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bed, on milk diet, and isolated from
other children. The mother objected to
bath being given or having the doctor
called, SO I left. Will call tomorrow.
* X
-Four blocks farther on. a man with
rheumatism. Patient and room neat and
clean; advice and sick diet all that was
needed. Notified health department Of
death of tuberculosis case, requesting flu
migation of room. Went back to Office
to get few things ready for loan closet
for different cases to be sent for. Wrote
postals asking for return Of loaned ar
ticles. and filled out some diet slips for
chronic cases to be seen next day. Seven
blocks more brought me home with the
days work ended at 6:15."
The home of the nurses is at 2OO1 street
northwest. Here an oid-fashioned home
has been made as pleasant as possible
for the nurses. who come in the evening
tired after a hard days work. The parlor
is bright and sunny and pretty with at
tractive hangings. A piano and bookcase
full Of interesting books serve to make
them forget the hardships of the patients
whom they have tried to help. and their
own weariness. This home also serves as
the main Office of the society and as the
Office Of five Of the nurses covering spe-
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Visiting Nurses Of the City Their Daily Rounds Of the Sick Poor

by the school nurse was over 5000 while
the number of home visits made in con-
sequence amounted to more than 100.
The number Of schools visited was
eighty-three. Nearly 300 were found to
need their eyes treated, while there were
over 200 tonsil and nearly 100 adenoid
cases needing treatment.
The rules that govern the nurses are
as strict as those in any hospital. and
on entering the service each nurse has
to pledge herself to remain at least six
months. One of the principal rules is
regarding the personal appearance of the
nurses; they must ''be examples of neat
ness. order, cleanliness ard sobriety a ID
wear the prescribed uniform" Not only
that is expected of them, but they are
also held responsible for the cleanliness
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to the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society
by the health department was more than
1000. OF that number thirty-nine were
dead before the nurses first visit, and
twenty-nine could not be located. OF the
remainding $50, over 500 were still under
observation at the time the annual re-
port was issued, seventeen had been dis
charged at the end of one year in good
health, while but 10 had died, or less
than IL per cent of the entire number
Besides this, there were nearly 100 cases
which were either lost track OF re-
moved from the District. Over $500
was spent during the year for the pre-
vention of infant mortality in the city
For the last three years the Red Cross
day camp for tubercular patients has
been in charge of one of the nurses
from the Instructive Visiting Nurse
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SHATTERED LEGEND OF
TYROLEAN SIMPLICITY
Special Correspondence Of The Star.


VIENNA, December &c, 1910.
a USTRIANS are staggering under a
~ painful shock. caused by the un-
( = suspected depravity Of tourist
mankind.
Until three weeks ago they cherished
the dear delusion that their scenery had
escaped dissertation by rich and vulgar
tourists. Especially, said the native guide
books. Tyrol is unspoiled. No male
loungers in evening dress. no insipid
bellies in Merry Widow hats profane our
austere hills. Our tourists are simple,
hardy Missionaries. who come to COM
mune with awful nature.
1.-The women," wrote Herr Falck in his
book, wear blouses and serge skirts, and
the rough-shcd men bring their baggage
in knapsacks A shirt, a toothbrush, a
thumbed volume OF Grillparzer are all
they need. Yes, our Tyrol is unspoiled
and cheap. and alone in corrupt, uxu-
rious Europe it recalls the golden age"
And now murder is out, and the native
guide books are being thrown into the
fire. The tragedy happened thus:
In the skyscraping Dolomites. near an
azure lake which images piercing Mount
Latemar and myth-girt Rosengarten.
rose until Lately the mighty Karersee
Hotel. It sheltered 500 tourists Of pros
porous mein, who usually seemed quite
as keen on their dinners as on awful ma
ture. Sometimes the modest herdsmen
around caught sight OF decoilete Shout
ders, and s0rched shirts. and the gigan-
tic hat boxes hardly seemed to indicate
excessive simplicity. But people who
nurture illusions know when to shut their
eyes and Vienna's newspapers chorused:
THANK heaven for glorious Tyrol. the
cheap, the 4>rcadian, the free!''
