The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-27
Inter esting Function at st. Marks
Hall Last Evening.
CLASS OF YOUNG LADIES
MISSES DAISY HARRON, MATTE
LOCKWOOD, LAURA WILLIS.
Address By Rev. Clarence T. Brown
and Presentation of Diplomas By
Bishop Leonard-Graduates Were
Fairly Loaded With Presents,
Flowers and Congratulations.

The third annual commencement of
the nurses training school of ST,
Marks hospital was held in st. Mark s
hall last night. The class is composed
of Misses Daisy Harron, Matte Rock
wood and Laura Willis.
The hall was very prettily decorated
with flags and potted plants. On the
platform were seated Bishop Leonard,
Rev. c. T. Brown. Rev. Ellis Bishop.
II. c. Hunting, DR.. D. D. Wallace, Drs.
BascOm, Bower, Worthipgton. Behle.
and George NJ. Scott, H. c. Wallace
The nErses of the hospital, attended
by Sister Mary, were present in body.
The exercises were oOened with
prayer by Rev. Ellis Bishop, followed
with some opening remarks by Bishop
Leonard, who stated that the training
school was started four years ago, and
eight had already finished the work,
the present class numbering three.
REV. BROWNS ADDRESS.
Rev. c. T. Brown delivered the adj
dress of the evening. He said in part:
Before extending to you our con-
CALCULATIONS upon these diplomas which
you have earned, and the course or
training by which you enter the ranks
of the modern profession of trained
nurses l cannot refrain from congrat-
ulating you upon the good fortune or
your birth, which placed you by direct
descent in the most ancient and hon
cradle order in the world, the order OF
womanhood. 1 have no doubt that the
first nurse in the world was the first
woman. Not a trained nurse, to be sure,
but . nurse nevertheless, a nurse by
divine right, whose credentials were
written by the hand of God in the
fleshly tablets of her loving heart.
Mother Eve was doubtless the first
nurse. She worked at a great dlSad-
vantage, to be sure; her equipment was
mea ger, and the assortment of ailments
which she had to treat limited. She
lived before the time when pagan
priests adopted the art of medicine to
enlarge their power over the suDerst1-
tiouS fears of their DariShlonerS; De-
fore the doctors had invented so many
diseases to stimulate their practice.
But even with all these drawbacks L
have no doubt she h many calls upon
her mother heart and her mother Wit;
accidents to meet, pains to soothe and
tears to dry. Tears have always held
about the same percentage of bitter
salt, and over against them God has al
ways set the sweet balm of woman's
inherent gentleness and heavenly
mercy.
FLORENCE Nightingale once said:
Every woman is a nurse-how valu-
able, then. would be the product OF
their united experience, if every woman
would think how to nurse
Every training school for nurses is
an attempt to realize these words In
actual fact: a place where woman's
natural talent for nursing may be given
the benefit OF the discoveries and eX-
periences of the past and by intelligent
discipline brought to their finest de-
velopment.
LAS citizens of Salt Lake we must all
be clad for such a place as that in
which you have been studying and
working for the past three years, and
ever grateful to the man or men who
founded it, to those who gave their
money, and to those who gave, what is
of even greater value, the impetus OF
a noble passion for humanity, who gave
their skill to heal its wounds. to fight
it's levers and to relieve its SufferingS,
and to establish training school where
the willing hands of earnest women
might he taught a finer skill and
more intelligent service. As st. Pauls
is Wrens monument, and the admiring
gaze of those who look upon its stately
walls are his best tribute of praise. so
must the institution in which you have
been trained and from which you go
into an honorable and faithful service
be the best reward for the devotion of
those who laid its foundations.
Rev. Brown said that some people
regarded it improper for lady nurses
to go among sick men, but much of
this prejudice is being wiped away. The
Red Cross has gone on with such work
to q glorious success. He warned the
nurses that they would meet people
who looked sensible, but they are likely
to disappoint you, for one is quite diff
ferent when sick, and they would have
to have a high sense of duty to keep
their nerves steady in such cases.
After rhe sick soldiers won laurels
at San Juan they won greater honors."
volunteered to go to Siboney to be
nurses in yellow fever cases. Yours is