Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-06-09
ADVICE GIVEN
2NEW NURSES
Mgr. CantWeII Lauds Nursing
Profession at Commence
ment Last Night
RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS
Delightful Musical Program
Given in Connection With
the Event
RELIGIOUS CONVICTIONS

Live up to your religious convic-
ton, possess and use the good,
sound, old shioned common sense
and you will make a success OF
nursing" Monsignor William p.
Cantwell. of St. Marys Roman
Catholic church, advised the two
members of the 1922 graduating
class of the Perth Amboy City Hos
pital Training School at the exer-
cises held in the high school audi
torium last night.
The exercises, as usual, were pre-
sented to a. large audience and con-
sisted of an elaborate musical pro-
gram of excellent talent and an in
spring talk by Rev. DIR. Cantwell.
The stage upon which sat the grad
yates. members of the nurses alum
nj, nurses still in training. the
speakers. members of the hospital
staff and Board of Governors. was
attractively decorated with fern.
wild and cut flowers and streamers
OF tho class colors, maroon and
black. t.r.-.---. ,.,---...f ~ ;.
/ At s o'clock Abel Larson's orches-
| ira entertained with selection at
the close of which the procession Of
entered, led by six high school boys
American flag. six members of the
Phi Sigma Sorority who served as
ushers, the two graduates. alumni
nurses, nurses in training, speakers,
Board of Governors and doctors.
Following a prayer by Rev. w.
Northey Jones, rector of st. Peters
church, Sidney Riddlestorffer made
the address of welcome in behalf Of
Mayor William c. Wilson who was
unable to be present. A pleasing
musical program was then given,
the first number of which was a
solo. "One Fleeting Hour" by Mrs.
Mollie Chaplin Ely, accompanied by
Maxwell MacMichael with violin
obligato by Mrs. Lester NJ. White.
A second selection, Think Love of
Me-" was charmingly sung by Mrs.
Ely A tenor solo, Mother o. Mine"
by Stanley Potter was greatly ap-
preciated.
Mrs. Lester NJ. White then rem
dered three difficult violin solos,
"Sicilienna and Rigandon." "Men>-
ct" and Chant Negre." The con-
cluding number in the opening
musical program was a soprano
solo, "Caro Nome" from the opera
Rigoletto, by Miss Ethel Killian..
Miss Killian sang this difficult oper-
attic gem with such ease and grace
that an encore was demanded by
the voluminous applause of the au-
dience.
The graduation address by Mon
signor Cantwell was next on the
program, the learned and popular
rector of st. Mary's church giving
not only the graduates but the audi
ence as we'll considerable food for
thought during his address, which
was intermingled with humorous
remarks.
Nursing" Rev. DIR. Cantwell
said, 81 imagine is as old as human
ity. AS old as humanity itself. /
really believe that Mother Eve her.
self was the first nurse" The speak
er then elaborated along this theme.
following the advance of medical
knowledge up through the ages un-
til the time of the Crimean war
when Florence Nightingale became
famous as the result of the efficient
system of nursing she put into ef-
feet in the English army following
years of study of this subject III
France.
Mgr. Cantwell told of the old
Chinese method of engaging a doc
| tor to keep a person well. AS long
| as the person remained we'll the
doctors pay continued, ne SAID, Dut
| the pay automatically ceased when
any sickness was contracted by the
| doctors patient. Even the Good
| Samaritan must have had nursing
knowledge, the speaker said, the
wine she placed on the wounds of
| the injured man acting as an anti
septic while the oil had healing
| effect.
when human need met human
| sympathy. nursing as we know II
today began" Mgr. Cantwell de-
clared. He referred to the knowl-
edge of bandaging possessed by the
Egyptians. 81 have read" the
speaker said, "of mummies being
found with 1000 yards of bandage
about them. Almost as much red
| tape as to be found in our govern
ment."
In Greece. Mgr. Cantwell said.
they had n wonderful knowledge of
medicine. The Romans, a nation of
conquerors. did not entertain SYM
pathy for the sick. During the first
ages of Christianity, however, the
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