Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-02
JAPANESE GIRLS AND NURSES
Miss Sakaki and Miss Nagano Leave a
Pleasant Impression in Chicago.

The Chicago Baptist hospital will
lose its japanese trained nurses in a
short time. Miss Natsu Sakaki and
Miss HiSa NaganO will return to
Japan in July and open hospital in
Toxic. The girls came to this country
to study nursing two years ago last
August. Last year they completed the
course and now they have finished q
postgraduate course.
When they first came to the training
school the superintendent, DR.. Linnie
NJ. Ousley, folded her hands in despair
and wondered what she would do
with those children" But they solved
the problem themselves. Yesterday
she said: Il do not know what we
will do when our little nurses leave,
we have become 50 attached to them.
They are 50 unSelfish and so thought
full of detail, and, no matter how tired
or worried. they are always happy
One day | asked Miss Nagano how she
always managed to be so happy. and
she said the children in Japan We're
always taught that, no matter what
cheerful and not make others wretched.
And they have certainly lived up to
their belief wonderfully" she added
enthusiastically.
When asked as to their success as
nurses she said: They make the best
possible nurses. They never have to
be t0ld how to do anything twice
Their Quickness is remarkable
Little Miss Sakaki had been reared
manual labor, but she never hesitated
at diSagreeable tasks.
They have been a great help to the
other students, too, for they never
StOOp to little things, and are so abso-
lutely truthful.
occasionally a patient objects at
first when tie idea of japanese nurse
is presented. One woman III particular
came to me crying, and said she could
not have Miss Sakaki nurse her, but
urged ner to make the trial Soon
afterWaTd it came the nurses turn to
go on night duty, but the Lady cried
harder than ever then, and persuaded
me to let her have her little Japanese
back. She said the American nurse
could not give her the little attention
Miss Sakaki rendered her.
I'VE find it so in every case. When
ever one of them takes a patient they
have to stay until the end or there is
trouble with that patient. Every one
pets them, and it is a wonder they are
not spoiled. Miss Sakaki is a Presby-
terrain, and Miss NaganO a Congrega-
tiOnaliSt, but they entered this school
in order to learn nursing in a temper
ance hospital. They say that in Japan
an alcohol made from rice is used in
discriminatory and with the most de-
mOralizing results, SO they wanted to
learn to nurse without the use of it in
any form.
Miss Sakaki has just returned from
a trip through the large cities of the
United States, studying the different
hospitals. She took a short course in
the cancer hospital in New York. She
is only about twenty-four years old
and in many ways looks like a child,
so tiny, with the most beautiful hands
Imaginable, in spite of her hard work
She is the daughter Of a member Of
the Japanese parliament, who is enor-
mOusly wealthy, and Miss Sakaki
looks every inch an aristocrat.
Miss Nagano is the only daughter
of a Japanese merchant. She has one
brother studying in the military uni
verSity of Japan, and another fought
in the war with China. She is very
poetical in her ma ture and her friends
say she writes most charming letters,
full of the poetic sentiment. They
speak English without the least accent,
and mastered the technical terms in
medicine with ease"
When seen yesterday Miss Saka XII
was seated by the window amusing a
group of convalescent patients. She
is usually very reserved and distant in
her manner, but she always relaXes
before patients. The hospital in Toxic
which these girls expect to manage
will be built with Miss Sakaki's money,
for she is wealthy in her own rights
Chicago Record.