The Washington herald., 1910-08-21
A WOMAN OF SELF-SACRIFICE
Florence Nghngae Example Has Been Incentive Thousands
of Ohers-RankS Among Greatest HumanitarianS

and devoted woman. who to a surgeons
knowledge united a woman's tenderness
and sympathy
Nations Do Her Honor.
All nations Of the world Wed with each
other in doing Florence Nightingale hon
or when. her work finished, she returned
TO London her strength gone and health
broken for life But she would not accept
their adulation. would not consent to
pose before an admiring world. She
obeyed a command from the Queen 20
visit her, and at Balmoral these two
great women met, and who shall say
which was the greater. the Angel OF
the Crimea" or the Queen OF Great
Britain and Empress Of India? The ap-
plause Of the gallery filled with en-
perors and kings meant nothing 10 her,
but she did accept a parse Of Sl.0Oo 600
from her grateful countrymen with which
she established the Florence Nightingale
Training School for Nurses. the pioneer
among such schools which in our day are
found all over the civilized world, even
in obscure places that are in the process
Of being civilized
Our civil war followed close upon the
war Of the Crimes when. inspired by
Florence Nightingale. taught by Florence
Nightingale. hundreds Of tenderly nur-
tured American women left their homes
and went 20 the front 70 nurse their
wounded. When doubling Thomases
sought TO hold back the pioneer nurses
with croakings, the refrain Of which
was that they would be more Of a
hindrance than a help, the invariable
reply was, What Florence Nightingale
did. we can do and these devoted
women packed away Florence Nightin-
sales Notes on Nursing with their
bandages. splints. and liniments, and
made their way 10 the front
Clara Barton n Prototype.
OF all these women Clara Barton was
one Of the most devoted and the most
noted. She took up nursing in much the
same spirit that Florence Nightingale
took II up and she Tesembled her pro-
totype in that she never. even after the
war v7s finished gave up her work
for humanity. but continued IN Il in one
form or another and still continues Il.
though she has won immunity and rest
from work
We Jhlnk to-day OF Clara Barton as
the founder OF the Red Cross in America,
but before she made her splendid fight
20 have America enrolled with the other
nations OF the world IN what must ever
be regarded as the noblest institution OF
our day. she had won her spurs on the
battlefield, and the wrinkled and grizzled
faces Of veterans viii grow tender and
their eyes fill with tears when they reca"
some OF the wonderful. feats Of SKIN and
strength this ff4lSteoman accomplished,
for Il seems that nearly ali Of the women
who have accomplished great things for
humanity have been fran Of body if in
vincible in spirit
Many stories are told Of her courage.
her bravery. her indifference 10 personal
danger. but the one, that most appeals
to me is the story Of her dragging a
wounded officer. a great. strapping fellow.
who was so seriously hurt and 80 weak
from the loss of blood that he could
not help himself. from his horse and.
under the fire Of the enemy, carrying
MN 10 Il pace Oh SAFETY WHERE ole uAl ot4
him back e life. Small wonder that the
superstitious believe that the delicate
women who accomplish such acts are
endowed with the divine spirit. and it is
indeed the divine spirit that inspires and
makes possible such deeds.
Mrs. Sampson Goes to Front.
Another devoted woman and follower
in the path that Florence Nightingale
blazed was Mrs Sampson. Of Bath. Ne.
A wee Bit Of . creature. q scrap Of nerv-
Gus energy and hardly Weighing a hundred
pounds when she packed her grip. turned
her back on home and her people and fol-
lowed her husband TO the front 70 do,
what she could As a child my heart
would grow too big fer my body and beat
so that It seemed as though IL would
burst its bounds when listened 70 the
tales Of what this shrinking and modest
little woman had done She made me
think of Jenny Wren, with her sparkling
eyes, that shifted quickly like a birds
and her movements quick. too. and bird
like. So resourceful was she. this little
lady, that she would make bandages.