The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1906-07-12
TRAINED sunsss IN TURKEY.


IL VA Dtmeslt ~ First 70 Get A.y
6trfs for the work.
DIR. Thomas Specs Darlington. the
founder OF the first training school for
nurses In Marsovan. Turkey, who IL
about to return to found another
lchool In Constantinople. tells an inter-
eating story OF the FIRST girl to take
up the work OF nursing. says the New
York Times. She was the pioneer.
and IT was through her example that
other girls came and the work. great
innovation In the far east, was made
possible.
Liisaper was the girls name. and
she was young Armenian. belonging
to wealthy family. Nurses We're need
ell la the hospital. native women would
be invaluable. and Or. Darlington
urged Lusaper TO enter the hospital
The objections offered by the girls
family were much the same as those
made by the families OF Americans
girls when they frst took up business
life.
In Lusaper's case the FIRST objection
was that the work was mental. there
fore degrading. and a girl doing any
thing OF the kind would not nnd
husband, disgrace and a calamity /
for a girl In Turkey.
Lusaper having passed much time
around the hospital reading to and as
sisting the patients in various ways
concluded 20 give herself TO the work
But even then she was not to be do
pended upon On every visit home pres
sure was brought TO bear upon her. and
she would return with her resolution
shaken. and II was only by appealing
TO her sense OF helpfulness TO her sur
fering fellow country women that she
was persuaded to keep on. Now she
has been graduated. and no better
nurses are graduated from western
training schools OF long standing.
An interesting feature OF Lusapers |
case was that after she had begun the
hospital work and was earning a good {
salary her family lost good part OF {
their money and for time she was
their chief support. as so many girls
on this side OF the water have been In !
different ways.
II Is ave years since the training
school In Marsovan was started. aud
the results have shown the wisdom :
81 the step. Only girls who have been J.
sducated and speak English are admit
led 10 the training school These are
and Trustworthy and dis
,rove the general opinion that the east Il
I'm woman Is helpless and frivolous. Il
since the school opened more gi-ls i
ave applied for admlftance than 1
oufd be accommodated and the work II
Ias only been limited By the money II
nd accommodations. Girls have been III
ent from other hospitals are II
our under American supervision in II
'urkey-and from the girls schools
there a trained nurse In attendance
J invaluable.
Women In Turkey are greatly in
eed OF medical attention and nursing.
he youthfulness OF the child wives.
Re large families, lack OF proper care
! illness. hack Of cleanliness. and /
roper sanitary conditions make them
'ArA lcAAAbAt 7tueItts. lueIr etClu
on and refusal to be attended by men
nysicians has made their cases prac- co
caily hopeless. te'
Native-trained nurses mean a revo- an
ton In the lives OF the women. The po
lrses give not only care In illness, go
It disseminate knowledge concerning
nitary conditions. which Is greatly
ded In a land where annually 80 per soi
Mt Of the children died from improper Il
et and conditions. bu
DIR. Carrington's visit to this coun- ku
' was to raise money for the Con- sio
lntinople Training School. From vii
At city a good school would be able tw'
send nurses to the whole country. 70
Ie work also provides employment X
: eastern girls which. now that II 10 wo
derstood, they are glad to under -
re- The educated girls have. many r
them, become teachers heretofore
whatever little village they settle II
er leaving school, they gather the
ldren together and form small cen
; Of civilization. and do much good
ich, as trained nurses, they will be
Q to increase.