HYGIENIC SUGGESTIONS. 
from the bottom for a while every day and open 
the doors also. Do not rest or sleep in a current 
of air. It is an injurious habit for even the most 
vigorous. 
Do not sleep in any garment worn during the 
day. Learn to relax the muscles when resting. 
Do not sleep with a pile of pillows beneath the 
head; use only a small pillow. Better no pillow 
at all than to be held up in almost a sitting posi¬ 
tion all night, rounding the shoulders and mak¬ 
ing the chest hollow. 
Keep your own room clean and neat. It is a 
matter quite surprising to find any number of 
nurses whose rooms look as if “a cyclone had 
struck them,” and yet who would not be guilty 
of such negligence if they were more thoughtful 
of laws of health as applied personally. 
Sunshine.— Sleeping rooms and all rooms oc¬ 
cupied by the delicate should be rooms with a 
southern exposure, so as to have the effects of 
the sun’s rays for the greater part of the day. 
Not only should we live in the sunshine as much 
as possible, but we should ourselves be sunny. 
The only place for the gloomy nurse is with the 
mercenary nurse and the nurse who “enjoys 
poor health”—outside the ranks. This thought 
is particularly applicable to those nurses who hon¬ 
estly desire to be successful. Those with a sunny 
disposition are always at a premium. What sick 
one can fail to love and 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 sun- 
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Remove 
Day Garments. 
Let the 
Sunshine In. 
The Sunny 
Nurse. 
