The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1894-10-20
NATIONS AND MAIDS.
ALL IN AND OUT AND AROUND
THE HOUSE.
What a Woman Must BE to Minis ter
Successfully to the Sick-Picturesque,
But Dangerous-Ferns In Needlework
Beautiful Arms.
Professional Nurses.

this country. Now we find many OF
our first daughters of the land taking
up course of training for nursing.
What is the cause of this change?
One reason may be found in this TACT
the demand of the public for more
intelligent and refined nurses How
Earring and discordant to the nerves
Of the sensitive sufferer is the loud
voiced individual who walks about
your room with jerky step and set
lies you among your pillows as II she
were anxious to get through as
quickly as possible, while upon her, IN
a great measure, your recovery de-
ponds, for good nursing is often more
effective than medicine.
The nurse of to-day is also to be
companion; much more then 1T IS ne
,essary that she be congenial and
capable of ministering to wants OF
mind and soul as we'll as of body.
Again, the rapid strides taken by
the medical fraternity in the last
quarter of century have given rise
to a more complex style of nursing
and the standard had of necessity to
be raised. In all our hospitals the
nurse must be at hand in critical
operations to aid both then and after
wards by hand and brain work.
AS a rule, those are not admitted
for training who have not had expert
.nce in the responsibilities of life or
are old enough to be able to have
good Judgment and to rely upon
themselves in emergencies. The
training now given in the form Of
!! lectures is such as Will enable the
bright student to understand any
technical terms physician may need
to use IN his instructions to her, while
object lessons are found in the actual
nursing of the sick in all ordinary
diseases under the watchful eye oil
IN experienced nurse, thus the stu
lent has the advantage of both theory
and practice.
Then with the increased opportuni'
ties for work and with the o-callec
enlargement of her sphere, woman
= has very naturally looked favorably
apon this line Of work, Her woman's
curiosity has led her to investiga t.
for herself what has puzzled the minc
= If the physician and her woman's wi
has sometimes solved rather trying
questions. A bright, intelligent cir
once said to me: 81 have Away
wanted to train for nurse ever sine
helped to take care of grandma il
J her last illness, and the doctors di'
not know what was the matter wit
her
Sometimes the knowledge acquire
in training for nurse has awakene
desire to carry study along the sam
line still further and in few years w
end our young aspirant to the rank {
I nurse full fedged physician, say
|, The Philadelphia Times.
From financial standpoint nursin
is fairly good profession, comparin
tavorably with teaching, and shor
hand and type-writing, as a traine
nurse seldom receives less than s
per week. From being sent out {
private duty at first, in the interest
4 the school with which she is connec
I'd, she acquires foothold and stan(
- ing, while after graduation, if not o
,upied, she leaves her address at tt
school, and in her turn is assisted
securing another position.
To one who is at all philanthropica
ly inclined nursing offers broad,
J viting field for labor; the disa
Y pointed lover and the orphan, wi
- feel that this world has no longer al
pleasure for them, and who desi
only to devote themselves to life
loing good, are not now the me-
workers in this profession, but t
majority are those who have ta
\ tor the work and who wish to s,
"a port themselves and who prefer
. work of immediate usefulness, fol
is true that in nursing one can use
influence directly, and the console
ness that one has been able to relic
suffering, be the extent ever
small, causes one to realize that
is worth the living after all.
There are also those who take
- training, not intending to make
of it afterwards in professional l
. but applying it in their families {
finding that the practical experie
of their training often comes in v
handy. To be sure, nursing has
lisagreeable side, but what profes:
has not? Nothing worthy has {
been achieved without patience
Ia. labor and tho unbiased mind pa
. over all the petty trials and
pleasantness as merely helps to al
in moulding our characters, WI
must be tried as in furnace.
All hail the wearer of the str
and cap! May her good work 6
- and may she realize her responsib
in the lives entrusted to her care,
while she labors to bring rene
strength and health to the weak
she inculcate those principles of
Z and moral light that never grow