The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-17

places, but this is the best and I 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 in the
way. Ny friends will raise a trifle
every month. If you'll only let me stay
women will often come into our
waiting-room just for warm and rest
One day | noticed a woman holding her
head in her hands and moaning as if
in great pain. What's the matter
with you? Is it anything very bad?
oh no. miss she laughed. I wanted
rest, and thought you'd turn ME out
ii l 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 friends 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 just loosens 5
| ankercher an lays i'm fat on the kitch-
ell tiles till e comes to again. Then
we gives i'm drop O gin ar drives IN
! 'ome to the 'orscpittle all VERY confer
| able
Il should like to take this opportuni-
| ty of strongly protesting against par
! ents allowing their children to become
nurses until they are five or six and
! twenty, an 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 weeded 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 d 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 a little deXterous
maneuvering. | persuaded lady TO
adopt very unprepossessing child.
| The little thing was brought TO me just
| before Christmas, with frostbitten toes
| and livid 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 waif be,
came too poor to keep her. and were SC
| glad to get rid of her that they didn't
trouble to come back. ! found out an
/ aunt of the child's; but when the aun!
discovered the reason for my wishing t.
make her acquaintance, she moved and
left the wait on our hands. The CIR
wasn't interesting in any way. Fortu'
| natalv, remembered West End lady
who did good to her soul by coming
round the wards on Christmas day &c
distribute toys When she. came l said
to her in the most heartless voice
could assume oh, this ugly little
wretch is going to the workhouse to-
morrow
'She looked at ne, her manner i'm
plying: These hospital people have ne
heart at all Nurse, | can't bear t.
think of it she said.
YES, it is unfortunate / replied
coldly; but no one wants her. She's
not nice child. Ugly, vicious, un
pleasant in her habits. The workhoust
will probably do her good
1.-THE lady began to grow indignant
but curbed herself with an effort
Would you DO me great favor. nurse?
Certainly said, as if it didn't
matter in the least, but all the while
my heart was humping away: She
take it. She'll take it,
Don't. Promise me you won't lie
her go to the workhouse until you hea
from me?'
''Oh, if you wish it
"T do wish it very much. Thanl
you
Then she went away; but the upsho
of it all was that she provided the chile
with a home in the country, paid
worthy old couple to adopt her, ant
gave the girl year in which 10 over
come her bad habits and equally ba'
, language. OF course, | warned the lad.
in question that she wasn't dealinj
with the customary Christmas-caT
child; but that only made her To
more determined. 1t was not foun
necessary TO send the girl 10 an indus
! trial school at tae end of the year. Sh
is now happy. respectable youn
woman, with husband AID child o
her own Her patroness still thinks
pity that so admirable nurse shout
have so little heart. &c. Ii. BurSip, i
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