the hot plate containing the chop over a bowl of boiling water,
and cover with a hot saucer, fold a napkin around the baked
potato, and you can carry the tray containing the dinner through
cold halls and up staircases and it will arrive at your patient's
room _hot._ Be careful not to fill the bowl so full of hot
water that it will spill. Never fill a cup so full that it will
spill its contents over into the saucer, it makes a disgusting
looking _mess._ Have all fruit _cold,_ oranges and grapes
especially. Always look over a bunch of grapes and cut off
the soft ones before you hand them to a patient. If you have
foreign or California grapes, hold them for a moment under the
cold water faucet and let the water run through the bunch, and all
the cork dust will then be washed out.

If you peel and quarter an orange for your patient never let her
see you do it, unless you are perfectly sure you will not get your
hands covered with juice. Wash your hands before you bring it to
be eaten.

Be careful not to have any suspicion of grease about the beef tea,
broths, etc. A quick and easy way to remove all grease, is to fill
a cup or bowl _brimming_ full, let it stand a few moments
that the grease may rise to the top, tip the cup a very little to
one side, and the grease, to the last atom, will flow over the
side of the cup; pour your broth carefully into a clean hot cup,
and serve. Beef juice is more palatable with a little very brown
toast.

Remember, that an invalid hardly ever likes any food made sweet.
No matter what the taste may be in health, in sickness, sweet