The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-13
THE NURSES GRADUATION
Continued from First Pagc9

SulGly ulluuly UespIStu UT uSS4SCNcu' have surely, in the profession with which you are to be connected, wei come aid and conservation.
 You build with flesh and blood; with cross material But everything worth having in the human creature must be on this solid bottom. A saint or philosopher is a precarious commodity, unless the box that holds the spirit is conserved.
 There is one thing in which We are all agreed; that the best hand to guard this casket is @ womans hand
 In whichever sex the rationale, the diagnosis of healing may be most safely placed, the administration of healing is rightly placed in a. womans hand. I do not know precisely why. It comes by nature-to be schooled by art-like mans muscu'sr power; from divination perhaps of motherhood, from a sense of sisterhood it comes, from the wisdom of the divine Fatherhood One sex honors itself in honoring the ministrations of the other. It was so in Eden. It will be so till Paradise is regained. Women can make our para disc again in sweet self service.
 I do not know if any one has ever found you, in past experience, in hours of ease, uncertain, coy, and hard to please, but now, in thought, and work and sacrifice when pain and anguish wiring the brow, a ministertng angel thous, mot to the chivalrous poet alone, but every sufferer shall find you to his need, or you will simply be un- sexing yourselves.
 This great, universally acknowledged privilege of womanhood has only one, true womanly way to be respected. It must be deserved, maintained, lived up to. All that is noble in woman, her soul power, her heart power, her life power, must be given to her service. Her will must be welded to her work. Then her honor will come, not in seek ing mere honor, but in obeying the commands Of her conscience. Rights and privileges are very fine words, but they will butter no parsnips, they will not heal the sick, they will not make a beatif1c vision for nurse from the Training school.
 Duties will. Duties done for the phy- sician, duties done for the patient, du- ties done to the unseen power that shapes all our moving accidents and incidents This above all To thine ownself be true, and it will follow, as the day the night. Then canst not then be false to anyone.''
 It comes home to me how very hard a nurses life must be. To be at the nd of rI physically distressed and perverted hu- man being, to home to endure the in- timacy of affiiction in excited, upset, and often morose, unclean, and openly repulsive households,-to be a servant and yet a guest, compromise with both and yet a full tender of neither to be held responsible for everything that goes wrong, and not have full credit for anything that goes right to give up day and night, body and soul, thought and hand, and then have it all repulsed by the inscrutablity of fate, or poisoned by the ingratitude of men,-musit be very hard. I had rather be sick myself-a little-than to nurse many of my acquaintances out of sick ness. People are ungrateful. A sad dest of truths. But then, patients are not always, only, under obligations. And, by the by, the nurses should re- member to get patients always well, if they would require them always to live and thank them.
 But I think of the compensation; 8 position assured, a money compensa- ton not scanb a mental acceptance great, an association with the science of time, a hand in the progress of the race. a l1aleidoscopic change of scene, 8 relaxation after each case, a study of character swift and keen, an insight indeed that only danger reveals-into the sublimities of the abysses of hu- man nature.
 do not know that every one would envy you this initiation But if the proper study of mankind is man, you will make prodigious progress. One thing am sure woman of principle will never forget, in all this, that the secret revelations of the sick room are as if they had never been revealed A family skeleton disclosed to a good woman, a good woman will hold her tongue, and hold the door inn pSlSLidDly upOll It.
 New Haven is proud of this Train ing school. All of it's citizens owe their respect and some of them owe their lives to the care of the graduates of this institution.
 Some of them, who have laid down their lives still testify. by their testa- mentary gifts, to their interest in its well being. You are beneficiaries of a very intelligent, warm-hearted, gen. erous class of women and men; and your services have no right to be only perfunctory.
 In this great university town I would think that the great university spirit would penetrate to this school of the fine art of healing. I believe that Light and Truth" the motto of the university, have been the texts here of all your instruction. I would re- joice to believe that the temper of all learning has taught you to be modest and simple and real. Perhaps the Yale spirit has invaded this gracious an- nax And the Yale spirit is always cor dial and vigorous and generous. It has been alleged that wooden limitations of real things have issued surrep.itiously from Connecticut. It has never been alleged that wooden nI1rses have issued from this COnnecti-