The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-09
Must Add to Her charms.

The trained nurse of the future, says an
eminent Baltimore physician, must be able
to sing. There Is nothing, he de-
clares, so appealing the the emotions
of a sick person as a gently hummed
melody. This opens a new field in the
training of sickroom angels. Every pro-
fession is becoming more and more exact
ing. The lawyer and the doctor constantly
find new requirements, which must be met
II they expect to hold their own against
competitors. The same is true of trained
nurses. whose profession is one of the
latest to feel the impulse of modern de-
m.and for improvement.
1t is a new version of the music hath
charms" proverb that the Baltimore physi-
clan officers. To her ~well-known qualities
OF soft-footed, kind-hearted, tender-spoken
friend in the sickroom, nurses must now
add the ability to sing the old songs-old
songs because it is presumed that a sick
person will not care to have the latest
ballads Of the street trilled in his tired
ears.-Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Louisville Wants Conyentien.
The selection Of a meeting place for the
national Democratic convention is to be
made by the national committee this week.
That in itself Is reason enough why Louis
vile people should give promptly and
literally to the fund needed as a pledge OF
Loulsville's willingness to meet the proper
expenses of the gathering. The decision
of the Court Of Appeals yesterday declar-
ing invalid the Fiscal Courts appropria-
ton OF $4,000 to the fund, however. rem
ders the situation peculiarly acute, and
makes necessary even greater promptness
and liberslity. All circumstances should
Impress upon citizens generally that they
must be up and doing. Some hot ticks
must be delivered in the next few days..
Just a little neglect and niggardliness
may lose for the city a prize worth hav-
ing, and which is almost within its grasp.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Optimism.
The optimists are at work again In this
country in their own good way. In their
judgment they are playing safe, and that
is a wise thing. But in their moral point
of view they are giving heed to their w
temperamental confidence, and in their
acts they are responding promptly to
every circumstance that evokes 1t.
No ummons to any column in the army
of American prosperity to get under way
again Is ,unheeded. 1t moves out again to
do the work expected of 1t. Banks tempo
rarily closed reopen their doors. DEPOSIT
IOTS III Idlleu INSTITUTIONS Denu their eneF-
gies to restoring assets and to taking their
management out of the hands of the law.
Construction work on western railroads is
resumed the moment the stringency les
sens. Factories that have shut down re-
open on part time. Factories that have
discharged hands take them back. Fac
tories that nave been running on part time
go back to full time. Everywhere the cor
poration and Individual are alert to meet
with the appropriate act the restoration
of an old opportunity OF the appearance OF
a new one.-Lancaster Morning News.
CuriOsities OF Literature.
The discovery has been made that the
section of the Presidents message relat-
ing to taxation of incomes and Inherit
ances is practically Identical with the adj
dress which he delivered last June to a
gathering OF editors at Jamestown. Yet
In the message the matter Is introduced
without quotation marks and with no al
fusion to the circumstance that it had
been used before. The fact is worthy of
note for the Information of people who,
like the elder D'Israeli, are interested in
the curiosities of literature. Milwaukee
Wisconsin.