On a sunny morning last August fire
seized the Ilarersee Hotel and wiped 1t
out. The guests escaped. Their robes.
Merry Widow hats, Jewels, corsets. pow
der puffs and reserve peroxide-dyed
fringes were frizzled to dust. And when
they claimed compensation. the court.
regardless Of Austria's feelings. demand
ed lists Of their losses.
The lists are now being published and
a cry OF anguish is rising from disillu-
stoned Austria. For In luxury, show
and vanity. it appears that simple Tyrol
is no better off than Paris. or sinful
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Society, and although the funds Of the
society are unusually low at the pres
ent time, every possible effort will be
made to continue their share in the
work when the camp is reopened. Last
year there were eighty-one patients
sent to the camp by the society. and
fifty-six were admitted. or that num-
Der five were cured and thirteen i'm
proved. while six died and three were
sent to the hospital.
The work of the school nurse is done
In connection with the school inspector
This work is not confined solely to the
attending of contagious diseases. such
as scarlet fever, smallpox. or even cases
OF pneumonia. These cases, when found.
are, of course, attended to. but the
school nurses main work lies in discov-
ering cases of defective eyesight. ade-
noids and bad teeth.
Last year the number q <iSits made
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ingness is oftentimes hard. I had a case
only the other day which exemplities that.
1t was the case of a negro woman with
a little baby less than month old. One
of the child's eyes was badly inflamed
and needed immediate treatment in order
to prevent blindness. When [ told the
mother what to do she stoutly refused.
No matter how hard I tried to persuade
her of the necessity of treatment. and of
the fact that the childs sight could be
saved. she refused to bulge. 1t is such
cases which make the work Of the nurses
hard and diSheartening.
The nurse, too, often has to act as an
official go-betWeen.
Whenever it is possible of course, we
try to make the patient as comfortable
in every way as we can. That means that
we sometimes have to go to see friends
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INSTRUCTIVE Visiting
! Nurse Society Was Organ
ICED in Ieoo-Good Work
Among Sick Poor-Result of
Efforts of Washington Wom-
en-Nurses Tell of Their Ex-
periences - Perform Same
Services They Would if At
tending Wealthy Patients
City Divided Into Eight Dis
tricts, and Each Nurse Has
District-Miss Emily Tuck
erman Acting President of
Society-Many Charity Or
CARNATIONS Interested in
Work.
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and relatives in an effort to have the
patient get the proper care and attention.
Sometimes we find them willing to put
aside their own work and care for the
sick patient, " nile at others we find
them SO placed financially as to make
that impossible. AT other times we find
them unwilling to give any assistance,
even though they may be able to. In
the case of giving out articles from the
loan closets we first have to ascertain
whether or not some friend or relative
is not able to furnish them.'
So much for the trials and tribulations
of the general nurses. Those who are
attending tubercular cases also have
their troubles.
VI
LAS a general rule we find the patients
not only willing but anxious to carry out
our directions. When / visit tubercu-
lar patient" said one, and ask any of
his or her family concerning the care
they give him and the precautions they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-08

LITTLE less than
eleven years ago a
group of women in
Washington banded
themselves together
for the purpose OF
aiding the sick poor
OF the National
c Pit al. They
started with one
nurse, and with but
a I e W members.
Today the organ
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ization Is one of the most helpful in the
District of Columbia, having fifteen nurses
working in all parts of the city. and num-
herring among its members a goodly pro-
portion of the social set of the city, be-
sides a large following who are interest
ed in the work and give their aid. This
organization Is called the Instructive
Visiting Nurse Society.
The business Of the society is placed
in the hands Of a board of managers hav-
ing entire charge. The officers of this
board are Miss Emily Tuckerman, vice
president. and now acting president. Mrs.
William Corcoran Eustis had been the
president until her resignation a short
and Mrs. Harriet S. Blaine Beale, treas
urer. The other members are: Mrs
NJ. W. c. Bayard. Mrs. Augustus p. Gard
ner. Mrs. Arnold Hague. Mrs. Henry
Cabot Lodge. Miss Alice Lowering. Mrs.
Thorn, Mrs. Charles d. Walcott. Mrs.
