Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-01-24
Training NurSeO.

Mrs Robert W. Chaplin of this city New
York;, has hit upon a very happy idea in de-
Gliding to found q training school for chill
dren's nurses and in endowing It VITA about
SO, 900. So much ignorance Is displayed by
nurses, and SO many children are made IN
happy by the treatment received at their
hands, that it is surprising that Mrs. Cha
pins plan has not been adopted hong ere this.
In the city of New York, and, in fact,
throughout the whole country, competent,
considerable chAdfenas nurses arc decidedly
scarce. The proper bringing up Of tho
young is too lightly regarded by q good
many mothers, but if Mrs. Chapin's new
school will do its work we'll by turning out
really wsu trained nurses, rot only many a
little one who is now intrusted by its fash
ionable mamma to the tender mereies Of an
untutored hireing but the whole community,
will be the gainer.AEpoch.
Every woman who expects to be at the
head of house, and what woman does mott
should know something about cooking.
know young man who is going to marry a
young woman who is q teacher Of the art Of
cooking, and envy that young man the din
ners that are before him
That ever changeful and tickle goddess,
Fashion, has revived the banquet lamps
which years ago were very popular. The
present style is rather taller than that for
nerly affected.
Virginia woman.
A Virginia woman Of fifty years ago Wa
well read In the Bible, Shakespeare, Milton.
Young and the English classics generally,
wlile her taste for fiction was satisfied by Sir
Charles Grandison's ''Clarissa," Miss Bur
ney's "Evelina,n Don Quixote" and "Gl
Blasn At the same time the old English
prejudice against the blue stocking" was
largely entertained The daughter OF dis
tinguished lawyer who had ventured TO read
Blackstone was thought BY her compan-
ions to be alarmingly eccentric. and the study
Of the dead languages or mathematics was
deemed an encroachmeut upon the nascu-
line province, No Virginia woman dared to
talk politics; it was considered shockingiy
unfeIninine, and yet she must have done
great deal Of thinking, for somehow her sons,
while babies, learned patriotism at their mo-
Tiers knees
She was euinently domestic in her habits,
skilled in needle work and dexterous in man
asement. Nowhere more frequently than in
'.ths Old Dominion" vas TO be heard the
adage Cleanliness is akin to godiness," and
the A B & Of lsdyhood was thought to con-
sst in perfect neatuess The simplicity ct
good taste marked her dress, and her orna-
nents were az. 20 be few. Ii, however, she
wore lace or jewels they were genuine, for
she scorred sham or pretension Of any sort,
and was true TO the core in small things a.
well as great
Conversation was an tart she peculiarly ex-
ceued in To begin with, ner voice was soft
and sweet. which. added 20 tSs charm Of Al
address As aGAhls as It was modest, made
whatever she said seesr indeed hks apples
OF gold IL pictures Of silver From . mind
well stored with information, acquired -
well BY association with cultivated and In
tellgeus people from chldheod ar - BY
steady reading, the fond motAsr va voct TO
instruct her children while sss entsrtaioed
her guestA without wboS Prssence Viz
ginisn country home woud seem stripped sf
it, crewsicx Gax9,-Hss7~s Ras>r.