Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-11-27
Florence Nightingale and
the Y. w. G.. A. Movement
BY ELIZABETH WILSON
In the Association Monthly

registered as shop assistants (sales-
Women). Agriculture, factory ana
domestic service meant .ong hours,
no social standing and scanty wages.
There was simply one way fcf "a we'll
bred girl to earn her oAn livlag and
not lose caste. THAT was q, become q
%governess. There were no ,%,rotes-
sional or h~igh-grada business posi-
tons as yet. Nursns. wa NOT yet
a profession that awaited Miss
Mathematics development,
But Miss Nightingaie's views
on the subject OF what is wulnan's
work are important;
Il would earnestly ask my sisters
to keep clear Of both tao larS''ns n''w
current everywhere tfor they nre
equally jargons), OF tl,c itreun,
namely, about the rights OF women.
which urges women to do al That
men do, including she medical and
other professions, merely BECAUSE men
do It, and without res lrl 10 hetAer
this Is the best that wome1 can doi
and of the jargon which urges ONE
10 do nothing that me do. merely
l%ecaure they are wonaea. and allnuit
De recalled to q sense Of heir ATTY
as women, and because ms ~
womon's work, n that is mems
a,ai these are things which women
should not do, Which Is al isscrti"nl
and Iothing more. surely woman
should bring the hasg he has, what
ever hat is. Ia the work of Gods
worl0. without ATTENDING so either OF
their cries. For what are they. both
OF them, the one just as much as the
other, but listening to the what people
win say to opinion, TO the voices
from without And as a wise man
I.t n,FI "a. ana ht.a nan. damn ANY,
thing great or useful by listening to
the voices from without.
You do not want the effect Of
rour good things to be, How Won
derful for q womanl nor would you
be deferred frob good things by henri
ing IL said. Yes. n she ought not
to have done this, because 1t is not
suitable for a woman. But you want
to do the thing that is good, whether
IL is suitable for a woman or not.
1T does not make a thing good,
that IL Is remarkable that "A woman
should have been able e. do il.
Neither does 1t make "A thing bad,
which would have been good had a
man lone It, that II has been done
by a IN
"Oh. leave these targons, and go
your way straight to Gods work la
simplicity and si%ngleness of heart"
II our National Training
School for secretaries in New York,
the curse On Personal, Home and
Community Living is truly an on
deavor TO carry TO the girls of the
present generation Miss Nightingale'a
wn thOughte
"On women We must depend first
and last. for personal and household
hygiene-for preventing the race
from degcncrating Ia rs far as these
things are concerned. Would not
the true way of infusing the art of
preserving It's " health into the
human race he 10 teach the female
part Of il in schools and hospitals.
both by practical teaching and by
experiments. In as far as these
Illustrate what may be called the
OF IL"
Elizabeth Fry inspired Florence
Florence Nightingale in
'pired the last half Of the Nineteenth
century. and this decade Of the Twen-
.ieth century. How shall our genera
ION inspire the hundreds Of thou
ands n touches every year through
Young Women's Christian AsSo-