Hugh Wallace and Miss Maude Wetmore
sA
The society works in connection with
the Associated Charities and other philan-
thropic societies in the city. but the nurses
act primarily under the direction OF the
visiting physicians to the poor, a body Of
prominent physicians who attend the sick
poor under the direction OF the health
department of the District. Every nurse
on the stan IL a graduate nurse. who is
thoroughly equipped for the work she has
to do. Miss Isabel L. Strong. a graduate
OF the Massachusetts General Hospital of
hoston and the Queen Charlotte Hospital
OF London. Is the superintendent of the
STAFF
Three Of the nurses. while forming a
part or the society to the same extent
~
outside funds. One Of these is called
the All Souls " nurse, and is supported
by All Souls Unitarian Church. The
otner Two are what might be called
memorial nurses, as the funds with
which they are supported were named
in memorfam. The Minna Byrd Lath-
rop nurse Is supported by Mrs. Thomas
Nelson Page Ana the Mrs. Blair Lee
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A GROUP OF VISITING NURSES.

A GROUP OF VISITING NURSES.
of their patients, as well as for the con-
dition of the sickroom. 1t is also their
duty, in SO far as is possible. % instruct
the family and friends OF patients re-
garding the care of the patient and sick
room.
Records are kept of each case for the
physicians use and weekly and monthly
reports are. made to Miss Strong, the
superintendent. Each morning the nurses
report to the police station in their dis
trict to receive orders from the physi-
clans. They take cases from other physi-
clans in addition. however.
The work of the nurses is neither light
nor simple. and each has to bring her pa
thence to bear in almost every case she
visits.
While it is not as large a factor as 1t
was at one time" said one Of the nurses,
1.-The necessity of trying to educate the
patients up to the required state of will
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!1 @& rq,p&f$BR2@S,4 ~ n
The Road
BY Herb
The bottom of the also leads the top You
take the dwn grade hurry but you'll have to work be-
fore you can get back to the eveL
1t mans destiny climb You can't slide through the
uvorLd and collect the wage Of success.
The prosperity and the rough
craggy bruisng path of the It's harder the Begin
ming, muscles the journey
longer, and there's aways reward at the goal
Efficiency isn't buthright, but education. Even
doesn't flash with fire until has been polished
Its uaue be ground of it. and must merit be
1ubbed out of you
There isn't any magic formula that makes win- One
uilng courageous human pentfuy mixed with energy
and briskly stirred with ambifion-thats the recipe
Your chance begins you believe you haze chance
There's for you.
The bitter struggle only among the cowards and the weak
Eng They purchase the right to ue at heauer cost than
boder soul pays to hue right.
You will far from shore you back the
first blister Training always involves painng Learning
the Of only takes honest labor
Grou0th is habit You have got keep you will
stay small
open. Anybody join
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nurse by Mrs. Randolph McKim The
nurses are assigned either to special
work or to certain districts OF the
fifteen, eight are doing regular work
in the eight districts in which the city
is divided. Of the remaining seven,
three are tuberculosis nurses. three in
FAINT mortality nurses and one the
school nurse.
The nurses attend the sick poor of
the city, and perform the same services
they would If attending a wealthy
patient. Each district has an office as
centrally located as possible, where the
nurse can be found twice a day, at 9
o'clock in the morning and 1 o'clock in
the afternoon. At these hours they re-
ceive visits from patients able to be
out but still needing medical aid, re-
quests for them to visit sick people and
calls from the physician in whose dis
trict they are working. The hours they
are on duty are from $3.50 o'clock in the
morning until 5 o'clock in the after
noon, and when not at the Office they
are out making their daily visits. Each
nurse has perhaps thirty or forty cases
on her list, which have to be visited
regularly.
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In the case of the special nurses it is
different. They attend to only such cases
as come directly under them. The princi-
pal duties of the tuberculosis nurses con-
sst In seeing that the patients follow as
nearly as possible their orders regarding
sufficient air. cleanliness, etc. The three
infant mortality nu- SeS work in co-Op-
Grafton with the health department OF
the District. Each morning the health
department sends out slips on which is
recorded the name Of the mother and
her address. together with such informa-
ton as will aid the nurse Then the
visiting nurse sees the case and con-
tinues to have II unde.. her charge for
a year. She instructs the mother in the
care of the baby and sees that the lit
tie one has sufficient clothing in cases
of extreme poverty.
