The morning times., 1895-11-10

| patient is III bed, cooking for the sick room,
| and what TO do IN emergencies like hys
| terra, insomnia, fever and pain. But equal
| in Importance to all OF this is Tact, with d
| large IT,
There is great deal of sentimental trash
written about the relations of patient and
nurse Their relations are those of a fee
| ble-minded child-as the patient tempo
rarily is-and firm. sweet, capable wo-
man, nothing more, nothing less. The
child may fall in love with the woman. but
the woman feels a great barrier of superi-
ority to the child.
THEIR RELATIONS.
OF the twenty nurses that have been sent
to nurse sick bachelors this fall three have
come back reporting proposals of mari
age. Poor feIlowr laughed one, open
!lng a case of books and a box of flowers
that had just arrived; ~he begged me to
stay longer. Said he couldn't eat his din
ner, he knew, without me to read TO him
and make him forget he wasn't hungry.
And when l told him that / had a call to
another patient, be said:
Miss Alacia, If / can't keep you any
other way I'll marry you! But you won't
have me because LIN such brute some
times. Then take Jack Jacks the flow er of
the family, and you1l stay here then
l didn't dare TO tell him l was going TO
ihhN Noit VI Iub IL is Il
friend of his, and lie " i'll see me the first
time he goes out TO make a call"
Il had queer patient once chatted
one Of the girls, for it was a social even
ing in nurses bosrding-huuse, and all
were telling experiences. He was blind
in queer way. One eye was sightIess
The pupil of his only eye W rs out OF PLACE
1t moved like a rowing ban inside the
eyc-ball. "A times it " ould come TO the
right Snpf and fnr a ,i1inTrtp q tp yrf fri
in perfect focus, clear as day. Then all
was darkness for him. Nothing could be
done for him. As he " as very wealthy he
kept having consultations OF PHYSICIANS
and / was nurse for the last consultation
as the doctors hoped to help him. He was
Wild with nervousness for days before
while was feeding him TO get him in good
condition.
- 1 saw for a full minute three fla vs. ago.
he said to me the other day, and | noticed
you had rearranged the chairs. VIII you
flX the furniture so that / shall have some
thing new to see when my eyes give me
sight a gain for q minute?'
An idea came across me, aud stepped
TO the long glass over his dressing table.
/ placed it opposite him. BY his side I
stood another mirror from the next room
and over his head balanced another Be-
tween the mirrors l set tall palms. Some
thing told me he would see again soon.
mo sooner had / done this and stepped
back to view my work than there came
an awful yell. i can see! ! can seer
shouted my patient, and you have built
me bower of flowers. Oh, God, oh, God,
IL it could only last
ut was over in minute: sight was gone
But he talked oil day about his glimpse
of fairy land Poor fellow, he had never
seen into a mirror before"
The age limit for a trained nurse is
thirty-five for beginning. But nearly all
don the cap and apron at eighteen. and at
thirty-five are mothers OF families, wives
of husbands husbands of wives, and the
closest of family friends, for they have in
fifteen years filled every post of respon-
sibility in hundreds of households.