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who sentjiim their money. The gullibility of 
the dupes of this fraud affords ample reason 
why “dealers in names,” (the men who sell 
lists of names of people to whom sueh sharp¬ 
ers as “Lawrence” mail lying circulars) charge 
more for the names of those affected by 
chronic disease than for those of any other 
description of people. These simpletons are 
found to be incorrigible, and after having 
been bamboozled by one swindling medicator, 
they straightway apply to another or to 
the same plying the old rascality under a 
new name. 
To many Inquirers: We don’t recom¬ 
mend Allen Bros,, advertising agents, this 
city ...The device of the Pillow Inhaling 
Company, Philadelphia, Pa.,is not a humbug, 
though the claims put forward in its behalf, 
like those in most advertisements, are a trifle 
extravagant....The City Home Quest. Hart¬ 
ford, Conn., is, we are assured, what it claims 
to be ...The Jewel M’f’gCo., Toledo, Ohio, is 
financially, we are informed, a strong and re¬ 
sponsible concern; but we cannot, guarantee 
that the promises it makes will be performed. 
.. .D. C. Thompson & Go.,1193 Broadway.New 
York, “Manufacturing Chemists,”is the same 
old B rah mo Yarn concern so often denounced 
in this department—au old humbug under a 
new alias. 
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CONDUCTED BY MISC RAY CLARK. 
TRAINED NURSES. 
There is connected with the old New York 
Hospital,—which has a history of its own, and 
one to be exceeding proud ofa school for 
training nurses, in which women of suitable 
age, and sufficient physical endurance, are 
trained to take intelligent care of the sick. 
Of this training school, Zilpha E. Whittaker, 
formerly of Chautauqua County, N. Y., and a 
personal friend of the writer, is the principal. 
As medical science has advanced, physicians 
have felt tbe need of assistants who could give 
nicer care, and closer, more intelligent obser¬ 
vation than could be expected of nurses un¬ 
trained to the business; realizing that the re¬ 
covery of the sick is quite as much due to care¬ 
ful, judicious nursing, as to the skill of the 
physician, or the efficacy of his prescriptions. 
It was to supply this need that training 
schools were organized. These schools are in¬ 
tended, primarily, to benefit hospital patients, 
and then to furnish accomplished nurses to 
private families, and to supply hospitals, in¬ 
firmaries, dispensaries and asylums, where no 
training schools exist, with competent nurses 
and matrons. The number of pupils is limited 
to 36, and the terms of the hospital year begin 
on the 1st of April and the 1st of October. 
Applicants must be between 25 and 35 years 
of age, and possess a good common-school 
education. They must produce certificates of 
good character, good health, and physical ca¬ 
pacity for the duties of nurses. If admitted, 
they are expected to serve one month on pro¬ 
bation, during which time they receive board 
and lodging, but no compensation, unless ad¬ 
mitted as pupils, when they must sign an 
agreement to remain in the school and subject 
themselves to the rules of the hospital for the 
full period of eighteen months from the com¬ 
mencement of their term, unless failing of pro¬ 
motion ; and also for an additional period of 
six months, or any part thereof, as nurses, 
should their services be required; but no pupil 
will be expected to remain for a longer period 
than two years. A monthly' allowance of 
$10,00 for the first six months, of $13,00 
for the next six months, an l of $10,00 
dollars for the remainder of the term, is made 
each pupil. Board, lodging and washing are 
furnished without charge, together with gra¬ 
tuitous nursing if sick. Instruction in the 
profession is given by means of lectures, which 
are demonstrated at the bedside of the sick. 
This latter work is under the direct 
superintendence of the principal, Miss 
Whittaker. A course of instruction in 
the proper preparation of food for the 
sick is also given by Miss Parloa. At the 
time of graduating the pupil is presented 
with a handsome gold badge pin. After gra¬ 
duating, tbe nurses register at the hospital, 
where any desiring their services will be able 
to obtain their address. 
I was informed by the principal that the 
demand for trained uurses is greatly in ex¬ 
cess of tbe supply. The wages of a trained 
nurse are $3.00 per day or $20.00 per week. 
