The morning times., 1895-11-10

! ilau 10 zeal with IS SHOWN Dy telegram
now preserved in one of the hospitals in
| New York city
NURSES QUALITIES.
"send your most capable nurse at once.
| Must be able to talk, read aud sing: must he
! good-natured enough to be kicked
Twenty sweet faced young women wear
ing the cap and apron of the order of Tn. ine ed
| nurses have been kicked, sworn at and
| abused during the last few weeks. But for
all twenty there has been the word of
praise uttered by the young man in the
first line of this article: ''She is an angel
undisguiscd.'
Trained nurses say that bachelors, no
matter whether young or old, are the most
difficult patients in the world To take care
Of One young woman begged a hospital
superintendent, when n certain very rich
bachelor was sick in September: Don't
send me there. I'll take all the teethinC
Goies and all the nervous old women,
but don't give me fretty bachelor" Yet
the bachelors, poor fellows, must be cared
for and no one can do il but the soft
handed, gentle voiced woman nurse.
When a trained nurse steps into Il house
hold i'll obedience TO the doctors call she
carries with her small gripsack. In five
minutes she has slipped into a dark gown.
tied on an apron, pinned on her cap, and
Is sitting by the patients side. She asks
no questions. In few minutes the sub
dued hight of the room becomes familiar to
her eyes, she rises, moves around. reads the
directions left by the doctor, lowers a
window shade, twists q paper screen be
fore an ugly glare, moves away the clutter
of things that have been worrying the pa
tient with fantastic shapes, and by the
time she has seated herself by his side
there is snug air of comfort, wave of
peace over the entire room.
GETTING HIM ASLEEP.
what have you done with the medicine
bottles?" asks the patient.
Given them to the other nurse"
Where is she?-'
IN the next room. Shall i call her?'
mo, you'll do. Going to stay here?
You'll find me an awful, a 9fui--" the
words are dying slO WY away. The patient
is falling asleep, and the nurse, who has
been warned that insomnia is all that is
keeping her patient sick. smiles with a
gratified air. NO wonder he couldn't
sleep, with five medicine bottles in a row
staring at him. she says, as she tiptoes
out to consult the other nurse for when
bachelors are to be cared for the trained
nurses go in pairs. There is not one who
would be willing to take the responsibility
alone.
Giving medicine Is the first ordeal that
is to be met. Say, I'll promise to get
well III you VIII let up on that black
stuff for nerves." said man patient to the
nurse he had had only an hour.
And I'll promise you to let up on the
black stuff if you will stop being nervous"
was the quick reply. "Is it bargain?'' as
the spoon and bottle came out
Have l got to take it now?" asked the
patient.
mo; not until I've told you story. We
always tell stories when we give medicine
Do you like stories?"
'Ye-es," reluctantly, for the patient
scented a subterfuge.
Every well. 1 will tell you one about
patient who always interrupted me.
Whenever tried to say anything to him he
always broke in with an Interruption,
word. He was the rudest man ever saw"
'.I should think soi''
"Yes, he vast Fact! One day said to
him: If you open your mouth again win
prop 1t open with a stick SO you can't close
1t all day And he said: Show mellow
II got q peg just like this pencil and