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What was my duty under the circumstances? I felt it was the 

 hard thing — to tell her plainly but tenderly as possible, for her poor 

 heart w^as quite broken, the truth — there were other children in the 

 family. I will never forget her wail of distress, "If I had only known 

 it had to be done ! " 



I hold the highest part of the mission of the trained nurse is not so 

 much to do as to teach. Whatever home we enter should have better 

 ideas. of health and hygiene when w^e leave. Ask the nurse to show vou 

 how to do manj^ of the simpler things in the care of the sick and you 

 will find her glad to teach you some of the things she has spent three 

 years in learning. I hope the time will soon come when every high 

 school girl, will along with her cooking and sewing and other domestic 

 arts, be taught the simpler technique of the sick room. Almost every 

 woman is at some time in her life called on to act in place of a nurse to 

 some one she loves. How gladly, then, would she exchange her A. B. 

 degree for the knowledge and skill she knows she does not possess. 



I will believe the millenium near, even at the door, when our girls 

 are once more efficient home-makers and multiple mothers of healthy 

 children. When in addition to a liberal college education they know the 

 fine are of "home-keeping," and have learned the beautiful truth that 

 "home-keeping hearts are happiest." 



TRAINING OF CHILDREN. 



(Mrs. J. Ed. Hall, La Monte, Mo.) 



We best understand the feelings and affections 

 of God toward us when we bend over our oivn child. 

 and in our human parent-hood get a faint image of 

 divine Father-hood. 



The helplessness of children appeals to every 

 principle of nobleness in our hearts. Their inno- 

 cence exerts over us a purifying power. Our re- 

 sponsibility for them exalts every faculty of our 

 souls. In the very care which they exact, they 

 bring blessings to us. Life takes on a new and 

 deeper meaning. When we realize that into our 



hands has come a sacred burden — an immortal life — to be guarded and 



trained, we are made more thoughtful. 



Self is no longer the center. A new object, great enough to fill 



our life, and engross our highest powers, is now before us. Life be- 



Mrs. Hall. 



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