New-York tribune., 1903-02-15

q, fou, volunteer nurses Each proved willing
to undertake the Job Of nursing the coioreu
man, who seemed to regard the invasion OIL hiS
room with philosophic indifference. The one as
signed to the case divested herself Of her auto
mobile coat removed her picture hat and SUD-
stituted the nurses cap, gave busnesslhe
glance around the poorly furnished room anu
set about arranging the bed with oe1t h'1hu''
nronnine the patient UP. smoothing the ruf1ed
pillows and applying to the unpromlslnS case
the lessons learned in the lecture rooli a. 'hN
Witherspoon Building.
The remaining three volunteer nurses left her
TO her work and travelled down narrow stair
wav into n sloppy little court, under dirty
arcbvav along a mean looking street, and so
in due time came to the house of an 1taiian
.oman whose baby had, with the perverseness
of the modern infant, developed summer COM
plaint in the heart of the winter Handicapped
by a large family of small children ana not
much helped by a fercey bewhiskered husband
who wore gold earrings, the mother of the in
FAINT was at her wits end.
The Vassar graduate took charge here. She
had the baby undressed, washed "a by no means
unnecessary proceeding), dressed in clean clothes
and feeding contentedly from bottle OF steiL-
l.: ! milk in a few minutes.
IF her people could see her now was the
comment of the remaining nurses the Nassar
graduate was left to her self-imposed task.
..They have forbidden her to do this and think
she is merely down town shopping. She simply
will do it and they may as well give in to her.
She might have worse hobbies. Now, they were
opposed to my going out in this way because
they feared that 1 would bring back all kinds
of disease germs. But have profited by the
lessons we have learned, and are very careful
not to run unnecessary risks
1t was not easy for newspaper writer to
see where the particular enjoyment of nursing
the sick poor came in, but at the next place
of call there was partial explanation in the
joyful greeting extended to the rest of the party.
At this house aged woman lay dying, ap-
)arenty of old age. Her daughter, who looked
almost as old as She although she said she
"only sixty-four" while her mother was well
along in the eighties, could barely find time to
stop work long enough to speak to the nurse
who was coming to relieve her of the duty of
attending the invalid. The volunteer nurses
descended on the octogenarian from opposite
sides of the bed, administered medicine shook
up her pillows. conjured delicacies from the
depths of the satchels, wiped away the tears
that Immediately began to flow from the old
woman's eyes and acted though this ancient
dame Were their nearest and dearest friend. To
the cynic it questionable enjoyment but
the girls seemed to like it.
Suddenly neghbor burst into the room
carrying child from whose head the blood was
flowing freely. The woman was as helpless as
the child. The cut not at all dangerous
hut looked terrible because of the amount of
blood flowing. 1t had no terror, though for the
nurses. Leaving her companion to attend to the
old woman, girl took the child from the
distracted mother, and in few minutes had the
wound washed and bound up, and the infant
sobbing contentedy in her arms
In typhoid cases. where constant attention
almost day and night is imperative, the girls
attend the patient in pairs, relieving each other
and never for moment suffering the ailing
one feel the lack of attention. The entire
campaign is planned daily at the Witherspoon
Building, where a secretary a volunteer like
the rest. receives the calls and assigns the