New Britain herald., 1915-01-06

work and charged only ten dollars a
 week, and some fine ones who charged
 cnly eight dollars.
 But of course the doctors have to
 be good to the nurses and 1t did seem
 pretty good, when we thought Johnnie
 was dying, to have some one who
 knew just what to do. He probably
 would have been all right, but we
 didn't know it. She told us she had
 seen worse cases get we'll. After all,
 I am glad we had her. It seemed
 awful swell to have a real nurse with
 that dinky cap. I bet she wouldn' t
 wear it if she didn't know 1t made
 her look pretty" and so on.
 E ''The Sweetest Thing"
 You are not sent for to that home
 as a reformer," continued the speaker
 Every home, like a nation, likes its
 own laws and customs. It's ways may
 be beyond understanding. You must
 remember we have each one of us
 more than a million ancestors and
 get some queer traits. If you find
 dirt, step over it the first day; it may
 be normal for that home. If you find everything clean and scientific, con-
 ceal your surprise. If the patient is the man of the house, he hopes you will fall in love with him, and the wife knows he will with you. Every man thinks he is the sweetest thing God ever made, and the wife wonders he isn't kidnapped
 "You will notice how a man enjoys his first shave, for then he feels ire sistible, especially if he Is the kind of man that leaves his hair as the barber brushes it. His hands haven't been so clean for a long time. If the wife is the patient, she will like you as we'll as her last nurse. There are some families that will make you very unhappy. But there are many others that will make you feel easy and happy, and when you leave, it will be the parting of true friends and as long as you live you will know their home is always open to you"
 Don't Expect Gratitude.
 Don't look for gratitude nor ex- rect it, said Dr. Bradstreet. You will probably get all you desire, but any one looking for gratitude is about as foolish as the politician who ex- poets uninterrupted success. We are put into this world not merely to en- joy life, but to help things along. And if any of you entered your pro- fession with any purpose lower than the desire to be of some use in the world, I am sorry for such a one" "In the awful turmoil now going on in the world we are brought face to face with startling suddenness with vital and far-reaching questions" said the speaker in one of his concluding remarks "We have been sailing
 rather serenely under the flag of Christianity. Nations which boasted of following the Prince of Peace and which preached and sang Good Will to Men" are now shooting each other up with all the slaughter that proud science makes possible. Neither Christianity nor science is under trial but society is. I have no misgivings as to the final working out of civiliza- tion-Gods in His heaven-but I am
 sure there will be no lasting peace on earth until the principles with which you begin your life work become the kev to all actions. There is no true and lasting happiness for any of us except by working for some others good"
 Tribute to Dr. w. w. Bracket. pr. Fromen in his speech of pre- sentation of the diplomas paid a warm l tribute to the late pr. w. w. Bracket. "On occasions like thiS,' he said, i've are apt and rightly. to look forward | to the future, but sometimes we can not help looking backward for a m moment and when l do so tonight, I remember the last graduation at this n1ace and I see a shadow fit by. It is n memory of dear friend to you