Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1892-06-24

once that nursing was to be the business
of her life, and gave up all other studies
for that of caring for the sick.
Her parents took her on an excursion to
Egypt, but she resolutely adhered to her
purpose, and nursed the sick Arabs in a
hospital there with such skill and tender
ness as, in the language of an English
satirist. to almost convince those nomadic
Moslems that n woman might have a soul
In London she turned away from society
to work in the hospitals, and in 1919 took
a thorough course at Pastor Fliedners so
called "School of Deaconesses" at Kaiser
werth, Germany. Her work in London
for the next five years made her so famous
that the British war office reioiced when
she consented to 60 to the Crimea
Her record there is a part of the worlds
moral wealth. Quite recently this has
been attested in a remarkable manner.
The surviving officers of the Crimean war
had their annual banquet in London, and
one proposed that they should ballot on
the question, what name of note in that
war will live longest in history" The hat
was passed, each man dropped in the ballot
he had written and when the count was
announced the applause made the ceiling
tremble, for every ballot contained the
name OF Florence Nightingale,
1t is a singular fact that on the same
day and almost at the same hour Sir Sid.
ney Herbert. of the war Office. wrote to her
to ask her to 90 to the Crimea she wrote
to him offering her services. She was
given almost absolute authority, and with
corps of thirty-four nurses reached the
Crimea to find 5000 disabled by sickness
and wounds, 1000 cases being due to the
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an invald's kitchen, which has since
served as the model for many. She estab
lshed laundry library and schoolroom
She and her trained assistants dressed the
soldiers wounds, assisted at surgical oper.
ations of the most trying kind, and when
their work allowed it sang to the conva
descent soldiers the familiar songs of Eng
land and home.
When she returned to England in Aug
ust. 1856, a great reception was rendered
and declined by her, but Queen Victoria
would not be refused. She insisted or
having Florence Nightingale as her guest
at Balmoral and decorated her with hel
own hand. The sultan of Turkey sent hei
a magnificent present, the French show
cred honors upon her, and besides Other
gifts the British government presented
her with 100000. She expended every cent
of it in establishing the Nightingale Train
ing School for Nurses Soon after hel
health failed and she has since lived a very
retired life only assisting public charities
with her counsel.
Miss Clara Barton has had an even NOR,
varied career than Florence Nightingale
has received honors in many lands and il
now noted as president of the Red Gross
Society of America. Her experience in tn,
hospital has been dangerous enough hui
unlike her English prototype she has Otter
gone upon the field of battle to carry
prompt succor to the wounded. Bullets
have passed through her clothing anC
shells exploded around her as she CAV,
drink and bound up wounds. She began
her work early in the civil war and was a
Bull Run, Antietam, the siege of Charles
ton and Andersonville