Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-07

from black bottle. You would be surprised
to find how common this kind Of talk Is, even
among those Of whom you would expect bet
ter sense. They would rather remain among
their own people, who encourage them in such
foolishness, though they themselves haven't
time to nurse their sick, even If they knew
how OF course people brought up in the
slums don't mind the smells as do, and the
sight of yermin doesn't nauseate them as It
does me; but for all that their sick would not
only be much more comfortable, but in many
cases their chances Of life would be doubled II
they could be persuaded to go to some decent
hospital.
What kind of smells do encounterG ALI
kinds except sweet ones / often wish
might leave my nose at home, for while I
am cropping about in the dark halls, trying
to find my way to the shaky staircases, it
seems to me different bad smell comes with
every breath draw.
81 have sometimes almost gone down on
my knees to some poor rheumatic or partially
paralyzed woman, imploring her to let her
self be taken to the hospital, where she could
receive all the attention she ought to have,
and the answer would be, 4 amt fitten to die
yet, so Pm a-goin' to keep out of the hospital
as long as CAM One day the doctor said
to a case of this kind-she had been dress
maker, and had supported herself comforta-
bly, as long as she was able to work-that she
would be sure to die If she stayed at home
and let her children expose her to draughts
as they were always doing. WELL said She,
better die at home, when my time comes,
than at the hospital, before my time comes,
and where I'll be cut open before the breath
is fairly out of my body. That's the way a
friend of mine was served last year. Her
folks didn't know no better than to let her
be took to a hospital, and after her death,
which l s'pose was helped along by the black
bottle, them doctors, without asking leave
of nobody, slashed away at the poor thing;
and then they botched her up again, making
a great pucker in the seam, such as l wouldn't
allow no little prentice girl of mine to make
snow, that dressmaker is fair specimen
of the kind of people l work among.
"Duties of a missionary nurse9 Well be-
sides giving medicine and sticking on plasters
and taking temperatures, sometimes have
to cook and wash and scrub and beg. Scarce
ly day passes that / don't boil Cruel and
broil chops for sick people, and often have
to roll up my sleeves and wash dishes or scrub
the floor Then occasionally have to go to
some depository where benevolent persons
send such things, and present petition for
sheets or blankets, or whatever else is needed
among my patients, whom l sometimes find
lying ON piles Of rags.
"Salaryl Forty dollars for the first month,
the month Of probation, and afterward $50 a
month. If you were to go the rounds with
me some day l think you would say that am
not paid dollar too much. Just now, bs
sides the case of rheumatism have been tell
ing you about, have consumptive patient,
a cancer to look after and a bone felon to
poultice, and some cases Of malaria that lone
or another of them) are needing quinine at
every hour of the day, and cannot be trusted
to take it by themselves; these are only few
Of my patients. New York Tribune.