Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-06-24
4 FIELD FOR ROMANCE.
TIE SPLENDID SACRIFICES OF TIE TRAINED
NURSES OF NEW YORK.
Mrs. McLsans Devotion TO Duty Destroyed Hg
Eyssght-Amatsur Summers and Salvation
Army LaSiss Liks Banker Vaa Nordsn's
Daughter.
Special 10 the Register.

Svtcid! 10 ths Register.
New YORK, June 23.-Bank Presi-
dent Van Norden's daughter joined the
Salvation Army year or two ago and
there was much talk about it, Miss
Vanderbilt, Miss Shepard. Miss Helen
Gould and other daughters OF men
worth millions In money go iNfor nurs-
ing and visiting the sick, and find COM
fort aud amusement in it. But only in
an amateur way. The professional
trained nurse has ceased 10 be invested
with that romantic interest which
suggests the names OF Florence
Nightingale, Lucille" Florence Lees,
Lady Cover aud the like. Yet
women OF gentle birth, who have been
as carefully guarded as dollhouse flow
ers, slip away from time TO time from
the ways OF the world into the hospital
ward, and the nurses home, and the
sickrooms OF strangers, content 10 be
forgotten in well-doing. The trained
nurse sees a touching, absorbing, fasci-
mating side OF life as well as many OF
its untold horrors. She is the dAugh-
ter OF war. In the United Saltss eha
dates only from the early sixties, as in
England Florence Nightingale thrilled
the nations with her entree into the
bloody scenes of the CrImean war.
Miss Virginia Mclean illustrates the
heroism OF the trained nurse Of to-day.
She distinguished herself la the college
for trained nurses, and left Bellevue
hospital at the end OF the term In '92
with the highest honors the faculty
could bestow. But she left IL blind.
In an operation at which she assisted,
or while otherwise attending little
child In the ward where she loved 10
work, Miss Mclean got a particle OF
virus IN one OF her eyes. To the In
tense grief OF the staff and Of all who
had known Of the value Of her work,
the sight slowly withered away and the
vitality OF the remaining orb began som
to be affected. Specialists here and 10
Paris and London were consulted, In
vain. Her own courage and devotion 20
her calling did not falter In this hour
OF extremity. She prepared TO transfer
the, Escene OF her activity 10 the blind
asylum. This was indeed Il splendid
sacrifice.
Lady Alexander Levoson Cover, the
land, announced some years ago her la.
tention OF giving up the career OF pleas
ure which her social position and for
tune opened before her. She studied
nursing and began In the summer OF
1880 her regular term In the service OF
famous London hospital. There
are people who say she has more
than once been tempted 10 abandon
her life OF sef-sacrIHce by offers OF
things which women hold very dear, In
GLIDING the love OF several honest men.
Miss Lulu Wilcox n beautiful girl, en-
,ere,. upon such life In 1877 as Sister
Callista, as tho Sisters OF Mercy, In
Hartford A fortune was loft her, re-
po~t said, and the attractions OF the
world showed themselves as they never
had before. la sincerity she lad taken
her vows and in snceritH ahn .dcelaIeQs
shc put them of, including The yowSea
plverty. So she came 10 Now YORK
City, and lived happily, las good a
Catholic as ever"
Pride prevents nurses from telling
some OF their experiences In family
work. The husband OF the invalid wife
sometimes seems TO entertain = vague
notion that he must pay certain
amount Of attention TO tho pretty
sDolher OF her woes. Ia many cases
she Is taken into the family aud
made much Of; the children become
attached 20 her and she dislikes 10 say