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Show V 1 NIiY the hungTy know the real lj? of eatinrr. Simple out-door jtfo stimulates the muscular system and Induces or preservoB a state of health. Food for the Invalid. Those who have sick people to feed, and care for, are often at a loss to, know what to feed them and have it at the same time appetizing and nutritious. nutri-tious. In serving a glass of milk, a cup of gruel or beef tea, place on a plate covered with a doily. In cases of kidney disease, the diet should be limited almost entirely to vegetables, skimmed milk and plenty of water. Dyspeptic people should avoid all starchy food and take only the simplest sim-plest diet A rheumatic patient should be denied de-nied sweets and only the white meats should be eaten; also gluten bread and toast. The hard part of an oyster should be removed when serving them to an 111 person. The old-fashioned method of' feeding feed-ing a cold and starving a fever is not considered good, as science has shown that plenty of nourishment is required to repair the waste of the tissues, caused by the fever. After the liquid diet comes the soups, thickened with rice and barley, eggs in various forms, milk and cream toast, chicken and beef Jelly and similar sim-ilar foods. Grape juice, lemonade, flaxseed tea, barley water are drinks that are given frequently, in small quantities. After a long illness, solid food Is resumed very gradually and in small quantities, as the digestive sys-.tem sys-.tem must not be over-taxed. Typhoid fever patients are, as a rule, very ravenous when they first begin to improve, and the greatest care should be taken that they do not over-eat or take any food that may cause a relapse. Scraped beef sandwiches, sago and rice pudding, bread and milk, baked apples, soup with an egg beaten up in it, custard and occasionally a well-baked well-baked potato may be some of the dishes that the invalid can eat with safety. Later a broiled lamb chop or a piece of rare beef steak may be given. lb 3 EGIN every day with tie fm f Jf resolve to be up to the mark la every thought and action. How to Disinfect The careless manner in which many people fumigate their homes after a siege of Infectious disease is to say the least criminal. As soon as the physician gives permission per-mission to move the patient he should be given a hot bath and a sponging all over with a weak solution of bichloride, bichlo-ride, and move him Into the room prepared pre-pared for him. The sick room itself should be thoroughly thor-oughly disinfected and everything that has been used that it is necessary to keep and is washable should be soaked for several hours in a solution solu-tion of carbolic acid twenty parts to a hundred of water. It is almost Im possible to disinfect a mattress well at home and it should either be burned or sent to an establishment where such things are sterilized. There are several methods of fuml gation; one is the burning of sulphur, and follow that by wiping off everything every-thing in the room with a solution of bichloride, one part to five hundred of water. The walla may be wiped with a broom bag dampened with the solution. The nse of formaldehyde Is preferred pre-ferred by many, stopping up every crack and keyhole and letting the volatile vol-atile substance penetrate every part of the room. All bedding should be spread out over chairs so that the gas will have easy access to it Leave the room closed for 12 hours, then air thoroughly. thor-oughly. Formalin lamps which produce pro-duce the gas may be purchased. This is one of the easiest methods and one that is considered most satisfactory. Books and toys are something impossible impossi-ble to fumigate or disinfect and it is much better to burn them than to run any risks of contagion. Disease germs live a long time tn hiding, and one cannot use too much care and precaution. The germs of consumption are. killed by a few minutes' exposure to the direct sunlight, as are many othei germs, so let us use the cheap and easily available germicide and keej our homes healthful and sweet |