Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-12

alone. and l couldn't bear to see her In that
hnery,. She loved it better nor she did me.
and l hate it. There amt no use in living?'
Came to Remind Her.
Now it may be that the nurse was over
worked and exhausted, but she declares
that on the very same night the white-robed
figure walked beside her in the ward and
looked into her face with accusing eyes.
Again and again the vision appeared until.
in spite Of her determination to shake off
the idea, she went to the superintendent.
told the story, and was transferred to anoth
er ward. And this is another ghost that
walks for the benefit of tirnid ''probs."
AT local sanitarium for the insane was
started CHASTITY tale which saw its end a.
similar institution in New York. At the
first named the rates are sufficiently high
to assure the friends of private patients
that the institution is admirably conducted
But a scandal suddenly arose when Il was
learned that a patient lying at deaths door
had been fatally injured by an attendant.
Just before his death the patients reason
was restored, and. raising himself in bed,
he cursed the attendant and vowed he
would haunt him.
The nurse was relieved from duty and the
matter quickly hushed up. On securing
position in New York he was placed in
charge of a ward containing six patients
presumably mild and harmless.
Just on the stroke of L. one night some
unseen influence seemed to stir the maniacs
and they became unmanageable. In the
struggle that followed the attendant was
struck over the head with chair, and the
blow. which eventually proved fatal, landed
in the exact spot where but a few months
before the patient in the sanitarium had
been struck.
The dying man insisted that seven men
instead of six had set upon him. and that
the one who struck the blow was the man
he had killed.
The physicians in attendance thought
l.. ln1sr sal
the fellows past record more than one was
inclined to set aside the theory of delirium.
Cupid Pursues.
While the average female trained nurse
looks upon her profession with a most BUSH
nesslike eye Cupid sometimes enters into
her computations. A pretty girl often finds
the hospital ward but vestibule to matri-
mony. Some five years ago decidedly
pretty young woman took a course of
training at private sanitariun. and in due
time developed into a fairly efficient but
not particularly gifted nurse. To this hos
pital was brought the son OF a wealthy
family to be operated upon for appendi-
citis. The operation was pronounced sue
ceSSful and his convalescence was aus
piciously inaugurated. In few days he
began to view with favor the pretty young
woman who minstered to his needs. In
ten days his convalescence and his flirta-
ton were both progressing finely, when,
without any warning. unfavorable Symp-
toms set in and he died within few hours.
His pretty nurse was completely democrat
ICED and had to be sent on vacation. Her
agitation was attributed to affection for the
young man. for the entire staff had marked
the progress of the love affair. But on her
return she developed horror Of the instit'l-
ton and handed in her resignation. Before
finally leaving. she asked for an interview
with It's head and confessed the cause of
her patients death. He had begged so pitt
fully for relief from the liquid diet en-
forced by the physicians that her common
sense had yielded to her desire to please
him and she had surreptitiously given him
piece of stra wberry shortcake.
In the interests of the hospital the mat
ter naturally was never made public even
among the nurses. Nothing more was
heard of the girl until the Spanish war
broke out. when she was among the first
to offer her services. Later came word
that through her very devotion to f@r
work she had contracted typhoid malaria
and died. Today. at her old hospital post,
the new nurses whisper of the young girl
with the red cross on her arm who comes
back in the stiffness of the night to bend
over a certain cot, whether it be empty or
occupied, as if begging forgiveness Of its
occupant.