The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-06
Eocts of Interest
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Correspondents will please write the
names of their places of residence in
! full. Letters go astray daily because
the address is given merely as City
! There are forty-five Of these United
States and many cities in each State.
! I would like very much to have your
| advice on being a trained nurse l would
| like to enter some large hospital this fall
and thought I would write and ask you
| what one in Philadelphia would be a
good one, and also if one has to have
pretty fair education, and what ones
work is like when one first enters there.
| will be twenty-five in November. 1
quit school when was fifteen years old,
!. I think. NJ ~ r.
| shall keep this correspondents address
| in the hope and expectation that some
reader familiar with the laws governing
| Philadelphia training schools for nurses
| will forward to me the Information she
| needs The profession is noble and one
seeking to enter it should have intelligent
| assistance.
| 1. I would like to know. when you have
time, what BOOKS are good for a girl
| twelve or thirteen years old to read from
the public library. do not like history
! of any kind.
! 2. L wrote once to you asking what day
September 10, 1889, fell on, and have
| looked for an answer in your columns,
| but have not found it.
A CONSTANT READER.
! 1. II you want vacation reading" ask
| for Mrs A. D. T. Whitney's books-"Real
Folks" 1--WE Girls" Faith Garthney's
Girlhood," Leslie Goldthwaite's Sum-
r,er.' etc. Or Miss l.. NJ Alcott,s delight
full stories are never out OF date. And
| like Charlotte NJ Yonge's books-too
many to be named here
| .. If you knew how many other people
old and young and middle-a ged-write
to me asking as to dates and days. you
would wait patiently.
September 10. 1889, fell on Tuesday.
have often heard the expression
| ''Titian tnts'' used with regard to hair.
| and would like to have you tell me the
! exact meaning Of it VIXEN used in this
| connection.
! Also. let me know If 1t is q fact. that
| bananas. watermelons. and peanuts can
| not be bought in Germany. A German
| shoemaker in my neiGhborhood informed
| me that this is so, but I cannot believe
that these good things are not eaten at
| all in Germany. This shoemaker also
| states that no fruits at all are allowed to
| be imported into that country. Why is
| this?
| /. Titan was fond Of painting red
haired goddesses and saints. He affected
a peculiar shade of red gold, or golden
| red known since as Titan red"
| ?. While I have visited Germany sew
| eral times, found so many other things
/ to claim and to absorb attention, that
| the absence, or the presence, of bananas.
| watermelonS and peanuts in market and
menu made no impression upon my
| memory.
| It may be true that fruits are not i'm
| ported into that country, but I am in
clined to doubt the statement on this
/ point made by the worthy son of Crspin.
know that certain Continental countries
| have rules guarding against the possible
| Introduction CT diseases and insects-jus-
| tilted, in part. by infected pork and po-
tatoes. Cannot some intelligent German
give us positive data on this matter?
hope you will help me in matter
| which l lay before you. My brother has
become afflicted with deafness which. be-
| sides making him utterly miserable, Sc
| riously interferes with his business. He
has been treated by many eminent ply
sicians, but without renef., There is no
| trouble with the drums Of the ears. but
the doctors diagnose the trouble as
| catarrhal deafness, emanating from some
/ trouble with the throat.
1 What would ask is. will you lay the
matter before your constituents and re-
| quest them to advise me II they know OF
4 anything that will cure deafness which
seems to be caused by very simple
! affection?
Some one told you recently that he
knew a method for Strengthening eyes
/ which were crossed. Perhaps some one
else may know Of something that can
I, be done for one who is Just deaf enough
| to make him miserable. A. D. NJ.
| The method Of Strengthening eyes" Is
1 simple operation known to every ply
sician. eminent physicians" decide
/ that your brothers deafness proceeds 4
/ from an af7c1tinn OF the throat. the case
i is plain TiF eroat, and not the ear,
must be treated
You cannot have half as much cause
for confidence in the Intelligence and
nod Of T. hox,o