Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-09


and observed the soothing, calming
effect on the fretful, cross and weary
little one but that must realize the per-
suasive mower of the human voice. IL
the nurse cannot sing she will cultivate
her voice daily and develop the ability,
for music will often soothe the sick and
suffering TO sleep and rest.
The nurse should have sound cOnsti-
tuition able TO endure service and hard
ship. and have due regard for her own
health. Get rid of the slightest ailment
promptly. Take fresh air, sunlight and
exercise at regular intervals and while
regulating the patient, also regulate
herself. A half sick irritable nurse with
nerve ends exposed, fore head wrinkled,
woe BECOME countenance, dlsordered
stomach and liver, full of fussiness and
abruptness of manner, thinking and
acting as unpleasant rs she feels, should
take Il vacation or treatment at SAM
tarium.
If the patient has cultivated her
powers of observation as the nurse
should. and the face is the index of the
thoughts, she will know by the physiog-
nomy that there is decentralization of
the nerve functions and physical bank
ruptcy, and that her nurse has no
strength 10 loan at any rate of remuner-
ating and is as difficult to get accOmmo-
dation from, as bank several months
before presidential election.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox says
Mo- the two kinds of people mean
Are the people who lift, and the people who lean,
| Wherever you 20 Won will find the worlds masses
Are always divided in just two classes.
| And oddly enough YOU will find. too ween.
! There is only one litter to twenty who lean.
| In which class are youy Are you easing the load
| OF oyertaXed fters who toll down the road?
Or are You "A leaner, who lets others bear
| Your portion Of labor and worry and carer
| We can answer the first query for
You ladies and gentlemen, in the affirm
ative. The fact that you have deliber
ately chosen this calling is ample
| evidence that you are worker. How
ever much instruction you may receive
| YOU must still win your own way. You
| should be the embodiment of energy
and vigor The world has very small
place and less use for the INDECENT and
lazy anywhere Never do anything
today YOU can defer till tomorrow and
YOU may not have to do it at ALL is a
motto that don [ work. If you thus act,
tomorrow someone else will be doing
the work while you, Macawber like,
will be still "N aiting for something TO
turn up. There is always room for
skilled labor in everything of life and
people are willing to pay well for intel
ligent service If You do good work your
compensation will be commensurate.
The browning event of the last meet
ing of the American Assn to Promote
Teaching o. Speech TO the Deaf was the
oral address of Helen Keller the famous
deaf and blind girl She is declared by
her teachers to be the brightest girl of
her age not excepting those in possession
Of all their physical senses. With a
smile on her face and no sign of embar
rasment she took the platform before
large audience, to talk on the value of
speech to the deaf. She said in part eff
YOU knew all the JOY feel in being able
TO speak to you today. | think you would
have some idea of the value of speech TO
the deaf and would understand why [
want every deaf child in all the whole
world TO have an opportunity to learn TO
speak. 4. | cannot under
stand how anyone interested III our
education can fail to appreciate the
satisfaction we feel in being able TO
express our thoughts in living words.
Ny little sister and baby brother love to
have me tell them stories in the even
ings when | am at home, my mother
and sister ask me TO read TO them from
my favOrate books | also discuss the
political situation with my dear father
and we decide perpleXing questions as
satisfactorily as if could see and hear
So you see what a blessing speech is to
me- 1t makes it possible for me to
enjoy the sweet cOmpaniOnship Of a
great many persons from whom | should
be cut off if | could not talk. | remem
her. before | learned TO speak. how |
used 10 struggle to express my thoughts
by the manual alphabet; how my
thoughts used to beat against my finger
tips like little birds struggling to obtain
their freedom until one day Miss Fuller
opened wide the prison door and let
them escape in speech. 1t seemed to
me sometimes | never could use my
speech wings as God had intended,
there We're so many difficulties and
discOuragements, but | kept on trying
and | want 10 say TO those trying 20
learn, be of good cheer, no effort we
make TO obtain some good is ever lost,
somehow we shall find what we seek
We shall speak, yes and sing too, as
God intended we should speak and
sing.
Miss Keller reads the motion of the
lips by mere laying the forefinger upon
them and understands everything her
teacher says when talking at the rate of
two hundred words minute. She
entered Radcliff College this fall having
passed entrance examinations and she is
but is years old. What is the secret of
her success in overcoming the almost
inconceivable Obstacles, in emerging
from the utter hopeless darkness into
this achievement of speech and intelli-
gent daylight: 1t is the intense and
unswerving concentration of her every
faculty upon the one great object of self
improvement. Compared with an
aspirant like this what wretched spend
thrifts of time and talents are even the
most renowned and exemplary among
the multltudes that pity her.
Since education and life are INSOFAR
able, identical, continuous and never
ceasing, what may we not accomplish
by using such power Your education
here and elsewhere includes more than
formal study, books alone are not suffi-