HYGIENIC PROTECTIVE SUGGESTIONS. 



desire to have about her the nurse with a 

 "southern exposure." She fairly beams as she 

 enters the sick-room, and no matter how plain 

 her face this nurse always looks beautiful in the 

 eyes of the sufferer, to whom she invariably 

 seems to communicate sunshine, the power of 

 which dissolves and drives away all gloomy 

 forebodings. She cannot fail to cure the "blues," 

 for the sorriest grumbler in the "slough of de- 

 spond" on the sick list must needs feel ashamed 

 of such moods in the presence of the sunny 

 nurse. 



Let us all learn to let the sunshine- into our 

 hearts as well as to let it shine upon us. "Let 

 the sunshine in" and it will radiate from the 

 eyes and the smile of the good nurse ; be felt in 

 the touch of her gentle, kindly hand, and in the 

 tones of her sweet, cheerful, hope-inspiring 

 voice. Sunshine in the heart and in the soul 

 leaves no room for the germs of the disease sin, 

 which so often threatens to destroy our use- 

 fulness. 



It is not only the blessed privilege of each 

 nurse to be the best nurse possible and to be all 

 that is truest, purest and most perfect among 

 women, but it is also her duty. May we each 

 strive to grasp this duty as Heaven-born, so 



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