The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-25
Miss Bertha Clement District Nurse Of the
Anti tuberculosis Association, Chats With Dolly
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLH

pressionistic" stage.
| For
Then she gets the color and the lights
and the shadows
| But
Not the technique.
The crisp, immaculate uniform Of the
nurse-the fool hand on the fevered brow.
the holding of the cup of cold water to
the parched lips-this is the picture that
appeals to her In vague sort of roman-
tic way.
| And
| So
She turns to nursing as sort of ad-
venture.
OF course
Many times it Is finance and not ro
| nance that sends a girl forth on this mis-
| sion.
| Looking for a profession. she finds that
her training may ba had free OF charge
and from $40 to sS5 a week held out as =
steady salary is better far than clerking
| or teaching
| Still
. Again
The psychology of her desire is the adj
vance impulse, where she belongs to some
I Tihfit nOuSeHOld,
| 1t means some little social distinction
| perhaps much-and her ambition sings
merrily at the thought.
! So
We see this type with utter naivete de-
Gliding to follow the profession
In any or all of these cases the girl
! really has no idea of the stern realities
of a nurses duties
Trials?
Oh, yes, there are many. but the eff
Gent nurse must be willing and ready
| to eat up the trials In store for her.
! trials fit for poor princess in a fairy
| tale, and which she must conquer with
no other magic help than the dwarfs of
her own strength-the sprites of her own
/ intelligence
! 1t Is all trial from the frst-there Is no
last, unless she gives it up entirely.
Trials of her character, trials of her
| mind, trials of her perseverance, trials of
her temper, trials of her pride-all trials
nurses life is a little life training in
| a nut shell,
That's it,
| She must work from morning until night
and from night until morning oft times,
with the patience of Job and the brain
of Athenei
Can you find a more exacting calling
one that demands more womanliness,
more character, more Christianity?
There came to this city some three
months ago, through the generosity of
Birmingham's splendid and public spirited
citizen, Mr.. Eugene L. Brown, young
woman who has given her life work to
nursing the victims of tuberculosis.
| Miss Bertha Clement is the name of the
young woman in question. and her office
is that of district nurse of the Anti-Tu-
| bercuoss association.
ic bao II -,
prompted the thought in Mr. Browns
heart to contribute his mite" so to
speak. by employing the services of Miss
| Clement in alleviatng the suffering of
his fellow men--those who are victims
of the great white plague.
Miss Clement for two years and a half
was at the bedside of Mr.. William Car
rott Brown-the Youngest brother of Mr.
Eugene Brown, and all through his pa
tEetic illness-hopeless even from the
start Miss Clement watched over him
and administered In her gentle tender
way every comfort that could pallate
his pain and suffering.
Since then Mr.. Eugene Brown has rem
dered service past calculation in its
effect in making 1t possible for Miss
/ Clement to be employed here by the Anti
tuberculosis association.
1t is touching tribute to the memory
of his beloved and honored brother--a
material DeneHt 10 the community which
Is priceless in its usefulness
Miss Clements tribute to the mind and
personality of the late Mr.. William Gar
rott Brown Is surprising sweet and kind
This noble and honored son of Alabama
whose intellect and mind We're second to
none in all this broad land is a theme
of never ending tenderness on her part
!, and she knew him perhaps better thar
anyone else.
Miss Clement is the type of woman who
seems by nature TO be fitted for the higf
calling of 2 nurse.
Strength, physically and mentally. as
/ sert themselves In her speech and man
ner and movement, and her kindlines,
and power withall make her most i'm
rpessive character-a woman on whom
you could rely with faith and hope ant
a feel of absolute confidence in any grea
china cleric.
+ Her work among the tubercular patient.
here has met with happy results on al
, sides.
She is so earnest and so interested ant
so hopeful-that is the most characteris
! tic of her many attributes--of the even
, tual stamping out of the dread whit.
plague that success is bound to be he
, reward-success full measure and to over
, flowing.
= i've been trained nurse for II
0 years now" Miss Clement told me tn,
e other dav when we Were talking abou
: her work, at was hard fight to gail
i the consent of my family to take Il,
: nursing as a profession but I had al
ways wanted to do it, Even as a littl
= girl / always had more sick dolls thai
q anybody else and whenever any of m,
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