Each nurse has loan closet" These
closets are filled with all the things that
a patient might need, and these are
loaned with the understanding that the
articles be returned in good condition
The same Is done In the case or the
babies, and so many OF the poor little
children of the District have had pretty
little gowns and warm blankets, when
without the help of the loan closet"
they might have been cold. or all the
closets four are supported by persons
Interested in the work including the
'.All Souls !" closet. which Is kept filled
by All Souls Church. The remaining
closets are kept filled by the members
of the board. The First NeedlewOrk
Guild, the Friday Morning Sewing Club
and the Christ Child Society and other
clubs aid in filing these closets with
dainty, serviceable things.
-
Last year almost 1000 new patients
were attended by the nurses. while the
number of visits made during the entire
wear amounted to over $4,000. In cases
where the patients feel able the nurses
are allowed to accept such fees as they
can give, and last year over 500 was OBJ
tanned from this source. In the large
majority of cases the nurses find other
duties than simply attending the patients.
Last year over 500 were referred to the
diet kitchen, while more than GOO patients
were sent to the dispensaries for treat
ment, and half that number referred to
the health department. The nurses also
refer such cases as they think proper to
the Associated Charities, the board Of
chi.dren's guardians and to the church,
es. while a considerable number have to
be sent to the hospitals. During the term
Of Henry b. F. mcfarland as Commits
sioner of the District an anonymous
friend" supplied ice through the summer
months, and consequ antly the nurses We're
able to issue ice tickets In such cases as
they thought worthy.
~ ,fh n ~ I'D
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By Herbert Kaufman
Aeus,yrasAt. 1910. b aefssss xsue.sA

Kaufman nn.,
There may be CROWDS here and there spo there.
need Da for while thousands square miles stretch
from and from the gulf the lakes wang for the
first man to put in appearance and start something
Aren't sick and tired your cooess existence? Haven't
you ever aspired for respect and appreciation?
It's You're heir everything beneath the
heauens
This world legacy Your portion of the unioerse
only bounded by ability and ZEAL You stand ready
and equipped seize your btgh Your title clear any
thing which you honestly reach
Come the hill and look around-select destination-
and keep trying until you reach it The distance between
failure and isn't nearly great beiow
The slope cut. off your uiew.
What your pockets empty? Resolution is a mint
What yesterday funk? Tomorrow neup
sphere lighted with fresh and filled with Virgin hopes
With sound constitution and BRAIN you're CAPT.
tast rich the Carnegie when his feet first touched
these shores
Lnuest yourself
mighter America than he knew lies before you-bouti
with new-born cities-tertle with farm lands
The smoke of factories rising above the peaks mountains
where wilderness fifty of living green
gstenng with the deus where but burning
sands and sage Brush
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL,
HEAVY SELLING.
Extensive Liquidation Causes Prices to
CrumbIe Away.

New York. Aug. 25.-Prices of stocks
crumbled away again today and the
many low records registered for the
movement practically comprehended
the entire active list not to mention
many issues Of lesser Importance. The
selling was very heavy in the first
hour and as has been the case recent
ly convefged around United States
Steel, which broke below 20 after the
short interest. which was unusually
aggressive and active, made Steel the
special object of it's attentions, sales
of the stock in the early session COM
prising almost 80 per cent of the
whole. Rumor attributed some of the
days liquidation to the pressing ne
cessities of large speculative interests
1t is matter of general belief that
large blocks of securities of the better
class have been taken over recently
by bankers in private settlements of
DULL accounts.
