Evening star., 1903-10-30
THE NURSES SUCCESS
CONQUESTS NOT ALL IN COMBAT
WITH FEVERS.
Usually Attach Good Husbands as
Result of Experience at Beds
of the Sick.

An observer who has kept count both
through the newspapers and by private
statistics says that the trained nurse stands
head on the list of women who make good
marriages through their business associ-
atoms; that the private secretary comes
next with the professional housekeeper
little i'm her wake: that the governesses and
school teachers appear to have very slim
chance and the sdleswomen and women
engaged in commercial callings bring up
the end of the procession as regards the
converting of employers into husbands.
Occasionally an artist marries his model.
chemist weds the assistant in his iabora-
tory or dentist takes for his life partner
the young woman who helps him to keep
office. But till now the trained nurse has
made more havoc with the single blessed
ness of her employer, than has any other
order of worllingwomen. Various reasons
are assigned for her success In this par
ticular field
ITS the uniform says one. White is
50 becoming and gives young woman
such a look OF spotless innocence. Besides.
the cap is wonderfully fetching and such a
help to a girl who has not pretty hair or
who has not the knack OF arranging it
prettily.'
'It's because she appears VIXEN the victim
is in weak helpless. impresslonable con-
dition. She helps him out of a physical
hole, and natural gratitude serves to rivet
his interest. says another.
And another holds that ''it IL because the
nurse looks radiaptly healthful and
capable that she proves so attractive to the
man she is nursing. or In whose family she
is nursing. She understands the laws of
hygiene. is superior to nerves and is able to
keep tranquil at all times when all others
in the household are distraught and help
lesS-a picture to incite any mans admira-
ton.
But. whatever the secret the trained
nurse continues her conquest, transforming
her patients and her patients uncles and
fathers and brothers into bridegrOoms with
amazing facility. Even the nurse who Is
a profeSsed man hater and declares that
the only advantage in nursing men patients
Is that they pay better and have no long
hair to comb Will veer around and suddenly
annex some well-to-do patent for better or
for worse.
The apparently confirmed bachelor or the
widower whom his relatives believed sure
to leave all his property to them will sue
cumb To the magic of the trained nurse be-
fore the interested have time to object.
Usually Scores Success
Ard the nurse usually falls into good
hands when she marries. 1t Is as though
fate would make srnends for the drudgery
filled days of her probation a the hospital
or recompense her for the weary protracted
vigils and forbiddinG duties of the training
school. the hard knocks that were hers be-
fore she got up to the S30-a-week and never
Stay-up-at- night stage. The annals of a
certain school read like this
Miss A, fine-looking girl from Canada
one of the best nurses ever had; mar
ried last month to wealthy real estate
man. He was a widower of long standing
and she went there to nurse his nephew
who lived with him.
Miss b. rosy-"hecked. fair haired girl
from Iowa. She leaves us next week for
Philadelphia. The bridegroom is young
fellow she met while nursing his mother at
Lakewood last winter. He was summoned
TO the sick room fearing the worst and
took to the pretty nurse at once He is
slightly younger than she. but adores her
and the mother is ready to give her bless
ing
Miss c.. good-looking brunette: engaged
70 riCh business man In a southern city
lie was brought to the hospital In a Sc
rious condition. and she was one of the
nurses through long period of illness
IheN VIII be married soon as the house
Which he is having built after his own pla ms
IS finished.
Miss D., plump little nurse who had
"A maternal. winning manner even when she
first came to the school. has scored the best
match of all. She has married a New York
widower without children. who has already
settled much property on her, besides Civ
ing her unhounded facilities for helping her
own family. who are living in Maryland
and are poor"
The trained nurse may be said to be un-
commonly successful in attaching husba nds
worth the getting and keeping and her
chances of happiness are above the aver
age because from the very nature of her
position working woman she must be
loved purely and solely for herself And
the men she attracts are of Steady-g going
domestic types who love home and the sim
pier pleasures.