The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-05-31

Ting in the kitchen or someone drops
a flat iron or someone falls out Of
bed. There goes belated or be-
G arlied honk cart, but the dearest OF
all is the sweetest song of Chanti-
cleer who announces that something
has happened or is about to happen.
4 nd yes, far away gas boat works
its way up the bayou. If you listen
by the window you can hear the sill
ence, outside.
And what about the nurses? Bless
their dear hearts and helping hands.
Have you ever seen the old fashion
ed game of battledore and shuttle
cock? Well, everybody is the battle
dore and the nurse is the shuttle
cock. In time they learn to accom-
plish much with the least lost motion
in time they learn to rest to relax
in little bits Of moments, by taking
Of the stepping stones
they can work their way onward
thru the day or night, with compare
lively little fatigue; until they learn
to mix gumption with their tasks,
they are rolling grindstones up hill.
The head nurse to be a success must
be all eyes, all ears, all smiles. She
must be the soul Of system. She
must understand values. Hers must
be the hands of steel in the glove of
velvet. She must attract by true
sympathy the best way to get help
in any work is to give help. Think
for others-work for others, always
others. Each of Napoleon's men low
ed him; obeyed him implicitly. The
nurses are only links in great
chain, and each must be as strong
as the strongest. The cook. Why the
cook is one of the chief officers.
Some cooks get $500 to $4,000 a
year and some don't. Cooking is a
fine art-to be cook, real cook
in hospital one must know many,
many things. Shaping grub together
and dishing it out is one thing. Sci
entifically blending food values
cooking the ingredients
and temptingly and artistically serv-
ing "is consumation devoutly to be
Wished but seldom attained. So of
most cooks we say with friend
Teddy.
"De mortuis nil nisi bonum" or
as Perlemutter would translate i
you must expect to he mortified if
you vii persist in eating tings init
bones in EN-. God forbid it."
The head surgeon Of this institu-
lion is one you might call 100 per
cent efficient-when he is not cut
Ting up he is cutting up. He is on a
dead strain all the time-sort Of "a
Chopin obsequal cake-walk, or the
other thing from Saul. If they make
any better ones they have to grow
them under glass.
And now we have come to the
great heart of the whole matter
but mono man can write it. When
the reporter came from the trenches
MS brethren gathered about him for
news. To all be gave q vacant stare,
and spoke hardly at all. Nothing to
say. You have to live thru it to know
It. Consider the amount of thought
IF energy it took to make St. Mary
Hospital what it is; a big brother, q
strong friend to all in time Of sick
ness or accident. Think of the strug-
yles on slippery roads, the apathy
md unappreciation, the uncertainty
md then glimmer of dawn. Think Of
what it is and what it could be, with
! smile and helping hand from peo-
Die who are willing but who don't |
;hink. Ye people of st. Mary come
o see as I have seen. Someone must |
YEAR the burden. This is not COM
nercial enterprise. Look at the |
looks-look at the outfit. 'These
re the times that try mems souls. !
his Is the crucible that melts away /
nd burns the dross and leaves
he real booster-the real
1an. Someone did it! Some ones
abor and thought made this worthy
Institution possible. Puzzle picture