The National tribune., 1909-05-27

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guages, and became thoroly con
| versant with several, and as her mint
matured md her philanthropic in
stincts developed, she became deer
student of political economy The poor
neighbors of her English home frs
| engrossed her attention and awaken
ed that tender pity for suffering an6
earnest desire to comfort and help
which soon led her into larger fields
At the time of the Crimean war the
shocking mismanagement of the mill
tary hospitals in the Crimea led to ar
outburst of public Indignation, and il
was finally decided to send a band OF
women out to correct this, Miss Night
ingale Offering her services in the or
ganlZation and conduct of this body
What she effected with her little band
of followers, at the scene of that bloody
conflict, can never be too highly ex-
tolled. Her executive talent, coupled
with her tender heart and wise, sensi-
BILE, comprehension of the situation,
brought order out of chaos and un-
utterabie relief 20 the sufferings of the
poor soldiers. The lives>of many thou
sands were saved to England thru her
skilful nursing and good management,
and her country showed its apprecia-
ton by putting the sum of $250,000 to
her credit, but which was, at her ss,e-
cial request, devoted to the formation
of an institution for the training of
nurses now carried out in the hospital
of the Nightingale Home" Miss
Nightingale has written several valua-
BILE books on nursing, Notes on Hos
pitals," published in 1859; Notes on
Nursing" published in 1860; and "Ob-
servations on the Sanitary State of the
| Army in India" in 1863. During the
civil war she was frequently appealed
to by us for advice, as she was by
Germany during the Franco-Gernan
war.
The charms of the English barmaid.
plump of arm and rosy of cheek. have
formed the theme of many poet from
time immemorial, and, with those of the
pretty milkmaid have held an undis-
puted place in romance. We are now
about to learn from actual experience
how much truth there is in this pretty
picture. for Mr.. Hammerstein, of New
York, has imported six of these charm
| ers from the various London halls to
serve in the capacity of barmaids in his
Summer Roof Garden. He is having a
part of this place of his, where the hot
and thirsty of the warm weather con-
| tingent gather o. nights, when the great
city gasps for breath, fixed up to re-
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music halls. and behind this bar the six
aforesaid English damsels will stand
ready to serve the foaming beer, etc. If
| the girls are really attractive, of course
! Mr. Hammersteins Roof Garden will
! be tremendously popular; but so it
would have been had he selected six
pretty American girls for this purpose.
! 1t is no disgrace not to konw certain
things. because there is a great deai to
learn in this world, and few people have
much time for personal investigation
and study outside certain lines which
particularly engross them But 1t is a
disgrace to exclaim Il don't believe
it," to something strange or incompre-
hensible by reason of being beyond the
! degree of ones learning and experience.
| 1t is an easy way to close a discussion
which one does not feel up to on ac-
count of ignorance, and not only shows
a lack of intelligence. but small and
narrow mind. There are authorities on
| all subjects and most of us can do no
better than to accept these without
question. Just because the common
housefiy was for many, many years con-
sidered absolutely harmless is no rea-
son that it is SO, and if science has
lately discovered that these pests are
dangerous disase-carriers, why not
heed the words of warning of these
learned gentlemen, and do what we can
to keep this menace to health outside
our homes? It may be argued that life
is getting to be dreadful bore looking
out for microbes in everything, and
that the fevers, etc, which are prevent
ed by the progress of science are more
than made up for by the increase of
nervous diseases. But that does not al
ter the fact that our scientists do know
! more about these things than we do,
and that an uncomfortable subject can
not be dismissed by a Il don't believe
| it."
Someone has been trying to prove
lately that several women living to-
gether to lessen expense. as so many
women do in the large cities, Will have
larger grocery and marketing bills than
the same number of men living under
similar circumstances. A writer in
Health Culture says that in comparing
these bills, in every case the mems
menu for the week cost less than thar
of the women. While both had evil
IDENTIFY cut out everything not regarded
as absolutely necessary, yet the women
had shown thmselves capable of less
self-denial than the men. This seems
strange, as to cut down on food has
usually been considered the one way
in which woman will or can econo-
miZe. She will live on tea and bread
or piece of pie and cup of coffee, meal
after meal. in order to spend her money
in some other way. People who dress
well and stand well socially will. fire.
quently, have hardly enough to eat to
sustain life. in their homes. This is
the only way the wife and mother
knows how to keep down expenses
Men, on the contrary, when they have
voice in the matter, are supposed to
demand plenty of good food, no mat
ter what else may, as they say, come
out at the little end of the horn" A
man is supposed to make little god
of his stomach, and a woman, general
ly. to care very little about what she
eats. But this is an age of change, and
perhaps the men and women are
changing places in this particular re-
spect.
Tho fsAty,