The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-03-19

4 CONTEMPORARY makes an uncalled
for and impertinent reference to a youn G
lady as a "dark-skinnedv Florence Night
ingale; referring to our expressed hope,
some. time ago, that an exemplar of that
noble heroine might arise in Hawaii he
limiting that our imagined heroine must be
fair 7skinred.1 AS regards our views of the
complexion of a Florence Nightingale,
which we nave hoped might come forward
to serve sick Hawaiians, they are express
ed in the Book of Sanitary Instructions,
which we wrote and published a little
while ago by order of the Hawaiian Legis-
lature, and which we will quote.
NURSING THE SICK.
(Errac.)
The nurse who waits in a sick room,
should be always clean, and neatly attired.
The best nurse is a kind-hearted faithful
woman. The great privilege of a woman
is, that she is prominently qualified by
nature to be the consider and healer of her
suffering fellow beings. Will not Hawaiian
women appreciate this great privilege ?
The saving of their race from the conquest
of disease and death, and final extinction,
is in their hands. The great portion of
Hawaiians of this era, who die, perish for
want of proper nursing. The Hawaiians of
the DID,, rude times, who lived abroad with
nature, like an animal, did not require
nursing when sick. When affected by
some malady, 50 that they could no longer
fish or hunt, they would retire to their huts,
or to some retreat in the forest stay quiet
like an animal, and with nature mostly for
a doctor, would get well, without nursing,
or any care. But the civilized Hawaiians
of this day, made more tender in body and
susceptible of ailment, by their increased
housing and conveniences of clothing; az
having greater sensibilities and sympathaI
the result of civilized intercourse fnf
christian teaching, have greater n4hoir
kind ministrations when sick, thar Ha-
barbarian forefathers.. The pagsaan"c
waiian men of old tabooed the prer9etGiomn
the women at times, when the C. tbnna
Hawaiian men of this day welcoa -o".;nn
to take part in their most iInonnS
family associations. Let Hawaii !" tnGn
therefore be invited and encouras O"hc
the noblest position of their SEX PEI ny
the sick bedside. They are sL theof
nature to speak in tones to sseh ene sich
ear Men, who serve as NUS, as INT nl
lings in hospitals are not SO Huomm 80 Unhn
the ailingf But daughters O -" w" nn
viii serve by sick beds fcs~+bo; ~
for pay viii be the heaIers ,btar of U =
Shall it not be, that one DARK iobt;nn go nf
will arise, like a FlerenceanT . sayaoer 81
England, to be an inspireI
her country 2 ~
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much of books, and of ar Rut whats sol
and these things are good, fort . PoIiaOn
soul will they help to cAhnor bou1 ~
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nud d Sau uesPaIrlng asst kind of educa-
~ JGS' - PROOF u tne ions for Hdwdiian
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come to an end this year an haa ,rnsj = - -
brains. fortunately a aaadad - -
Brooklyn who says he IIsea rrh;oh 1ear hi 4.
ing the dread event til .Se R;hIa recoT he he
borious calculations frC. -. 49, eooM 80 az
lieyes he has proved to 4 nd z co,-ss ,or Lnow,;
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