The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-04
GIRLS LIVE IN DREAMS
OF THE FUTURE

Girls, you 90 not neeo cfgsl"'
gazing ball to find if the future be
dark or bright. Your happiness lies
within yourself and, true as it is fun
nv, that depends on how much you
forget yourself!
To be needed is to be happy. 10
come Intimately, tenderly, construc-
lively into human lives is happiness
and there is no other sort that will
not wear threadbare with the pass
ing Of the years.
Marriage will give US that real
happiness" you think; but marriage
meas the making of home, and
that takes big heart and understands
ing and requires special training in
these days.
If you are planning self-support,
nursing will keep you womanly as no
other work can do. It can develop
in you courage and character, ten
derness and insight, teaching you
many things that will make life, mar
ried or unmarried, happier; for, of
all the lessons that training teaches,
the greatest is the joy of service.
You surely want a broader life
with much more human interest in it
than q business Office or store can
possibly give. In nursing, you will
find this human interest-and if you
really want it you may also obtain
an understanding heart.
Girls, you are needed now in the
hospitals that can not fill their beds
with the suffering who need care be-
cause I there are not enough pupil
nurses to give that care.
You do. not need money to learn
to be q nurse. The hospital train
ing school viii provide you with liv-
ing, uniforms, lectures, and eight or
ten dollars month for text books
and ineidentals during your three
years Of training. But you must be
at least nineteen years old, have COM
pleted the four years Of high school,
and be in good physical health before
o first.rate training school will accept
you. no matter how badly it needs
/, nurses.
And when you have finished train
ing, ever so many types of nursing
arc open to you. One nurse, who
teaches in little country towns, Home
Hygiene and Care of the Sick for the
Red Cross, writes Of woman who
could neither read nor write, yet
caraa to every lesson bringing her
daughter. She listened earnestly,
practiced the making of a sick bed
without a wri:lkle, learned just the
right way to turn and bathe helpless
patient, but the nurse felt sadly that
it would be impossible for her to take
a written examination. Imagine her
admiration when that woman appear
ed on xexa mination, dictated all her
answers TO her daughter, who wrote
them down, and passed with flying
cohers. Another pupil walked four
miles each way and never missed a
lesson. Could you ever get bored
helping such eagerness::
Every state in the union is trying
to get public health nurses. AS one
Of these, you are a vital part of a
conamunity's life, with, maybe, little
home Of your own, and the constant
assurance that you are needed and
loved. You may help keep disease
from a whole town or county, teach
ing it to keep well, starting its little
children off to health, to happiness
and usefulness by all you do and say
and live.
Listen to the true story Of
"a Regular Nurse"
There had gathered in the court
house the little group of women who
had struggled and prayed for a Pub
lie Health nurse for their mountain
community. The men of local influ-
enee, who had opposed that strug-
gle, consented at last to consider the
matter.
Unmoved, the men sat; anxious, the
women waited during a discussion of
the public health nurse, her qualifi-
cations, ard the need for her that ex-
isted.
Finally, local doctor rose and
said slowly, 81 don't know about
these public health nurses, but reg
ular nurse came to our town and
tended the low-downdest fellow in