Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1903-03-23

some nurses who 20 about their tasks
with the soured visage of an undertak-
er's assistant rather than with the Ia
diant face of one who is trying to cheer
up those who are pain racked and de-
pressed. They never seem to realize
that a true nurses facial expression
should be full of sunshine as well as
her fingers touch gentle and true.
But, outside of her duty toward the
patient, there is another reason why
the ideal nurse should be happy. Her
life is one of self sacrifice. 1t is a life
which has in it. sweet consciousness
that she Is trying to help her fellow
men. 1t Is not a life of mere money
making, as many suppose. After the
| trained nurse has taken out her legiti-
mate expenses she has little money to
save. 1t is a life of sweet and noble
self sacrifice. In 1899 Mr.. III. c. Fahne-
stock, wealthy merchant. gave $780,
| 600 to endow a training school for
nurses because he had seen two nurses
! tenderly care for his dying wife. He
knew they were worth all the help that
he gave; he knew that the ideal nurse
whom such an institution would devel-
op was woman capable of self sacri-
fee, woman who trusts in him who
said, ''He that loseth his life for my
| sake shall find it,
The Joy of Self Sacrifice.
Oh, the transcendent joy of the
| Christian nurses sacrifice for others!
1t is the same joy that came to that
young girl of DR.. Keigwin's church at
Wilmington, Del. Her little brother
had a diseased limb. The flesh over the
bruised bone would not heal The doc
tors told the father that unless they
could get some little child who was
willing to have her flesh grated on to
his he must die. The young sister
heard what the doctors wanted. She
offered to lie down and let her tender
felt that in the dangerous operation
both children might die. She finally
won his consent. There, for three long
weeks, the little girl lay with her arm
bound to her brothers while the flesh
was healing his wound, and during all
the time, with happy smile, she kept
saying: Brother is going to get well.
Yes, my brother, because l am lying
here, is going to get well.' Young wo-
men who are about to enter the nurses
profession, if you are to become ideal
nurses, this is to be your joy. You
will be happy because you will know
that your sacrifice and devotion and
faithfulness will save other lives. You
will have the sweet consciousness thai
| you have been able to lead a sufferer
back from the dark valley of the shad
ow Of death, or if you have to close
the eyelids of the dead, you will know
that you have been able to place theil
hands in the saving hand Of Jesus
Christian women about to enter the no
BILE profession of trained nurses, I con
graduate you. / give to you gospe
salutation. wish you godspeed.
l have chosen this subject of thu
Ideal NurSe" for two reasons: First,
want to remove the prejudice which il
harbored in many minds against hospi
tails and trained nurses. Some peopl
think that hospital is only an adjunc
to cemetery and that a trained nurs
in a hospital is not nearly as compe
; tent or faithful as the average mothe
caring for her sick child. The simpl
. fact is many a life would have beer
saved if the patient had been sent t
hospital instead of being kept q
home under the parents charge. Som
time ago was called to see a youn
girl sick with pneumonia. The pa
. tent lay in a room that was damp an
cold. The mothers every action prove
she was incompetent to care for the ii
valid | gently told her so and suggest
ed that she send her daughter to a hos
pital, where she could be properly care
for. She answered that that was Wha
the doctor wanted her to do, but sh
could not and would not let her daugf
ter be under any other care but he
own. Within few days the youn
D giEl died. l officiated at the funera
They had beautiful casket and pier
ty of flowers, but the whole serviC
seemed to me mockery. l do not sd
: that mother killed her child, but l
: say that if she had been taken to th
e hospital and received the right kind {
treatment the daughter might have n
: covered.
{ Second, have preached this sermo
= because want to throw wide open
door Of usefulness for Christian won
a en-. Nursing is essentially woman
/ work. 1t is as much a woman's VOL
: as caring for a baby is a mother
q work. Therefore l want to show
y young women field in which they CO
e not only make an honorable living, b
T in which they can do an infinite amour
e of good. Sisters and daughters, Chri
S tan girls, it is time for some of you
y stop learning to play upon the pial
n when you have no musical talent al
y trying to paint upon china when u
1t have no artistic talent and learn to I
Y | sc,,,otl,ircr ctical in the higher trai