BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 



private work, finds it impossible to have her 

 hours "off duty." So often there is no one in 

 the home who is sufficiently experienced in the 

 care of the sick to be trusted to relieve her 

 even for a few hours of much needed rest. If 

 the expense of a second trained nurse cannot be 

 afforded, then the path of duty is obvious. 

 These hours of danger, as a rule, do not last 

 through many days. Then we must again 

 take up our "sponge" and "plunge" baths, our 

 brisk walks in the fresh air and sunshine more 

 rigorously than ever, and so regain our lost 

 tone. 



Let us decide right in the beginning as we 

 enter nursing ranks to divide our time of recre- 

 ation in cultivating all the aids to health and 

 usefulness (not neglecting the mind), and so 

 prolong the "length of days" we shall spend 

 in pursuit of our high and noble calling. High 

 and noble indeed to those who enter the work 

 in the right spirit. Not for the sake alone of 

 the money in it,* although the financial side of 

 the question is important, "surely the laborer 

 is worthy of his hire," and be assured that to 



*The writer once had the misfortune to hear a pupil 

 nurse, who had been rebuked for neglect of duty, make 

 this remark: "I don't care how I get through my work 

 in training school. What I am thinking of is the $25 a 

 week I am going to make when I am out for myself." 

 Girls, do not enter the field in suc^ a spirit ! The place 

 for such nurses is outside the ranks with the nurses 

 who cannot control temper. 



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