Evening star., 1940-11-03
Home for IncurubIes Offers
Many Chance for Useful Lives
Institution, Now Corine for l7S Patients,
Has Served Half Centucy
The homes scale Of charges is 4

Lie IlOtNc 6CdIC Ol CHARGES Is y
sliding one, sympathetically gradu-
ated to the need and resources Of
its patients by its Committee on
Admissions, headed by Miss Bessie
Kibbey. For many years she has
served the institution with countless
acts of mercy and the substantial
financial assistance which has en-
abled the untiring Ladies Board Of
Managers to perform the miracles
Of loving kindness and skillful care
which have charactered the homes
history. The patient who can pay
nothing receives care identical with
that Of the ones who have adequate
means.
Rescued from Blue Plains is a
graduate from one. Of our leading
women's colleges, who was once an
instructor in English. Now in one
Of the homes loveIest rooms, she
watches the seasons 60 by from the
panorama of its windows, with ev-
cry care and comfort that can be
devised. She particularly enjoys
visitors who will talk to her of the
world of letters.
There are four boys in the home,
one of whom suffered broken back
on a slide in a school playground.
For them visiting teacher is sup
piled.
Two old couples, instead of be-
ing separated, as so often happens
when illness and poverty overcome
the aged, are going down the years
together under this benefcent roof.
Patients in the home are under
the general direction of DR.. Linn F.
Cooper, lineal descendant of James
Fenimore Cooper His services are
free will offering to the institu-
ton.
Entertainment Provided.
Since for the most part, patients
are unable to 60 out to the world,
it is brought to them. The United
States Marine and Navy Bands
gave two concerts on the lawn last
summer. The Variety Club lends
films for a free movie entertainment
every week and supplies an operator
free of charge every other week. In
the course of the year entertain
ments, plays and concerts have been
given under auspices of schools,
churches, societies and such or
ganizations as the KiwaniS and
Elks Clubs. The homes library, a
pleasant, sunny retreat, is the gift
of the Soroptimist Club. There Is
a religious service every Sunday and
there are two communions every
north, one for Catholics and one
for Protestants.
In order that each patient may
have the interest of one special
outside person to turn to for SYM
pathy and advice, an effort is made
to have a well-organized system OF
visiting.
Heart and soul of the institution
is it's superintendent, Mrs. Ina F.
Viner, r. N, who is in her 18th year
of service for it. She and her first
assistant, Miss Mary Booth. r. N.
and the homes secretary, Mrs.
Jean Hall, with other members
of the household staff. are guides
counselors and friends to every
patient.
Nurses Being Trained.
Through the generosity Of the
Lisner legacy. the addition OF the
Laura C. Hartman memorial wing
has been made possible. with its
resultant increase in the number
OF patients cared for, and the es-
tablishment of the homes ore-year
course in practical nursing.
Here under conditions considered
ideal for practical training pur-
poses, selected groups of women
believed to have special fitness for
the alienation Of suffering, are
given an intensive 12-month course
in bedside care and nursing under
skilled instruction. During their pc
riod Of training, they receive $40
per month, have their own dining
room and live in special quarters
attractively furnished. A few vacan-
cies still exist in the fall class.
The Home for Incurables is the
result of years of continuing effort
on the part Of a comparatively small
group of public-spirited citizens
here who have unselfishly dedi-
Gated themselves to the cause Of
ministering to those for whose ills
medical science has found no cure.