The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-02
Opening Opportunities for Women

The first announcement of the depart
ment of nursing and health, recently en-
dowed by Mrs. Helen Hartley Jenkins,
Teachers College of New York, shows
that opportunities are provided for the
training of women for a wide range of
occupations.
In addition to continuing the prepara-
ton of teachers and supervisors for
training schools and hospitals, conducted
for the past ten years by the college in
cooperation with the American Society
of superintendent of Training Schools
for Nurses, the department now offers
preparation for visiting nurses and
teachers Of home hygiene in city and
rural districts; for nurses, inspectors,
and teachers under boards of health; for
assistants to medical inspectors in public
schools, and teachers and advisers of
mothers in the care of school children;
for supervisors of milk stations and
teachers of infant care and feeding: and
welfare workers in shops and factories;
for inspectors of tenements and markets.
and for other related forms of social
service. A one-year curriculum, leading
to a certificate i'll district nursing and
health protection, is offered to graduates
of approved training schools for nurses
or to students who have had two wears
of college work. The department also
announces a one-year scientific curric,l-
lum in preparing students for admis-
Bellevue and other hospitals. In pro-
viding this preparation the college will
have the special cooperation of other
parts of the university, of the School of
Philanthropy, of Bellevue and st. Luke's
hospitals, and of the Henry Street
Nurses Settlement, and the aid of many
similar interests.
Books That Children Read.
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that boys read more books and better
books than girls, according to public Ii
brary records, is not true in Boston. ac-
cording to an attache of the library who
is stationed in the juvenile room.
1.-THE girls read just as many books
as the boys, and the books are of exactly
as high Standard was her statement.
certain type eff a book. while a bow
would prefer something else, but the
statement that the boys read better
books is not true, as far as we are
concerned"
AS far as books of travel, history and
fiction are concerned there is little TO
choose between the two sexes, and both
the boys and girls seem to like much the
same books. A rather surprising fact is
that the girls read the books that refer
to life in boys boarding school, with
great amount of space devoted to
athletics, with apparently the same in
terest as the boys, while books that
would seem to be written particularly
for the girls seem to find equal favor
with the boys.
Many of the boys are deeply inter-
ested in wireless telegraphy, and any
books that are devoted TO this subject
and flying machines are great fayorites.
In spite of the flood of modern fiction
that is written for boys and girls, the
children of Boston still find time to read
and enjoy such writer's as Stevenson,
Dickens, Louise Alcott and Lang's Fairy
Tales. Cooper is still a favorite and
the Kipling jungle books seem to be as
popular now as they were a generation
ago.
Treasure Island" and ''Kidnaped" are
the the. two big favorites of Stevenson, and
"Pickwick Papers," "The Christmas
Carol' and David Copperfeld'' seem to
have as many admirers among the boys
and girls that are growing up today as
they did with their fathers and mothers.
:, Of the modern books, "Rebecca of
Sunnybrook Farm" has an enormous
popularity with the boys and girls, and
that there is no danger of the present