The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-08
HOUR
CLUB HEARS
JUDGE ALLEN
Organization of Nurses
Formed for Mutual I'm
provement Engage
Suite Of Rooms
Elegant Furnishings Are
Provided Through the
Generosity Of William E.
Burnham.

Opening with public reception at
which the handsomely appointed quar-
tiers were thronged with interested
friends, the Leisure Hour club, an or
ganization of graduate nurses with
suite of rooms on the fourth flour
inaugurated last evening with plea.
SAINT address by Judge of Probate Ed
ward F. Hallen.
Judge Hallen was invited by the
nurses to attend the opening and by
reason Of his oratorical accomplish
ments was asked to make suitable
address. The rooms were filled with
guests, among them a number of ply
sicians and other professional men.
William E. Burnham, who furnished
the suite for the club, was among the
visitors.
Judge Hal1en's remarks follow:
"I have been requested by the grad
uate nurses to make a statement ex-
plantory of these exercises and OF
this occasion.
sAThis organization is known as the
Leisure Hour club and is made up
of large number Of graduate nurses
located in Bridgeport. The club has
been organized just a month, and
thanks to the enthu siasm Of the men,
bers and the generosity of it's friends,
the beginning is very suspicious. The
club has been organized for literary
and recreative purposes with view
to mental Improvement, largely along
professional lines.
with the growth of the city there
has been large advent of graduate
nurses here from other hospitals and
other cities and as all are laboring in
a common cause, it was DENIED desir-
able to have some central place or
club where all graduate nurses could
meet on common ground, exchange
ideas and become better acquainted.
tits intended by the club to ar
range a lecture course in the near
future and as a number of local doc
tors have promised their services in
this line the course can not fail to be
profitable.
you observe this evening the fine
appointment and splendid arrange
ment Of these club rooms. 1t is only
fair to state that these splendid fur
nishings complete have been provided
by our distinguished fellow-towns-
man, William e. Durham. Not only
has Mr.. Durham provided the entire
equipment but he has helped pay the
running expenses, and the graduate
nurses composing this club fully ap-
preciate his splendid generosity and
desire to go on record thanking him
for his kindly action.
at is a privilege for an outsider
to make some deserve dly favorable
comment on the fine work in both city
and State of the graduate nurse.
1--WE must not forget that the pro-
opment. The sanity and revered
Florence Nightingale is indeed the
pioneer, and it is remarkable fact
that whatever variation in details
may have been brought about, what
ever notifications may have been in
troduced, the genius of Florence
Nightingale grasped all the essentials.
NJ no q
nurse from 1873, when no trained
nurses were in existence in the Uni
ted States, down t. the present time
is indeed remarkable.
cit must be remembered that much
more is now required both by doctors
and public. Modern medicine requires
a thorough scientific training and re-
quires that the work of the physician
shall be supplemented by the services
of the trained and skilled nurse, who
is held responsible for her part Of the
work. The development of bacteri-
ology has revolutionized the care of
contagious disease, and modern asep-
tic surgery has added great burdens
to the present requirements of the
nurse. In the scientific care of dis
ease the graduate nurse is fifty equip
ped and in many difficult situations
good nursing furnishes nearly all the
essentials of the case.
MANY think a nurses life one sweet
period of gently stroking fevered
brows and wetting parched lips, be-
ing repaid by the sweet smiles OF the
grateful patient, but you who are in
the harness know that the work is
not a poem but a strict reality; that
every convalescent patient means
backache and often heartache and un-
renting care.
"Dr. S. Weir Mitchell of Philadel-
phia says there is no better business
for a tender hearted and clever wom-
an.
by years of study and effort you
have attained q place in the front
ranks in your of work. The dimaond
must be distinguished from its imi-
tation and the polished marble from
the rough block though each is use
full in it's appropriate pl~ce. In the
manufacture of silverware the word
Sterling has come to have a STAN
dard significance. This word on an
article is guarantee of intrinsic
value and the word can not be put
on a cheaper article without mourning
serious liability So, too, the words
graduate nurse have come to have
a special and valuable significance,
and the organiza ton of this club, with
its splendid furnishing and it's fine
atmosphere, tends in the direction of
your continued professional advance
ment
ST can close in no better way than
by quoting the following words of
Sir Walter Scott.
"But mankind-the race would per-
ish did they cease to aid each other.