The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-05-18
BY AIKEN & sCHMAHl.
A TRAINED NURSE.
Mary Annable Fanfon Says Every Woman
Should be One.

might discourage matrimony i
every girl thought she had to pre-
cede her honeymoon with a weari
some four years course at a hospi
tai.
But what is really meant by this
expression of trained nurse" is
not hospital diploma but merely {
certain careful home training in the
essential work of the nursery which
will make the care of children bott
in health and sickness much cas-
Ter task than when undertaken In
Ignorance, however much the ig
norance might be coupled with love
and duty.
OF course the more affection an6
more devotion in the nursery the
better, but these two qualities al
their best cannot accomplish with.
out knowledge, what can be done
with intelligent training.
don't know why it is that the
expression ''doing a thing intelli
gently" always suggests a great deal
of effort and time, while the truth
is that the minute you know how to
do thing well, you begin to save
time and strength.
1t is not remedying evil but pre-
venting evil that makes life more
comfortable and more enjoyable.
And although there may be at times
unavoidable sickness In the nur-
sery, the mother with training can
unquestionably save her babies a
great many illnesses and herself
endless exhaustion if she knows
how to keep the nursery whole
some, attractive place and how to
do it easily and pleasantly.
OF course in the nursery, as in
the kitchen, the greatest preventive
of sickness is scrupulous cleanli-
ness. This does nst mean merely
the tidy sweeping and busting
which keeps room attractive and
which, of course, every mother does
instinctively and gladly: but the
sort of cleaning that disinfects, the
that routs the proud germ,
that is the undoing of the self-sat-
is6ed insect and that makes the air
of city room as sweet to breathe
as that of a log cabin in the noun
tains,
Now, it is part of the training
of the modern mother to find out a
way 20 do all these things easily as
well as thoroughly, and if she lives
in the city away from wells and els
terms her first difficulty in every
sort of cleaning is hard water. If
she actually attempts to get things
clean with hard water she uses up
her time and her strength so COM
pletely that she is soon worn out
and discouraged.
There are various ways of soften
ing water: amonia will do it and so
will different patent cleaning fluids,
but without exception they are in
furious to woodwork and ruinous
to hands. And it is not demanded
that any woman sacrifice all her
time, beauty and youth for house
hold work. 1t is training that puts
In the hands of the modern mother
a reasonable solution for almost
every domestic problem. And il
hard water and amonia hurt the
hands and cleaning fluids hurt the
furniture, then the trained woman
hunts about for something that will
clean without hurting anything.
And after much hunting and fire.
quent questions she has discovered
that the one thing that will make
water soft without injury, in fact,
with general benefit, is borax.
Borax will not only clean nicely
but acts as a gerlnicide and insecti-
eide as well. Physicians and
trained nurses recognize it as one
of the most harmless and simplest
purifiers known.
So that while the wise modern
woman is getting her nursery clean
with soft water that takes but little
time and energy, she is at the same
time disinfecting the room and des-
troying all possibility of germ life,
thus creating an atmosphere that is
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