The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-20

places. but this is the best and want
! TO stay. l amt wanted at home.
! There's no room for the likes OF me.
| The house is too small, and I'm IL the
way. Ny friends will raise a trifie
every month. if you'll only let me stay
Women will often come into our
waiting-room just for a warm and rest.
| One day noticed woman holding her
head in her hands and meaning as if
in great pain. What's the matter
with you? Is it anything very bad?'
oh no. miss she laughed. I wanted
q rest, and thought you'd turn me out
if kept quiet
Poor people often beg for dose of
medicine IN cold weather just for the
sake Of getting something warm to
drink. One poor old man used to ask
for leave to go and see his friend every
Sunday and was driven back in cos
ter's barrow. Father alters likes to
ave s reggler Sunday fit at 'one,' the
son explained; so we jrst looseus S
'ankercher an lays i'm fat on the kitch-
ell tiles till e comes to again. Then
we gives i'm drop O gin an drives IN
'ome tc the 'orsepittle all VERY confer
able
Il should like to take this opportuni-
ty OF strongly protesting against par
cnts allowing their children to become
nurses until they are five or six and
twenty. al age which has been fixed as
the fitting one by a great many
thoughtful men and women who have
thoroughly studied the question. We
began by taking any young lady who
was good enough to lsave home and
put her time at our disposal. Now,
nurses should be wccded thoroughly. so
that we may get the very highest type.
Nursing makes great demands on the
physical strength Of any young woman.
Besides there are many sights in hos
pital which it is not well for young
women to see.
Ladies sometimes come to the hos
pital and want to adopt pretty chill
dren. Once, by little dexterous
maneuvering, l persuaded lady to
adopt very unpreposscssing child.
W
before Christmas, with frost bitten toes
and lvid weals across her shoulders.
We cured her toes as well as we could
and washed her Most of the neglect
from which she had suffered was the
neglect of necessity. The people who
had picked up this deserted wait be-
came too poor to keep her, and were 50
IN at al a,. hat ! =
trouble to come back | found out an
aunt of the childs; but when the aunt
discovered the reason for my wishing to
make her acquaintance, she moved and
left the waif on our hands The girl
wasn't interesting in any way Fortu-
nately, remembered West End LADY
who did good to her soul by coming
round the wards on Christmas day to
distribute toys. When she came | said
to her in the most heartless voice I
could assume: oh, this ugly little
wretch is going 20 the workhouse to-
morrow
'She looked at me, her manner i'm
plying: These hospital people have no
heart at all Nurse. can't bear to
think of IT,, she said.
"'Yes, it is unfortunate / replied,
coldly; but no one wants her She's
not a nice child. Ugly, vicious, I'M
pleasant in her habits. The werkhouse
will probably do her good
The lady began to grow indignant,
but curbed herself with an effort
Would you do me great favor. nurse?'
'arTa " -
matter in the least, but all the while
nay heart was humping away: She'll
take it! She'll take it,
Don't. Promise me you won't let
her go to the workhouse until you hear
from me?'
oh, ii you wish it
81 do wish it very much. Thank
you
Then she went away; but the upshot
Of it all was that she provided the child
with a home in the country. paid
worthy old couple to adopt her, and
gave the girl a year in which 70 over
come her bad habits and equally bad
language. OF course, | warned the lady
in question that she wasn't dealing
with the customary Christmas-card
child; but that only made her the
more determined 1t was not found
necessary to send the girl to an indus
trial school at the end of the year She
is now a happy, respectable young
woman, with husband and child of
her own. Her patroness still thinks it
pity that SO admirable nurse should
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