Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-06-28
FROM PATIENT TO PICNIC
ST. JOseph's Hospital Nurses
Take TO The Woods Instead
OF Take Temperature
SOME FORTY FAIR DAMSELS
E0iOy An AII-Day Outing In BOucher's 5
Grove 0n The Spa-fOrsake
Wards For Green Swards

the Washington, Baltimore and An
napols electric road, there came here
yesterday morning and afternoon in
relays, about forty fair mot fair and
fOrty) damsels.
The party was composed of the
young ladies who are studying to be
trained nurses at ST. Joseph's Hos
pital, corner Caroline. Hoffman and
Oliver streets, Baltimore, and who en-
JOY an annual outing here about this
time every year. They engaged Bouch-
er's-on-the Spa. that beautiful picnic
grove, for their days picnic, and here
they spent one glorious day in the
woods and under shade trees, forsak-
ing hospital wards for green swards.
An advance guard composed of
Miss Mamie Geraci and Miss Mary
Sedlacek, both Annapolis girls, who
are studying to be trained nurses at
St. Joseph's, but who are home on
two weeks vacation, arranged the
plans and acted as a committee of two
in charge of preliminaries.
The day was an ideal one for a pic
mic, and except for showers and a
thunder storm in the evening, it was
a perfect day. However, the nurses
who, for the time being had taken to
the woods, instead of taking tempera-
lures and pulse giving salts and hypo-
dermics, were not to be deferred by
thunder storm, or even good drench-
ing and they enjoyed every minute of
the outing day and evening.
nv RoIiabor ron r,ot0r
intervals throughout the day, taking
parties of the nurses and their friends
across the creek, and to say the nurses
were delighted when they had their
first view of Boucher's grove and
Spa creek, would be putting it
mildly. Exclamations of delight were
heard on all sides. One fair nurse ex-
claimed: 81 hadn't an idea Annap-
oils was so beautiful. Another
said Il always thought Annapolis
was a pile of dirt with the Capitol
set on top, and the Naval Academy on
the side.
Everybody was pleased and every
body was happy. There were boating
parties on the creek, and early and
late the nurses went in bathing, en-
joying a splash, even if they couldn't
swim. "You call this little creek, "
said one nurse from the inland
West. Gracious. where | came
from we never saw so much water,
and we'd call it the ocean" The
floundered around to their hearts
delight.
With appetites whetted to q keen
ess by the air, the exercise and the
bath, dinner was eaten with a relish
under the shade of the spreading oaks,
poplars and all pines. And such a
spread There were sandwiches of all
kinds, crab cakes, potato salad,
olives, pickles beets, hot coffee, sliced
tomatoes, Maryland biscuits, peaches,
bananas, cake of all kinds, lemonade
other good things, and it all did taste
so good out in the fresh, pure air. with
such lovely surroundings.
In the afternoon more nurses came
down from Baltimore, and there was
more boating, more bathing and
game of ball, not to mention lounging
on the grass and in hammocks. Just
at eventide supper was served, but a
few rain drops came down, and later a
storm that sent the picnicers into 1.-THE
pavilion for shelter from downpour.
Still. everybody laughed and was
good-natured and none seemed to mind
the rain.
At 1880 Professor Schreyer's or
chestra of the Naval Academy band
went across the creek, and there was
dancing in the pavilion until 10
O'Clock, when the party left to take
the last car out of Annapolis for Bal
timore. The nurses on night duty
were obliged to leave on the 500
car and thus missed the music and
dancing, which they sacrificed on the
altar of duty.
The days outing was thoroughly en-
joyed and was a great success, much
of which is due to the efforts of Miss
Mamie Geraci who was untiring in
her zeal to have all enjoy them
selves and to take away good i'm
preston of her no me town, andits
surroundings. Some of the nurses
who enjoyed the picnic are the fol-
lowing: Misses. Agnes Smith. Della
Rielley, Inez Collette, Mary Raylsnd,
Elizabeth Johnson, Anna CLANCY,
Dorothy Kalbin, Caroline Preller,
Helen Monley, Mary McAllister,
Frances Fahey, Caroline Youngholdt,
Sarah Tiddy, Daisy Fisher, Mary
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