Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

cial cases. Despite the hardness OF the
work, however, the nurses are all enthu-
siastic and ever ready to answer q call
which comes in after hours.
The Instructive Visiting Nurse Society
began its work in February, 1900. and
was incorporated in April OF that year
by Miss Emily Tuckerman. Mrs. NJ w.
{. Bayard and DR.. Anne A. wilson who
has died since that time. Inside OF three
months there were three nurses instead
of one at work. 1t was at that time that
the offices of the society were moved from
smal' room on G street to its present
attractive quarters on I street
The stan of nurses was then increased
to six and superintendent. At the re-
quest OF the health Office and wit. the
approval OF the Commissioners of the
District nurse was detailed under the
direction of the school board nearly two
years ago. This was for the purpose OF
demonstrating to the authorities, and
especially to CONGRESS-, the necessity for n
corps OF school nurses in Washington.
About year ago the superintendent re.
pany, In which 1t was proposed that the
Instructive Visiting Nurse Society should
work among its policyholders. the pay to
De according to the work done. II sue.
cessful 1t was honed IL would become q
part of the District nursing. This is be.
Ing done in New York city successfully
Monte Carlo. or millionaire Newport,
r. I.
In order to be suitably dressed for
CLIMBING Rosengarten. and wandering
through the forests on Latemar. most OF
the Karersee tourists brought more robes
and hats and jeweled adornments than
would fit in the trousseau OF a Wander
bilt bride.
A pretty lady from Hamburg claims
for seventeen dresses. valued at $500,
for fourteen hats valued at s400 for five
evening nantes and cloaks and for
eighteen pairs OF Iacaered shoes. Her
six heavy trunks, dragged painfully 5000
feet above sea level persisted In the
flames. A keen English mountain climb
er brought with her twenty dresses and a
dozen pairs of shoes. A Frenchwoman's
claim includes four boas OF different furs.
Her sister arrived with forty-two pairs
OF stockings. A girl OF nineteen says
she brought only twenty-four pairs OF
stockings, but she made up for the mod
Grafton with three umbrellas and seven
parasols. Her governess claims for nine
hats and thirteen dresses. And scores
OF other visitors claim for trunks full Of
silks. lace. ostrich feathers gems. gold.
ivory. fans and staylaces enough TO
stretch from Innsbruck to st. Stephens
Church at Vienna.
But, alas. not one tourist claims only
a knapsack. a toothbrush and a shirt.
Even Austr,anS themselves betrayed the
Arcadia legend. A Salzburg professors
wife lost 112 collars, forty eight handker-
CHI iefs and nine pairs Of shoes. She also
lost three watches. And the men were
no better. One lost three dress suits;
another forty-seven shirts. A third had
started mountaineering with eight walk
ing sticks and five jeweled breastpins.
And the son Of Hungar an wheat ex.
porter arrived with a necktie for every
day OF two months. With these neckties
the simple Tyrol legend is dead ana
henceforth Austria must blush with
shame beside Trouville and Monte Carlo.
and millionaire Newport.
Austrfans. however, part with delu.
sions slowly and are given to hunting for
soph stical consultations. Maybe saw
some, the sixty-t ed man is an artist.
who aspires to harmony between nature
Ind art. That would explain everything.
He would wear a green tie on pine-clad
Latemar, q pink one on the sun-aushed
and sapphire.blue one
when rowing on Karer's translucent lake.
But these fraudulent arguments impose
,nly on the few. "The legend OF TyroIs
Arcadian simplicity" 81 the many with
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