The Washington times., 1919-06-04
Administering Angels
That What the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society Sends Into
Homes Where Superstition and Ignorance Kin Mere
Children Than Illness
By EARL GOODWIN.

If you triAe sick, all you need perhaps is little
medicine, but you very sick you need to take
care Of you and Of your loved is ILL., you
likely to be in despair unless you get trained
You know well that with a trained nurse at hand the
battle against disease and pain and suffering half
She brings with her the great knowledge of those powers of
disease and darkness which 10 you closed book ter
ribe deathdealng mystery She is worth more than all
the medicine you buy for she brings with her the power
to ntepose between death and e She lifts the feet of the
suffering one from the path going down hill and places them
gently on the pleasant road to health.
But nurses cost. So much so that some people can
never ahordthem, and some people have never even heard
of them.
Visiting Nurse Society formed in Washington and now
has corps Of trained who take their skill and won
du to those of the very poor whom they reach
They go into the homes where tiny children but
little bundle Of pain and put into the all the knowledge
and skill that scientists have been able to compress
human brain and pair Of hands and eyes
They take light into those dark places where mothers
are killing their children with the most awful poison
known to marIgnoranee.
They stand on guard IN those long and weary hours
when child is to be born in squaor and poverty and give
the poor little thing exactly the scientific start in life that
the child In the palace would get
They fight germs They combat dirt-awful, sickenng,
diseasebearng dirt which makes poverty and ignorance
terrible to meet In open battle.
The Instructng Visiting Nurse Society is principally
phanthropc Institution Is the expression Of the loving
care Of group Of Washington who realize that al Of
the MONEY In the world do NOTHING unless prop
ery spent An the medicine IN the world would not relieve
the pain and disease and suffering in of the homes OF
this city unless trained there to administer IT.
Il is Washington ehaitywhen you support the mstu6
tive Visiting Nurse Society you supporting the kind OF
charity that begins at home and remains at home.
To my mind this Is ideal organization doing work.
that cannot be measured by any standard know. It is
twentieth century good Samaritan for you win remember
that the principal feature Of the Samarans charity
that he TOOK CARE Of the poor chap that had been badly
handled by the thieves he could have given him money
and gone by, but what the beaten needed was CARE
and he got It The good Samaritan Gmie Is worked to
death-but there isn't any better one
Look at this record Of the society for 1913 and then ten
me- you can where money for real service to humanity
could be better spent than with this organization:
~cned for 1910 patients and made 1929 visits Attended
without charge ISIS Of 39zz dismissed pGenS Made $3.50 visits
Ripe general nursing Instructions; 1880 1i for general
purposes; 4Sl7 visits for bay Nursing and 1884 visits for ubeeB-
Iosis Instructions Had $50 tuberculosis b hand wheH the
District this work Managed the Red Cross
Day Camp which had total a3endus Of SE27 eheB during the