Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-08

no YOU know it's simply wonderful the |
~ way the women OF this city have
come to the fore and are working their
other places helping the doctors and
nurses to combat the influenza.
Down at the Pennsylvania Hospital, for
instance. there are Estelle Sanders Jean
Bullitt~ Marian wurts and six or eight
others doing whole time, half time and
whole days work Marian Wurts 1.
studying nursing regularly and is pro-
bationer at present.
Some of the girls go In at o'clock
and work till I. others go at and stay
untn 4. while others still spend the whole
time at the hospital. They are not di-
rectly exposed to the influenza, but do
all kinds of work for the surgical and
noncontagous wards One girl had
ward with twenty-six beds, and she swept
II out in between times, when not combinG
patients hair, washing patients, changing
bed clothes and doing the dozen-and-one
things that are necessary to help sick
person in one day-things. you know, that
can be done by those who are not regu'
lar full-fedged nurses. ! understand, how.
ever, that the hospitals want those who
have taken first-aid courses. and those
who have had the three months of inten-
sive training are invaluable, they tell me.
T JUST can't get over Edith Earle Lees
death. It's sad Her little baby
is still living, but il weighs only five
pounds and. without it's mother | am
afraid it will have a hard time to get
along. Everywhere one turns one hears
Of fresh tragedy, il seems, until one
realizes that ones mental attitude toward
things may help rather than hinder the
epidemic, and we must call halt and
turn our minds to other things whenever
possible. Mrs Beggs, Frances Earle that
was, is still in very critical condition,
but every one is hoping and praying thpt
she may be spared.
T WONDER how the enlisted men feel
i these days with all the entertainments
and dances called off for the time of the
epidemic. / should really think it would
be a relief, in way, because they are n
muchentcrtaincd lot don't you think? How.
ever they do like it and probably will miss
it very much.
| hear Miss Martha Barry is going to
organize Il number of girls to sing and
entertain the boys during the winter, as
they did last year. You remember Mar.
garetta Dixon and Dorothy Pagan, who.
by the way, is Margaretta's niece, and |
think, II anything, week or two older
than auntc; Helen I'tfeld and Marie
Zara were among those who sang with
Miss Barry at League Island in the Fall
Dorothy Fagan's mother was Cassie
Dixon, Margaretta's eldest sister, that's
where the neceship comes in. They are
both awfuly pretty girls, Margaretta is
rather fair and Dorothy extremely dark,
20 the contrast is most attractive, you will
admit.
IT'S lovely how much one is appreciated
Il sometimes, is it not! Especially when
you have worked like mad and haL
much to do, you had idea
oil how you would get through, and
then Well. it happened thus Queenie's
sister had cold and doctor thought she
had better stay in bed, then Queenies S
other sister received word of her husband $
illness and she and her mother started
South to him. So Queenic and Miss b,
the children's governess, were left in
charge. Queenie had much Red Cross out.
side and four nephews and nieces TO see to
at home So she flew from pillow to post
all day, and when she came home half
dead one evening and had thousand.
and-one things to see to then, after they
were accomplished she finally dropped into
chair utterly exhausted, to find her small
nephew, aged two, blue of eye, gold OF
hair, pink Of check and with an adorable
dimple, gazing mildly at her, and to hea,
him remark to his small cousin, aged three
Isn't auntie a funny girl?'
NANCY WYNNE.