right and the one for the pods at the left. This necessitates bending the body, turning the i head- and making all sorts of unnecessary motions between the three dishes, resulting in loss of good energy and many good minutes of time wasted. i Dustpans are made to-day with long handles. It would be just as absurd to sweep the floor with a whisk broom as it would be to use a short handled dustpan. I In using the old fashipnd dust pans the sweeper has to stoop many times to get up all the dirt, making it 1 twice as hard. The broom is very cumbersome to handle while stooping, the back is strained, the face is close to the unhealthy dust and everything is wrong. Use a long handled dustpan, stand erect. The dirt can be swept into it just as neatly and with twice as much comfort and saving of energy. The same holds good in washing dishes. Many women put the drainer on the left of the dishpau, necessitating the wasted motion of reaching across the pan to place the washed dishes to drain. The natural motion is simply to pass the washed dishes to the right. How Children BREAK Their BONES Without Knowing It IF your child should receive a bad fall, yet get up and run to you, you would look him over for possible bruises, but the ( chances are you would not suspect that the youngster had -actually fractured a bone. Yet this is quite possible and frequently 1 happens. Such an accident is called a subperiosteal, or “green-stick,’’ fracture, and a child suffer ; ing from such a fracture js likely to run about for a day or two; then become pale 1 and in great pain. If the child had been running about for a few days the parents would scarcely think of a fractured bone, but would worry about sprains or rheuma ’ tism or some such trouble. ' The great trouble is that if not attended 1 to such fractures generally heal, but they ' leave the bones shorter or the joints stiff and i are very liable to cripple a child for life. In adults the bones are in such a condition i that it is practically impossible to fracture i 1 them without knowing it, but thq tender, half i formed bones of children are always liable to such injuries. If a child has had a bad fall it is best to take it to a hospital and have an X-ray examination to make certain no bones are fractured. Or if the child begins to limp and is unable to walk or use its arms without apparent cause, take it to a hospital 1 a t once and look for the trouble. Nine times out of ten a green-stick fracture w’ill be found. Why the Large Intestine Is an INHERITED DANGER t ONE of the most dangerous inheritances man has received from his ancestors is the large intestine. This lower part of the food canal —usually about four and a ( half feet long—is the garden in which those ) disease-producing plants known as bacteria i flourish best. These bacteria, moreover, are microscopic in size, so that in proportion the surface of the intestine is big enough for the I development of billions of these agents of deadly illnesses. In other words, every per son carries around a prepared area which invites the disease germs to settle there and feel quite at home. The large intestine serves no useful pur pose at all. The real work of digestion is done by the stomach and the small intestine. !It is in that four and a half feet that nearly all the trouble occurs. Not only is a part of it (tlie cecum) a blind pouch, but ) in addition from it springs that other useless ( thing which has secured such unpleasant j fame as the vermiform appendix. And even < the rest of it. curving up one side of the body, then across and down on the other • Saving $10,000,000 in Waste GERMANY taught the rest of the world how to save ten million dollars in a < year when it made various commercial articles out of the by-products of coal and sold them for that amount last year. Other countries save some of the by < products, but they are wasteful. Our coun > try is said to be especially wasteful in the matter of the by-products of coal. From coal-tar products that are usually { wasted German manufacturers produced ben ( zol, oils, pitch, toluol, xybol, colors, solvents, Frying doughnuts is also a task that is apt to make a great deal of extra work. The woman brings the doughnuts from the pantry on the cake board and holds it in her left hand while she drops the doughnuts in the kettle ot fat. The cake board is heavy, the strain is severe and the woman is apt to make many trips between the pantry and the kitchen range. All this unnecessary work could be done away with by the very simple method ot placing the cake board of unfried doughnuts on the shelf above the range which is generauy at just the right height to enable her to take them from rhe board and drop them in the kettle, thereby saving many trips to and from the pantry and also the streng .n that is used up in holding a heavy board. In washing potatoes most women scrub and rub and whirl them about with their hands, taking perhaps about 10 to 15 minutes to get them thoroughly clean when a little 10-cent scrubbing brush would clean them in 3 or 4 minutes, the scrubbing brush to be used only for this purpose. In this enlightened age it is to be hoped that no housewife peels potatoes before cooking them, as it is well known that all the valuable food salts are just under the skin and in peeling them before cooking this valuable nutrition is wasted. In blacking stoves canvas gloves slipped over th* hands will save ten minutes or more in scrubbing at the sink to get the blacking from the hands. The ashes from the kitchen range should always be removed just before washing the kitchen floor, otherwise the housewife is very apt to wash her floor and find she has to remove the ashes and this will generally result in two or three nasty smootches on the floor, as it is practically impossible, even with ths greatest of care, to remove ashes without spilling at least a few grains. To better understand this sort of a frac ture and where it gets its name “green-stick” take two small sticks, one perfectly dry and the other freshly cut You cannot bend the dry stick without seeing it crack. But you may bend the green stick nearly double and see no crack. Now carefully remove the bark and cut the green stick diagonally at place where you bent it. Examine it closely and you will see that the fibres in the greec wood have been twisted and ripped apart even broken in small spots.' This is what fre.r ntly happens to a child’s bones. He may fall aud twist bis little leg or arm under him. The bones art soft and pliable and do not break but the bone structure may be shattered or splintered or split. When such fractures heal the bone ii quite liable to shorten and suddenly your child's ’arm or leg becomes shortejr than the mate, without apparent reason. This is fre quently attributed to retarded growth of that limb, when in reality it is the result of a green-stick fracture. If the fracture be at a joint and is not attended to t>- joint may become stiff and forever after of no use to the child. For his reason too much care cannot be taken to make sure a child who has suffered a bad fall or begins to |et lame without ap parent reason is not really suffering from tin effects of a green-stick fracture. side, is of no value. It acts as a storehouse for material which the body has decided it does not want. Why, then should it be scored any longer than is necessary? Once upon a time there was a reason for the existence of this extra tubing in the body. The mammals, which had to run fast and far either to escape or to capture their prey, could not afford the time to stop and dispose of the material rejected by digestion. Ac cordingly, we find that it is those mammals which run fastest, such as the horse and the hare, which possess the most highly devel oped large intestine. It is noticeable, too. that among birds it is the runners, such as the ostriches and cassowaries, which have similarly acquired a large intestine and pos sess the cecum more highly developed than all the other feathered creatures. The reser voir part of the lower end of the food tube has a very rich bacterial flora of its own, many of the forms in which are poisonous. Several cases are on record where the entira large intestine was removed, the patient* being afterward in good health. solvent-naphtha, dyes, tar paper, perfumes, carbolic acid, varnishes, drugs, pyridin, an threcene, cyanids and scores of other things. While it is true all these things are also made in this country, they are not made in such great Quantities, although we handle more coal and more coal tar than any other country. The point in this is that notwith standing our country has such vast quantities of coal and coal tar, only 20 per cent of our industrial works produced these by-products, while in Germany 90 per cent of their indus trial works yielded these by-products.