In the financial district today con-
lecture and discussion ran the gamut
of many things including the critical
railroad labor situation the droopinc
tendency of the European markets
particularly London, poor or indiffer-
ent railroad earnings which gave espe-
cial point to the retrenchment pro-
gramme of the transportation comma
MES and the state of trade in the
steel and iron industry Advices from
tended to confirm the discouraging
statements issued by trade journa S
yesterday
The market was at its weakest Il
the last hour when another drive
sainst the Hartman and Hill issues
Reading. United States Steel and the
metal stocks sent this list lower Sell
ing increased as prices declined. but
the recession was at no time disor-
ganized. its sources. except for a re-
newal of bearish oDerations were nc
less mysterious and urgent than be-
fore. and interest shifted from the
selling for which there was no eluci-
dation to the buying the ORIGIN 81
which was no less haf1ing In tbs
final dealings the Harrimans recovered
part of their declines. but the
movement elsewhere--was uncertain,
The closing was dull and heavy with
vast preponderance of net losses, in
Guiding 6 per cent. decline in ST
Paul preferred. London sold from o.
600 to 25.no0 shares in this market
chiefly Union Pacific, Steel and Anal
gamated Copper.
The most interesting railroad reporl
submitted was that of Atchison. which
showed a loss of 1852 600 in net TO,
JULY number of gross returns from
southwestern roads for the third weel
of July showed declines
| Bonds were irregular. with tota
sales, par value, amounting to $17o4,
| 000t
| United States government bond
unchanged on call.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26

Danny Murphy as the logical candi-
date for captain of the Philadelphia
Americans. winners of the world S
championship in 1910 and touted as the
best bet to take the American league
bunting in 1871 is the inside dope pub
lishcd in tho current issue of a Phlla-
delphia sporting paper. which presents
the statement that Capt. Harry DAVIS
has definitely admitted that he is to
leave the Athletics and manage the
Cleveland team next season.
In the event of Davis taking up the
reins at Cleveland, which, it is stated,
he has admitted he is to do, the pre-
diction is made that the Norwich boy
will succeed to the captains berth on
the Athletics and it will be in that
position that he will round out his
stellar career with the team.
With the exception of Captain Davis
and of Pitcher Eddie Plank, who join
ed the team in 1901, Murphy is the
veteran of the team, having Joined the
Connie Mack band in July, 1902. From
the very first of his connection with
the team. when he surprised the base
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-26
FARMER BURNS WILL
MAKE GoTcH TRAIN RIGHT
The Man Who Discovered the Iowa
GrappIer VIII Have Full Charge of
Camp.

Several interesting phases are pre-
Senteued IN the coming to Humboldt,
Iowa, of Martin (Farmer) Burns, the
discoverer of Gotch. the most sugges-
tive of which is the enInity existing
between Burns and Hackenschmidt
says Ew Geiger. The Farmer started
on the trail of the big Russian shortly
after Hacks debut in America, urg-
ing on Yusif Mahomet, who became
obsessed with the idea that he was
made especially to trim the giant from
the London music halls. But now an
entirely new element enters into ami
mostly of Burns; namely, the pride he
nurses in his mat relationship to
Gotch.
The place Burns will assume in the
training will be to coach Gotch in the
general plan of attack and defense
but principally in the aggressive. This
has been .Gotch's chief style of Crap
ping and he owes not a little of it
ito his sponsor and first tutor. Burns
has been mapping out his plans for
gested the training corps now in the
cha mpion's camp. This fact of itself
is significant of the friendly feeling
between Burns and the champion.
In speaking of the coming match in
Omaha the other days the Farmer
said:
While Hack has been putting in
the past two years at catch as catch
can. he Is still a Graeco-Roman wrest-
Ter. as is evidenced by the truth that
as soon as he attempts to do anything
with an adversary's legs, he is lost
He is fine above the equator, but what
if you get him between the thigh and
the toes, he wonders On leg holds
Gotch excels. There is also another
thing. George Hackenschmidt is poor
on grip. Watch him work for twenty
minutes and notice how he switches to
the, nelson's to relieve his hands Of
the strain. Gotch can hold his grip
as long as he can retain his wind
and that means over the classic route
Up to this time Gotch has directed
his own training. But the farmer will
come on the scene ready to dictate
and he is the one man in the world
who can talk to Gotch and make his
conversation stick The balance of the
champions wrestling partners are
anxiously awaiting the coming of
Burns, not only because they like him
and have vast store of confidence in
; him, but also because they will be
glad to be relieved of some of the
grilling work they now undergo on the
mat.