HYGIENIC SUGGESTIONS. 
suit 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 “worthy” are 
always given the fruits of their labor with all 
kindly appreciation. But let us remember, also, 
that there is an inborn love of the work para¬ 
mount in the heart of every nurse who ever be¬ 
comes in any true sense of the word worthy and 
a success. Such nurses enter the training-school 
with heart and soul and mind aglow, with hands 
ready and willing accurately to perform the most 
trivial or the most difficult tasks with equal care 
and promptness. These are the nurses who de¬ 
spise gossip, scorn deceit and all petty meanness, 
and who realize that personal responsibility is at¬ 
tached as a primary link in the chain of “qualifi¬ 
cations of the good nurse.” This realization 
keeps them ever on the alert to add to this pri¬ 
mary link all the others necessary to make them 
not only good nurses but the best nurses pos¬ 
sible. 
While realizing our duty towards others, do 
not let us forget that we owe a duty to-ourselves 
also; that we are responsible to God for our 
own health. There are broken-down nurses in 
the world to-day who ought still to be in active 
*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 $20 a 
week I am going to make when I am out for myself.” 
Girls, do not enter the field in such a spirit! The place 
for such nurses is outside the ranks with the nurses 
who cannot control temper. 
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The Successful 
Nurses. 
Our Duty 
to Ourselves. 
