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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2248, 16 June 1881, Page 4

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To Tempt Appetite.—Try to keep a pretty obina cup and saucer, a delicate plate and a small goblet, to present food on to the siok. One expert nurse always serves beeftea and milk in a wine-glass ; one of the thin, bell-shaped glasses, that hold more than they look to hold. A sick person will turn away from a bowl of soup, and be pleased with a pretty cupfull. Siok children, especially, are amused and pleased with the color and pattern of the cups and dishes, and there is a itraco of the fretful child in every invalid. 1 There is something tempting in a small quantity. It does not tax tho eye. Therefore, always present just as little as you judge the invalid wants to see. A coarse white dinner-plate, heaped with food, will take away all appetite, while a small plate or saucer, especially if it is a pretty, dainty one, will be successfully cleared. A mauve saucer, or a pink plate, will coax a feverish patient to eat rice pudding or orange cream, or a few grapes, when all other arts have failed. There seems to be an appetite of the eyes as well os the stomach, and it must not be offended. Yery often the effort to lift the head, even if persons are not dangerously ill, disinclines them to take refreshing or nourishing drink. There ii no need to disturb such sufferers by propping them up with pillows and njaking them lift their heads and change their position. A bent glass tube, sold for five cents at the apothecary’s, is not a signal of extreme illness or lowness, except that the head may rest low. It simply means comfort, and that the invalid need not be disturbed, in a sick headache or extreme fatigue, but can take the beverage provided without a change of position. The art of comfort is not cure, but it goes a great way towards it. — 11 Ledger and Transcript.” Hints on Cooking,—Some articles that are very palatable when cooked fill the house with such offensive odours while being prepared that one inclines to dispense with their use rather than make the bouse so uncomfortable, But a little eare will remedy this evil almost entirely. For instance, what can be more sickening than the smell of boiling cabbage or turnips ? A lump of charcoal put into the boiling water with the cabbage will almost entirely remove the offence. In boiling “ greens” the atmosphere all over the house is often tainted with the offensive smell until it seems like a low class boardinghouse. Take a lump of bread as largo as a hen's egg, tie it np in a clean cloth, and put into the kettle with the greens, and it will absorb all troublesome odour.

A Receipt pob a Good Stew pbom Gold Meats, — Got a knuckle o£ veal and put with it a ham bone and any bones of roast meat,of any kind. Stew slowly till the bonos can be easily removed. Then put to the meat—celery tops or seed, onions, and pe par and salt. Thicken with flour rolled in butter. Add six or eight good mealy potatoes, pooled and quartered, and let it all stow slowly till the potatoes are done. Servo hot.