The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-04-04
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE AS TODAY AT 77-rHE cR1-
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MIND

London, April LIN a trif1e more
than a month the seventy-seventh
birthday of Florence Nightingale will
be celebrated, and the old lady, now
fast approaching the close of her long
life, will be inundated with loving mes
sages from thousands of high and low
degree, from the queen to the crippled
veteran. once an humble private in the
Crimean war.
Not many birthdays remain for Miss
Nightingale. For 20 years she has
been practically an invalid, almost
since the day she set foot on English
soil after her return from the fetid
hospitals of the Levant. Only the other
day she wrote to a friend: I am my
self always a prisoner from illness and
overwork" Her constitution was per-
manently wrecked by her two years
labor on the battlefield and in the hos
pital but in these two years she earned
a place in the history of all time After
the close of the Crimean war a dinner
was given to the military and naval
officers who had served in the cam
paAgn, and it was suggested that each.
guest write on slip of paper the name
of the person whose services during
the Crimea would be longest remem-
bered by poSterity. There were hum
only one name mentioned, and that was
Florence Nightingale
Miss Nightingale now spends most
of her time at Clayton, the beautiful
home of her nephew. son of her sister,
the late Lady Verney, in Buckingham
shire. At long intervals she goes to
London to the Verney town house, but
these visits are becoming rarer, as the
journey is too fatiguing. Miss Night
ingale, however, is as mentally bright
and as strong as ever, and her interest
in all branches of hospital work has
never suffered a decline through her
physical inflrmities She has been
deeply interested in the relief work eX-
tended to the famine and plague suffer-
ers in India, and has had much cor
respondence with the heads of the vari-
Gus relief societies on the subject.
THE NIGHTINGALE HOME.
She also keeps abreast with all the
doings of the Nightingale home, an in
stitution for the training of nurses,
founded Immediately after the close of
the Crimean war Parliament voted
gift of e50,000, or $3.50, 600, to Miss
Nightingale on her return to England,
as a recognition of her services, but
she declined the money for herself and
it was used to establish the Nightin-
gale home.
an and was considered a great heiress
in her youth. Her father was William
Shore Nightingale, of Embley Park,
Hampshire, and of Lea Hurst, Derby
shire. two Of the finest of the old time
estates in England. She was co-heiress
with her sister of her fathers wealth,
and were she so inclined a brilliant
life in the fashionable world was as
SuFed her.
Miss Nightingale was born in Flor
ence in May of 1920, while her parents
were touring Italy. She was named
after the CITY of Flowers and she
has been called "a song bird from the
land OF flowers" During her in
fancy her parents returned to England
and made their home at Lea Hurst an
old Elizabethan manor house, where
her childhood and young womanhood
were passed.
She and, her sister were educated