The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-08
FEMININE PYR0TECHNICS.

FEMININE PYR0TECHEICS.
Those wishing TO obtain any information
pertaining TO the Red Cross mission work
may address Mrs John King Van Rensse-
laer No. 40 East Twenty-ninth street, New
York city. Mrs. Van. Rensselaer, is Chairman
of the auxiliary work of squadron A, Red
Cross Hospital Equipment association. an
Organization recently established and under
the direction of Mrs. Charles F. Roe The
object OF this auxiliary is, as the rame i'm
plies. to promote the work of the American
Red Cross Mission society, Of which Clara
Barton is president.
The requisite qualifications for man or
woman wishing to enter active service In Red
Cross work is practical experience knowledge
of the duties of general hospital work or
that acquired by study or a course of lsc-
lures similar 10 those known as first aids
TO the injured. given under the ST. Johns
Ambulance association. Such lectures are
given regularly in ali medical colleges and
also come under the head of science as
taught in colleges or as the subj,cc CT lee
lures in scientific societies and clubs where
such matters are included in the course of
study.
DR.. Lesser, of New York, says: What the
Red Cross needs in this war is larger male
service and l wish men would volunteer
as women have done. number have already
volunteered but we want more. We want
men who can carry stretchers and do rough
work. Experience has taught that the Red
Cross has never yet in time Of war had
sufficient number Of men to save the soldiers
who might have been saved
Miss Barton having left for Cuba sas de-
ha cd itaI or
23S West One Hundredth street, New York,
the medium of the society to provide
physicians. surgeons and nurses and such
materials as may ne needed in attending the
wounded whenever required by the govern
ment authorities. Subscriptions of money and
all contributions of any nature may be re-
ferred here to further establish a center of
organization; a finance committee has been
appointed to cooperate with the regular
officers of the Red Cross society in direct
furtherance CT the objects thereof. This
committee is composed of the following well
known people August Belmont, John P.
Faure, ex-commissioner of charities and
public corrections; Norris X. Jessup. Of ma
tional museum of national history; Alexander
z. Orr, president of the chamber of COM
merce; Rev. Henry C. Potter, A. S. Solomons,
agent of the Baron de Hirsch fund; Freder-
Eek D. Tappan. president of the Gallatin Ma
tional bank; DR.. George F. Shrady and DR..
+. Gailiard Thomas, consulting surgeon of
the Red Cross hospitals; DR.. a. L. Lesser and
William T. Wardwell, president of the Stand
ard Oil company.
A moments serious thought will convince
ell those interested in the + ed Cross move
ment, that to be of actual service In 1t, as
a nurse to the wounded of battle applicants
must not only be skilled in the duties Of nurs-
ing, but they should be experts. The wounded
in battle are not subjects Of study and de-
liberation, but they must meet with ready
and proper attention at the moment A
woman understanding the duties Of a nurse
frequently takes in her hands g. human life,
and viewed from this standpoint, no vocation
followed by a woman is more sacred, more
serious, more binding. and none should be
followed with more elaboration and more
actual appreciation of what 1t really MEANS
Atlanta Constitution.
Now comes the wringing Of the mothers.
wives and daughters hearts as they wait for
and receive the news Of the loved ones who
fight their way to victory, and perchance to
DEATH in the struggle Of contending nations.
From Monday until Wednesday and Thursday
they waited in agony of sus4 Anse for news
of their sailor boys who struck for the free
dom Of the women OF another land. That
waiting was the fiery test of patriotism.
A Chicago young woman applied lately for
q place nurse. Maj. Ennis said to her:
ST 1 take a nurse she will have to have
face like the broad side of an apple pie for
you see the general would not stand it If all
my men were playing sick in the hospital"
Grace Filkins, the actress, Of the Charles
Coghlan company, will go to the front as a
Red Cross nurse. She is the wife of Lieut.
Commander Adolph Mark, the Judge advo-
cate of the Maine inquiry board, and the pres
ent commander of the Scorpion
The National Society of Colonial Danes
have $500 to their credit on Surgeon General
Van Reykens books, the money having been
given to provide delicacies for the sick and
wounded on the ambulance ship, Solace. dur
ing the war.
The wife Of Maxine Gomez commander-in-
chief of the insurgent forces in Cuba is an
American woman. Her name before marriage
TO the great old soldier was Miss Pink Mar
tin, and she a daughter Of Henry Martin
of Nails Creek, East Tennessee. She mar
Sled Georgia man. and after he died she
went to Havana, and there met Maximo Go
mez Whom she married shortly afterward.
AS the Martin family was an old and wealthy
one, Mrs. Gomez has had all the advantages
social and educational, of a refined and
cultured American woman.-New York
or course We are glad to have male
applicants said Sister Eva Dilworth. who
Us in charge of the New York Red Cross
hospital. and is busy examining applicants.
but the men come in all stages Of decrepi-
tude. so infrm that 1 don't see what thew
could do on a field CT battle unless an ambu.
lance went along to carry them To one
nice old man, hobbling on two canes. but
anxious to go, 1 said: Mercy! What could
you do; you couldn't possibly carry wound
ed man off the feld?' And he answered
Why, you wouldn't expect an old man 10
do that alone. would your
Mrs Armory has had wide practical OK
pcrience in addition to a scientific COURSE
at Provident hospital. OF Chicago, and has