Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-18
NURSES GRADUATE
FIVE YOUNG WOMEN RECEIVE ri.
PLoMAS FROM oTTUMWA
HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION.
Commencement Exercises Held Last
Evening in the Assembly Room of
the Y. w. c. A.. - Rev. F. F. Stoltz
and Or. A. o. Williams Talk.


: From Fridays Daily.
The graduation exercises of the OF
tumwa Hospital association, held last
evening in the Y. w. G. A., was one Of
the simplest, prettiest and most en-
joyable events of hospital commence
ments given here for some time. Five
nurses were presented with diplomas
out of testimony of the completion OF
the requirements of the Ottumwa hos
pital. The exercises were held in the
assembly room of the association
which was prettily decorated for the
occasion. The graduates, gowned in
1 their usual costumes, were seated on a
| platform in the front, around which
was mass of ferns and potted plants
Mrs. D. H. Emery, president of the
hospital introduced DR.. F. F. Stoltz
who gave the opening address.
Rev. stoItz Talks.
DR.. Stoltz began hts address by
telling Of Zion City, which place he
had visited. The inhabitants of Zion
renounce the healing art of physicians
and nurses and claim they have the
right system of healing. He then
cited an instance which illustrated to
him the high calling of the trained
nurse. 1t was in two pictures which
are seen quite often in offices of ply
sicians. The first is the picture of
the doctor watching over the little
sick child after all had forsaken it.
The faithful doctor is there watching
diligently with the ardent hope that
life will remain. The companion pic
ture is the one where the nurse, like
a vigil, is watching through the long
hours of night, not thinking of her.
SELF but whose mind is occupied with
the thought of her patient at touches
my heart profoundly" said DR.. Stoltz.
whenever l pass the hospital and
when inside where such good work is
being done. I believe that Gods hand
is ever present"
Congratulated Nurses.
Dr. Stoltz concluded his address by
congratulating the nurses upon choos.
inS such grand work for their pro-
fession and for completing their
course Of study. "The self-sacrificing
duties entailed in the noble service of
a nurses profession" continued DR..
Stoltz, "is worthy of our utmost ap.
probation, and I want you to know,
graduates, that deeply appreciate the
work you have done and are now fit
ted to better perform"
The schumann Quartet.
At the close of the address by DR..
Stoltz, the ever popular Schumann
Ladies' quartet sang Haitian
Kjerulf's Last Night" The rem.
dition merited the applause given
and the quartet responded with
"The Dixie Kid" Dr.. A. o. Will
liams followed with an interest
ing address. Water Lilies" was
then sung by the Schuman quartet,
after which remarks were heard from
Miss Elizabeth Trotter, superintendent
of the hospital, and Mrs. D. H.
Emery, president of the hospital asso-
citation. The graduates were then pre-
sented with diplomas by Mrs. Emery.
Following the exercises the nurses
were driven to the hospital, where
Miss Elizabeth Trotter and Miss
Emily May Trotter rendered them a
reception. Besides the graduates, the
following were present: Misses Maud
Lewman, Gertie Williams, Ida Miers,
Edith Hargihermer, Mrs. Haw Beckett.
The Graduates.
The five graduates who compose
this years class are as follows:
Chiretta Heller, Agency.
Maude e. Sherrick, Libertyville.
Goldie Kleinman, Fairfield.
Kathryn Cowger, South Ottumwa.
Phoebe Miller, Greentot, Mo.
Or. Williams Address.
The following is DR.. Williams ad-
dress before the graduates last even
ing:
"In barbarism woman has ever been
the abject slave of man. With civil
cation came refinement and knowledge
| evolving the condition of woman, un.
| til today she is on an equality with
man, in many respects his superior.
All avenues are opened for her and full
justice is meted out to her, save in line
of compensation, which is regulated by
supply and demand, a higher power
than sentiment and justice.
There are many avenues that the
hand of woman has never essayed. She
has never furnished Gladstone, Bis,
mark or Webster and yet the sway
of woman welded behind the throne
has been far more powerful. 1t was
the wit and wisdom of Josephine that
made Napoleon; the love of Delilah
that robbed Samson of his strength
the beauty of Cleopatra that captiyated
Antony and Caesar and saved her
kingdom from being sacked by the Ro
man legions. 1t was the intrigues OF
Madam Roland that beheaded Louis
XVI and plunged France into bloody
revolution. 1t was the Vaccinations
of Aspasia that corrupted the Athenian
court, scattered the seeds of voluptu
BUSINESS which fiourished with such ex
otto luxuriance. until every hearth
stone became tainted, and that bright
est era of mentality the world has ev
er known, soon gave way to ignorance
and vice.
| To the Nurses.
young ladies. you have equipped
| yourselves to nurse the sick. You will
be called to enter the sacred precincts
of the home. Sterilize your hearts
and your hands. You will be admitted
behind the curtain upon the stage Of
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