The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-24
ideas for UWu1uem.

Inena- Jney write luulefoaS business lee-
tiers. One hears this sentiment on every
hand among business men as especially,
too. among the different class of women
who have in hand the examination of
young girls aspiring 10 a professionally
chat of a professional nurse. librarian,
ETC.. says a writer in the Philadelphia
sPress.s
And in this age when we hear so much
ard so often about the rafting pace with
which woman is hurting herself into
mans domain, its truth or is falsity is
rather an important. For what will IT
avail a woman If she knows the ins and
outs Of Esoteric Buddhism and is not fa-
miIiar with the gentle art of the pocket
dictionary?
But to come down to statistics. When,
a few months ago, 1 went among the best
known and most successful nurses in Phil
adelphia to ask for a little chat for read
ers Of the wornan's Page concerning the
question. What Qualities Are Most Neces-
sary TO Make a Good Nurse?" + was met
on all hands by the following Notifying
information, werded more or less SINH
larly:-
Yes. We vi hundreds of girls come
to us each year in order to pass hospital
t@UittAttdlaDAfc u TIE
country girls who aspire to the professions;
city girls as nice as we could ask. But
an examination in common school rudi-
ments e necessary. This much knowl-
edge of elementary studies should be pos
sessed before the girl arrives at the hos
pital. But in so many cases it is just
the opposite. You would be surprised to
see the spelling and phrasing of those in
telligent looking girls. It is awful. to
say the least. Not one-half. nor nearly
one-half. of the young women who turn
up here and want to be admitted to our
training school can write a short letter
through without a couple of o~rthograph-
lead errors.'
In inquiring of the women who nave
In charge the examination for entrance
to the library course in some of our large
Philadelphia Institutions the report was
iamentablv the same. .Hundreds of girls
fail with us. of course. on account of
their wre5ched photography. And wretched
is the name for 1t. You see we are not
here for the purpose of teaching young
women the rudiments of spelling. They
cont come to us for that. They come to
US TO work. It IS understood that they
know enough Of other things to begin 10
grasp cur branch Of labor Yes. I
wish I could show you some of the letters
which our young aspirants write and
think they are really spelling"
Inquirsng among business men who
have occasion to employ young girls. as,
for instance. several managers of large
dry gonds houses ctr The a,as4ion
evoked a smile DO girls spell badly2
I should saw SO. Whether II is v,orsa
than the average boy will not say. I
don't say that the young bows and men
whom examine are paragons in that d.
rect'on, but only shat the girls certainly
are not They dent know the most or
mary rules and laws Or they don't put
mem n practice,
= d1nos' every case the examiners
~ seriously against any
. sealhg out % fal N this vital
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