Smyrna times., 1905-02-01
Long
Distance
Nursing
COPYRIGHT, 1901, bU a. S. Richardson
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q Miss Kent stood in the hospital door
Ia rav and repented of her folly.
AZ Six months before she had resigned
s. position as under nurse in a New
81 Sork hospital for that of superikend-
rSS hi or head nurse in a hospital in the
ss2 beart of West Virginia's mining dis
Go srict. Her predecessor had left the
SS staff well organized, and there was no
30 ebecial work to cOunteract the home
f5G 4sckness which naturally followed her
~ nrrival The biggest ward in the hos
! So nital was given over to typhoid pa
.. slents. and, in truth, they overfowed
Sn Mis- ward and took possession of three
I so 0hers. Nearly every new man at the
ls mines yielded to typhoid sooner or
81 hter 1t was part of the process of ac-
..~1 aimation. The cases were rarely seri-
. AIS the patients uniformly stolid. The
Rver ran it's course, the Grimm Coal
- md Coke company paid the hospital
l% charges and the patients as stolidly
4n mturned to the mines to have part Of
4a heir wages deducted each month and
, AZ sbplied on this hospital account.
q@ The deadly monOtony was getting on
.....~ Marion Kent's nerves. At st. Paul's
..'- " mere had been no monotony. The op-
Pm rating room had been the workshop
. W some Of the most marvellous sur
and icons in America There had been
Berlin 6ghts for lives in which house doctors
I hoH nd Fol
lrnng bred not day or night.
L. and THE surest cure for Miss Kent's pres
Y sta. Eert mental condition was work, activ-
! Re- liz and patient who was at least in
A'1 Aresting. She felt wild inclination
az STA EA go into the convalescent ward and
|; ; o. Re Hir up the men, stolidly sleeping even
AefOre the night.
ons at AT this same moment she glanced
Ie Ok bwn the road which led from the
Milway station and saw that the SUI
WeeI. s8rintendents special car, attached to
a. N. be construction train engine, was slow
ng up by the water tank. A cot was
oDsaS DeiS rried out OF the car, and four bear
lsWsrs Is brought out a limp figure swathed
lswse le M blanket. Another typhoid patient
d, with b doubt probably a little worse than
r WIN Mslinary or the special would not have
Nen called into service.
0e, She was further surprised a few mo-
tents later to find herself greeting
se" ne superintendent of the mining COM
Mny.
4 want you to give this case par
&ular care He is young Jack Stan
Mn, nephew of Mr.. Grimm, president
our company 1t is the same old
liz #bry of typhoid, and; though 1 warn
Nv M Mr. Grimm that it would come,
e responsible for the boy. Give
IN the best nurse you have and as
Wlch Of your own time as you can
are"
EYOu call him a boy?' said Miss
Ment
Yes; he is only eighteen. Between
arselves, Grimm claims the young
Pr has made him a lot of trouble.
didn't like school, and so Grimm
aht him down here to learn the coal
~ coke business from the beginning.
Wu'll find him rather a decent sort of
Wtient, and for heavens sake don't
~ anything happen to him. Grimm
emed glad enough to ship the boy
M to me; but, just the same, | don't
~ if anything goes wrong"
Fen minutes later Marion Kent was
|orn n the private ward in which young
anton had been placed. He had just
#eived a cooling sponge bath, and he
nj ked at her with eyes that shOne with
Wnething beside fever. my. but that
MI good, and it is awfully jolly, DOM
.uS' know, to see a womans face
aim
- Miss Kent turned up the lamp g
Pc and bent over her new patient
seemed to her that she had never
al ked into such marvellous brown
s-eyes that could twinkle and dance
hide the deepest and tenderest Of
Ping. She glanced from them to thu
Mlsh features. Stanton lifted his
pS pd weakly and felt of his chin.
JAW wanted 'em to give me a shave be
We they brought me down. l knew
Del 6uld give you women an awful start
sl so like tramp"
per Ire was novelty with a vengeance
Ient who cared how he looked il
presence of the nurses.
fss Kent sat down beside him. Sh
rlces somehow as if she ought to ad
rs him as willful boy.
You know this is sort of low feve
- have, and you'll get very tired o
ind of u.s.
RS. Not of you, you bet! Say, did 70
sr sleep on the hard side of a stray
-
ISIS Kent shook her head and cor
hE' #Aled her little moral lecture. II Jus
PAIN NJ you to realize that while yo
'R feel very sick you're liable to
good deal worse If you are not
- patient"
pa, I'll be good, all right. You jus
kch me-"
NO Miss Kent did watch him clos,