The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-12
In New York
Q 1865 MA
BY PAUL HARRISON

2NGW LOIAs VaAy 44-SAO NOSeAt
look or act like a nurse. More like
an efficient private secretary. Strong
and infinitely competent Taciturn
herself, but vibrating the kind OF
human-ness that makes her the
recipient of everyone else's conf
dences.
Madame Louise de Kiriline il
the head nurse who saw the d.
onne quintuplets through their
first perilous year. Now she has
come to New York to write about
it, and is vacationing at the same
time-theaters, night clubs, shop
ping and busman's-holiday visits
to some of the great hospitals.
She's interested in dancing
and does dance excellently. Iso.
lation in the backwoods Of On
tario hasn't narrowed her per-
spective or dulled her discrimina-
ton. She has enjoyed some plays,
disliked others, and can tell you
why. Most fun she has had in
Manhattan was seeing the musical
comedy, Anything Goes" In
twenty minutes conversation she
is likely to talk about anything
from Nijinsky to the rhumba,
evening gowns, moose hunting,
Fascism and canoes. She speaks
Swedish, French Russian and
English with a slight accent. She
intends to learn Spanish.
Shrewd Shopper
Swedish herself, her name is
Russian because she married an Of
ficer in the army Of the Car. He
was shot by the Bolsheviks. Her
hair is not blonde, but black-a
thick mop of it. Dining with her,
you keep noticing her long shapely
hands. And her eyes, which seem
to be taking in everything.
Tallish and slender, Madame de
style. People who have gone
shopping with her say she buys
with the same shrewd decisive
ness that she does everything
eiise. '-f-f Hike THAT very 1nurff1, OF
at do not care for that and it's
all over. Not all her purchases
are suitable for the north woods
Last winter, when 1t was go be-
low zero, she wore moecasins and
wooden stockings to a benefit
dance for the quins' new nursery.
A few women, however, wore silk
hose and evening slippers. and
actually froze their legs.
Used to Hardships
She guesses she's getting soft be-
cause this year she bought a closed
car with a heater. Previously she
had driven an open car, and some-
times had to blink her eyes rap
idly to keep the lashes from freez-
ing together. One night she an
swered a hurry call to a Canadian
mother and rode two hours in a
cutter through canyons of snow.
A quick injection OF morphine and
the patient was bedded down In a
pile of hay on the cutter. Then the
long ride back, with the nurse
trotting alongside to keep from
freezing. Next a half-hour ride in
a cold baggage car, a rapid trans
fer to hospital, and an emergency
operation.
Just routine stun, and she
loves it. Her family in Sweden
keep imploring her to come back
from ''that terrible country"
Twenty miles from the quintup-
let's elaborate establishment is
her own house, a log cabin. She
keeps flowers alive through the
winter by surrounding them with
oil lamps. The cabin overlooks
q lake, where she canoes and
swims and fishes. Behind II is a
wilderness for hunting. Before
the gums hospital was built Ma
dame de Kiriline drove to the d.
onne house each dawn and back to
her cabin at night. Il
Orchids ana Such
She likes flying over the city;
the Rockefeller Center Rainbow
Room; sea food, especially clans,
which neither she nor Doctor Da-
foe had encountered before; iced
orange juice; orchids; not having
10 pay for programs In the thea
ters; the low taxi fares; and pic
lures OF the auintupiets.
She's pleased about her writ.
ing: find she can express herself
a good deal more fiuently that
way than In Conversations Hear.
Ing her speak. you're heminded
OF tho Fortnight, scandinavian
hluntness Of . Lindbsrs or a
Carlo.
Among the things Louise d.
Klriline doesn't like IN New oyrh
are tho edors. the slumn, the Zoos
and the foolish question wemen
reporters ask, such NJ whether
she kisses the babies every fDDrns
Ing. Neither does she like the Idea
of drowning salads u marennhlge
n the swedish restaurants here
ss ~ chooses uses. eng NJ. .s e. 80 . 80 veg