Calgary General Hospital - In Cap and Uniform Yearbook (Calgary, Alberta Canada)

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28 IN CAP AND UNIFORM THE DIET KITCHEN It’s the hardest thing I ever tried, This learning how to cook. When you ask, “How do you make it?’’ They say, “You’ll find it in the book.” At first the place amazes one, It hums so busily, And everyone knows how to cook, That is—everyone but me. There’s a smell of something burning, Senior yells, “Hey, watch your toast.” “I never burnt a single piece I hear one lad} - boast. “Don’t dare open that oven door,” Someone shrieks above the dim, “That cake will sure be ruined. For it’s just now been put in.” Thank heaven for the doctors On whom the blame I lay For the awful diet I prepare For the patients every day. Then the Diabetic menus Cause me much mental strain; All portions are so strictly weighed And the dessert is awfully plain. Just so much carbohydrate, Just so much protein and fat. “Oh you dumbell,” some one shrieks, “You can’t give a diabetic THAT!” On and on it goes, until I think I’m going mad, For now I am the Senior And things are twice as bad.

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IN CAP AND UNIFORM 27 MARGARET WILLIAMSON— Armstrong, B.C. Another example of “good things in small parcels” is this dark-haired lass from B.C. “Made up of wisdom and fun Of all that is fair and dear. ★ ★ ★ ROSE ZURAWEL—Calgary. Rose is our own Sonja Henie from out Ogden way. “She’s not very big, but she’s cute and she’s wise, And she knows a whole lot for her age and her size.” PONOKA AFFILIATE ★ ★ ★ FRANCES LANGLEY. Our affiliate from Ponoka Mental Hos¬ pital. “Frankie” got her education some¬ where near Athabasca. Deciding to find some warmer clime, she migrated south and has spent the last two years with us. “Whose cheery confidence assures A refuge from despair.”

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IN CAP AND UNIFORM 29 THE DIET KITCHEN—continued For I ' m at the final stage Where I am told to make (By methods unfamiliar) A dainty angel cake. Six weeks are up and out I go, This can I truly say, A worse cook never sallied forth From the C.G.FI.—D.K. —FRANCES LANGLEY. THERE ' S AN ART IN CLOSING DOORS An article which appeared on the door of two of our recent graduates and which they wish to pass on to others who have the same complaint: “I find folk who don’t shut doors a bit annoying. When they enter a room you say, “Will you shut the door?” The usual reply is, “I’m just going out again.” Out they go, leaving the door open, and to your repeated request they answer, “I’ll be back in a minute.” Very few people are accomplished in the art of opening and shutting doors. So many seem to fly at the handle and joggle it about and then bang the door. It is possible to open and shut a door with practically no noise whatever and only a little practise is necessary to add this refine¬ ment to the life of the home.