The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-06-02

y the Daughters, resulting in their So
ciety being commissioned to provide
all hospital nurses sent to Cuba and
the camps in this country. This branch
of the work was delegated to the hospi-
tai corps of the society, which placed
itself in communication with all the
training schools for nurses and similar
institutions, anil from these sources
supplied the Government with over
one thousand trained nurses who had
passed through their rigid examination.
The same corps superintended the col
lection and distribution of hospital
stores, instruments and materials of
all kinds under the commendation of
the War Department.. Over $4,000
garments for personal use of the
wounded and disabled soldiers, bed.
ding, toilet articles and reading mat
ter were distributed by the corps be-
fore the summer of last year was over.
Tons of food supplies, medical instru-
ments, sponges, clinical thermometers,
listerine and delicacies ef all needful
kinds were furnished, estimated to he
worth over 100000. A novelty in the
way of diet kitchen was instituted
and maintained at the expense of the
society at Fort Mcpherson, which
has since been continued under the
same management at the Governments
expense. In each town at which long
stops were scheduled to be made by
the returning troops this corps had in
readiness band of nurses and other
devoted women provided with nourish-
ment and stimulants, and giving wei
come relief to the patriots who had
so nobly endured the horrors of that
summer.
The Nation is indeed to be congra-
tulated upon the existence of this
society in that crisis. No other organi-
zation could have been perfected in a
short time with such immense re-
sources, such enlightened membership
and bearing 50 completely the conf
dence and approval of the Govern
ment; and that it did it's work well,
and is continuing it, may be best learn
ed from the praises of the Surgeon
General and the officials of the War
Department generally, to which may
well be added the grateful prayers Of
the soldiers themselves.
The injunction OF Washington in his
farewell address to the American peo-
pie is embodied in their charter: "To
promote, as an object of primary i'm
portance institutions for the general
diffusion of knowledge" and one Of
the special objects in their organiza-
ton is stated in their charter to be
for educational purposes. With this
latitude the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, having won the con-
fidence of the Nation and the esteem
of our people everywhere, can spread
it's influence to the colonies, and ac-
complish in its simple, effective way
what the Government may take years
to bring about The educational sys-
tenn to he adopted, for instance, in
Cuba and Puerto Rico, cannot be de-
veloped along lines of our own insti-
tutions. Being primarily agricultural
countries the scope of educational
efforts must naturally be devoted
largely to this industry. And how
better to furnish competent nation
of farmers and mechanics for eventual
admission into our Union than to train
the Cuban and Puerto Rican infancy
in agricultural kindergartens. The
institutions of these schools, so
thoroughly perfected in Germany and
other European countries, would re-
suit in incalcula'.c benefits to our
colonies and could most effectively be
accomplished by the Daughters of the
American Revolution.-DaiIy Adcer-
tiscr Ncvark', n. j.