The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-01-04
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The latest woman Of American
birth to attain a high social position
in Europe 10 Nine. Coromilas. wife OF
the recently appointed prime minister
Of Greece. Before her marriage to
Coromilas in tho home of her sister,
Mrs. Edison Gallaudet. Of New Lon
don, Conn, five years ago, the young
matron was Anna Ewing Cockrell,
ted States senator from Missouri. So
successful has been the entertaining
done by Nine. Coronilas in her hus-
bands residence in Athens that she
is credited with having contributed
greatly to his rise from under sccrc-
taiy. of foreign affairs. which post
he held at the time of their marriage,
to the premiership. Half of royal
ties In Europe, relatives of the reign
ing family Of the Hellenes. nave been
guests of the prime minister and his
consort at some time.
Mrs. w. q. Fryberger of Minne-
apolis. who gives Il lecture here on
January ID, speaks as follows of
"Natoma," the new American opera.
with music by Victor Herbert and
libretto by Joseph Rcdding.
"Natoma." said Mrs. Frybergcr sis
perhaps the most popular and the
most lasting of all American operas.
1t resembles the French and Italian
operas in style having several points
in common with these older compost
tions but the music is not uniformly
good. Natoma has boon spoken of as
grand opera in spots but throughout
it has tho characteristics of light
opera. 1t eXccls in righteousness"
THE librctto." She said. has been
severely criticized but although il
may not be of the hest il has enough
dramatic situations to hold it togeth-
or. The text of an opera to be good
should have been rythm and con-
nectcd thought but it has more very
good parts and was chosen by MIR.
Herbert from among some eighty odd
ihrrttos offered for his opera.
ut is generally admitted, however.
that the hest feature of the opera is
its orclestration and the reception
which il has gained is Il point i'm ia
vor of tho singing of grand opera in
English"
Augustus S. Downing. NJ. A. III. d.,
first assistant commissioner Of cdll-
cation Of tho state of New York, says
in an address published in tho Amer
lean Journal Of Nursing. 81 am deeply
interested in tho PURSES training
school in the University of Mime
sofa. Thor il teens to- me is Il school
organized on the right principles.
They require graduation from at least
u four-Ncars' high school course. They
require II physical examination Of cv-
cry candidate for admission. and I'M
less h can stand the test the individ-
ual is rejected. Then they give that
young f"ur months of prclim-
mary training before she is admitted
to the hospital at all. She pays s25
for this. She is independents. just as
the studcnt at the normal school here,
or in Columbia university. or else
where. is Independent. She lives
where she pleases, outside of the fact
that h must do tho work of this
course and at the end must satisfac-
torily prove II. At the end of the
preliminary training she is given Il
month 1.-TWO months> of probation;
she is taken into the hospital to see
whether. after all. she is fit to train.
whether she can he trained or wheth-
err she cannot, whether she will he n
nurse or whether she won't. whether
h has human sympathy enough,
whether she Il take the profession
al course. and. after a month ttwo
months) of probation, the superin-
tendent of the nurses training school
and Il committee of the school deter
mine whether that girl shall be admit
ted or not. Then. after that, she has
about two and.a half years of train
ing in addition. She is only permit
ted to work eight hours. That in
cludes her theoretical training, her
professional training in the nursing
home II her work in the wards and
h is never allowed to work along
side of the bed of her patient unless
there is'a trained nurse there to di-
rect her.
1t seems TO me that Minnesota has
started the problem of nurses train
ing in the right direction; that is. go
ing at it in Il direct. straightforward
way, instead OF going around it from
the rear and I believe that Minnesota
will outdistancc the other states in no
very long time in the question Of
training nurses as they como here
from her training school. They arc
really going to a university.
Minnesota is in advance of us in it's
requirements for entrance to the med
zeal profession. and so far as this
school is concerned. is in advance of
us in the organization of "A nurses
training school. They are really go
ing to take nurses primarily for the
purpose of educating nurses. not pri-
marily for the nursing of the sick at
Il minimum expense to tho hospital."