The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-14
FALL TO THE NURSES CHARM
DEADLY 70 BACWELORHOOD ~
THE SlCkROOM GODDESS.


sssterhssd. Conscious Of Nst Marry.
ins on 40 Easily--Or the Victim Il
Helpless-An Men Seem 70 Like Her.
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 associa-
tons; that the private secretary comes
next, with the professional housekeeper a
little In her wake: that governesses nd
schoolteachers appear to have very
slim chance. and that the saleswomen
and women engaged In commercial callings
bring up the end Of the procession as re-
CARDS the converting OF employers into
husbands.
Occasionally an artist marries his model,
chemist weds the assistant in his laboTa-
tory. or 4 dentist takes for his life partner
the young woman who helps him to keep
once. But till now the trained nurse has
made moro havoc with the single blessed
ness Of her employers than has any other
order Of working women. Various reasons
are assigned for her success in this partlcu-
lar field.
Its the uniform says one. white 10
20 becoming and gives a young woman
such q look Of spotless innocence. Besides,
the cap is worry fetching and a wonderful
help to a girl who has not pretty hair or
who has not the knack for arranging it
prettily.'
SITS because she appears when the
victim is in . weak, helpless, impressionable
condition. She helps him out Of physical
hole. and natural gratitude serves to rivet
his interest, says another. i.
And third holds that 1t is because the
nurse looks 90 radiantly healthy and capable
e nursing, or in whose family she is nursing.
She understands tho laws Of hygiene. Is
superior to nerves and is able to keep tran
gull at all times when all others In the house,
hold arc distraught andhelpiess-a picture
to incite any mans admiration
But whatever the secret. the trained
nurse continues her conqueste, transform.
ing. her patients and her patients uncles
and fathers and brothers into bridegrooms
! With amazing facility. Even the nurse
clares that the only advantage in hurting
men patients is that they pay her better
and have no long hair to comb. will veer
around and suddenly annex some well-to-
do patient for better or for wo7e:
the widower whom his relatives believed
sure to leave all his property to them will
succumb to the magic OF the trained nurse
before the interested have time to object
And the nurse usually falls into good
fate would mako amends for the drudgery-
filed days Of her probation at the hospital,
or recompense her for the weary. pro-
tracted Ngils and forbidding duties Of the
training school. the hard knocks that were
hers before che got up r. the sso-"-week
annals Of certain training school read
like this:
.Miss L., fne-lookine girl from Canada;
one OF the best nurses we ever had; married
H. Connecticut. He was a widower Of long
standing. and she went there to nurse his
nephew, who lived with him.
Miss P rcsy-cheeked, fair-haired girl
from Iowa. She leaves us next week FOR
she met while nursing his mother at Lake
wood In the winter He was summoned
10 the sick room fearing the worst and took
10 the pretty nurse at once. He Is slightly
younger than she, but adoree her, and the
'Miss <. !'good-iooEing brunette-engaged
to a rich business man In a Southern city
He was brought to tn" hospital in a serious
condition and sha was one OF his nurses
through = long period Of illness and con.
a. the houss which he Is having built after
Miss W., plump little nurse, who had
q maternal, winning manner even when
she first came to the school, has scored the
Boston widower without children, who has
already settled much property on her be-
sides giving her urbounded facilities for
helping her own family. who are living in
Virginia and are poor
The trained nuree may be said to be I'M
commonly successful In attaching hus-
bands worth the getting and keeping,
and her chances Of happiness are above
the average, because from the very nature
Of her position as a working woman she
self And the mon she attracts are of the