Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-10-07
HONORABLE TIGER MISS
: Specimen of the Trained Nurse in
Jnpnn-A Cha rming At
- fendaDt. "

- Japanese trained nurse! 1t is hard
o say why the idea strikes us as odd,
!or Japan is provided with excellent
physicians and hospitals, and the en-
press is herself president OF the Jap
anese Rcd Cross. Nevertheless, if we
I'D something surprising in the
thought, there is much tha, is winning
II the embodiment, if O"rora San, the
'nrse described by Mrs. Hugh Fraser
II q recent volume Of "reminiscences,
nay be taken as fair specimen.
She was barely four feet high"
writes Mrs. Fraser. Her complexion
vas dark, her feet were cncased in
white linen socks with divided toes and
shod with dainty straw sandals With
green velvet straps.
Her figure, the shape Of very soft
Gather pillow, was drapcd in tight
lifting white apron with Il large bib,
md she was kept inside her buttonless
md string]ess clothes by cruelty
light and wide leather belt put on over
apron and all. Into this belt, holding
Ter breath for a long time first, she
,ould with great effort push her fat
silver watch, her clinical thermometer,
Two or three yards of japanese letter
(which she would read a foot at a time
when she thought | was asleep, her
carefully folded paper pocket handker-
chief, and the relentless little regis
Ter in which she noted down, from
right to left, cabalstic signs with
WHICH she and the doctor coniured
very morning till they knew all the
sins my pulse and temperature had
been committing.
"ller name was O'Tora San-IIon.
Tiger Aliss-but her ways were those
Of the softest pussy that ever purrcd on
domestic hearth rug and OH, what a
curse she was: So gentle, so smiling,
SO delightfully."- sorry for one!
IL have often caught the tears run
ming down her little brown nose when
The poor Ollusama was extra bad; and
through long nights Of pain has she sat
On her heels on a corner of my bed,
tanning ME ceasclessly with the all
but inperceptib!c tiutter Of the fans
sdge-a movement only possible for
those wonderfully sensitive japanese
fingers, but most refreshing to the
famed one
When it was time for her meals, nv
maid O'Matsn would creep into the
room, having shed her sandals at the
door, and after inquiring about my
health, would make deep and grace
full obeisance to Hon. Tiger Miss, and
inform her in respectful whisper that
her honorable dinner was ready.
"The polite little Tiger would jump
up, return the bow, ask permission
70 depart, and slip out to feed on fish,
pickles (such dreadfully strong smell
ing picllles) and rice, washed down
with thimblefuls of green tea or fish
soup. ~"
After about Is minutes Of solid feed
ing, she would return, como up to my
bedside, and express her gratitude for
the meal supplied her. Then she would
drop down on the cushion in the cor
ner, and with the calm unconvention-
atty peculiar to her race, let out a
coupie Of holes in the leather belt"
Her ugly uniform discarded, how
ever, and arrayed in her own dove gray
kimono and wide sash. as her patient
afterward often saw her, the queer lit
tie lady became as charming as she was
|ruaint-the very demuresJ and dainti-
lest Of domesticated Tigers.-Youth's
Companion.