Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-27

1t would be interesting to know
to how many organizations of women
the work OF Florence Nightingale
was fundamental. There are two
lines of connection viii the Young
Momen's Christian association, the
| first personal and direct; the second
indirect, but amending, one Is mat
the first Young Women's Christian
association boarding home, that at
81 upper Charlotte street, Fot2roN
Square, London, was originally estab-
lished for nurses returning from the
East. This home had been opened
by a group of ladies including Lady
Strangford M the Hon. Mrs. y.
Kinnaird. on january %. 1855, the
Hon. a. Kinnaird sent out a circular
ayine hat the North London Home,
late Nurses Home or General lfe-
male Home md Training institution
would afford q temporary home Tor
MANY young persons coming up 70
London, either as drcssmakers or 10
follow any other trade. Bible classes
| will be held on Sunday afternoons for
the residents in the Home and Tor
young persons in other establishments
and O lending library formed Tor
dressmakers, nurses, etc.
In June cor the same year appar-
entlN) with the hope of securing sub
~stantial contributions to the work
the Following circular was sent out;
l Pan Mall East.
Dear Sir; June.
win you allow me to ask on behalf
Of the North London Home for a
continuance Of the support YOU kindly
gave to the late Nurses association?
when that association terminated
it's labours | undertook the RESPONSE
bilities and the liabilities of the Home
which have amounted to O I25'
The settled income of the Homo Is as
vet small, hut should II be now sup
ported, | hoped that when it Is tull
it viii be to a great extent self-sup-
porting. The number OF inmates enc
loving its advantages is gradually IN
creasing.
Contributions to aid in forming a
large lending library are needed as
wen as for the Home Itself. And |
have obtained Q promise from the
Religious Tract Society Of grants OF
hooks for so important an object to
any extent AT half-price.
Yours faithfully,
A. K1NNAIRD.
The second superintendent ct the
Home was q Miss Bramwell. her
sell "a nurse In lnt lltIlfis anu Nli'
who felt the priceless value Of I'M
mortal souls o > @ when engaged
in the East with our moor sick and
wounded soldiers" she was en-
abled, with Gods blessing, to form
the Young Women's Christian Inn
provemcnt association, az Is was at
first designated, and thus to carry
cur more fully the object from the
first designed. which wos to do for
young women what the Young Mems
Christian Association did for young
We are told hat Miss Nightingale
was one of the early signers Of the
Union list Of Miss Robarts,
by which she undertook to pray every
for young women of the nine
classes:
l.. Our Princesses. and all who arc
in the glitter of fashionable life.
.. Daughters ut home of the mid
1le classes.
3. Young wives and mothers.
4. G-overnnesses in families ana
.eachers in day and Sunday schools.
8. Shop-women. dressmnkers. mil
liners and seamstresses
5. Domestic servants.
:. Factory girls.
q. Young women In our unions.
hospitals and reformatorics, the Grim
mai ana fallen.
2. Those who are e%uchained hy
Judaism, pOpery and Heathenism.
There is q legend that the rooms
Il IFS Pail Mall, taken In 1862 10y
ne young Women's Christian and
Domestic improvement association,
IS il WINS then styled. had ben used
ls a collecting place for supplies 10
30 sent 10 tho army In h Crimea.
This. however. Is hard TO verify and
nay have been q rumor based on the
connections OF the home in Charlotte
But Miss Nightingalc's truest claim
70 honor bv the members Of the Young
Vomen's Christian association. D. the
act thai she demons trated That q
sell-bred woman can go into the bat
ie OF life with gein rather than loss
u self-respcct. Especially did she
this with regard To the matter
Il nursing. which she 0ignificd as "a
rofessiou.
The British census Of 1851 fAilss
,iehtenEals ven out ON October q. ?
s5fl returns as nurses hy profession
$500 women as well as $3.50 {
.urses ia domestic service and S22 Z
nidwiVes-Cf.eo0 Ia ala. of there g
SIZE or nearly one-half the nurses
b domestic service were between ) q
nj 20 years Of are. child nurscs q
indeed. since SOS were between 2 and v
o years 81 age. By this znfne ccn- )
" only LAP young women we're |