There are at the present time 26 of 
these hospital training schools in th=» United 
States the principals of more than one-third 
of which (9), are graduates of the New York 
hospital. All the uurses employed at the 
hospital are women, it being impossible, as 
Miss Whittaker informed me, to obtain men 
who are sufficiently kind, honest, and reliable. 
There are, however, always men who are de¬ 
nominated “orderlies” within call to perform 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. APRIL 4 
any service needed in the male wards. These 
training schools serve a double beneficence— 
not only in providing better care and nursing 
for the sick but in opening up another meaus 
of employment for intelligent women, who 
either from necessity or choice, are led to do 
something for self support. And those who 
avail themselves of this work, are by no 
meaus confined to the former class, as I was 
assured that many of the young ladies, are 
from highly respectable, well-to-do families, 
who from an innate love of independence, 
coupled with a desire to be of use in the world, 
have chosen an occupation which above all 
others affords an opportunity to accomplish 
their wishes. Aud if faces are an iuder 
to capability and character, as they' surely 
are, the album of cabinet photographs of 
graduates, shown me by r the principal 
together with the nurses on duty in the 
various wards, indicate a high degree of 
benevolence, and lofty strength of char¬ 
acter, But, in order to become an efficient 
nurse, various peculiarities, which by many 
are considered the exclusive prerogative of the 
sex. must be laid aside. That, nervousness 
which finds voice in a scream at the sight of a 
mouse, or causes a paroxysm of terror when 
a bug or a spider makes a sudden appearance, 
is entirely out of place here. 
All sentimentalism and fastidiousness must, 
of necessity, be laid aside, for the offices of the 
sick room, as we all know, involve much that 
is unpleasant. But the faithful nurse who is 
devoted to her calling strives to exemplify, 
as much as possible the ideal laid before her 
in the address of Dr. Draper to the graduat¬ 
ing class of 1383:—“To be faithful when the 
motive is not affection, to be self denying 
simply from a sense of duty, these are the con¬ 
ditions of your fidelity and devotion. Hap¬ 
pily these virtues are more natural to woman 
than to man, and this is the reason why nursing 
the sick is peculiarly a woman’s work. Apart 
from her instinctive tact and tenderness, it is 
her chief distinction to be faithful, and to 
endure.” mrs. w. c. g. 
GOOD EXAMPLE. 
To animate and exalt the hearts of the 
young, to instil noble sentiments, and to es¬ 
tablish principle and resolution, there is 
nothing so potent as good example. Wishing 
to make the gifts of the past Christmas benefi¬ 
cial in this way as well as pleasant to some 
young friends of 12 to 14, I looked over many 
of the offered publications of the season, but 
could not feel quite satisfied with any, finding 
much of the matter too puerile for my object 
aud much of it misleading, either by' corrupt 
dialect or slang, vitiating to literary' taste, or 
telling of desperate adventures instigated 
rather by boyish self-sufficiency, idleness, or 
foolhardiness than by high motive. Finally, 
seeing a new work, entitled “Noble Deeds of 
the Great aud Brave,” advertised in the Ru¬ 
ral, 1 examined a copy and found in it my 
ideal, only that it is rather too large for a 
boy or girl’s book—if there can be too much of 
a good thing. The descriptions are by a great 
variety of the most admired classic writers, 
and the examplesare classed as grand achieve¬ 
ments. heroic sacrifices, valiant exploits, 
knightly virtues, patriotism, integrity, mag¬ 
nanimity', devotion to duty, fidelity to home 
and kindred, and true friendship—a galaxy of 
virtues! No youth can read these accounts 
of what others have done without his eyes 
brimming, and the heart rising aud burning to 
imitate such grand examples of pure, unselfish 
good, or without a strong desire to learn more 
of the history and location of the veritable 
persons and countries uamed in preference to 
reading imaginary stories. w. 
SAVING LETTERS. 
A lad v who had the affairs of an aged aunt 
to set to rights after her death, had for one item 
a trunk full of old letters, closely packed aud 
tied in bundles, to assort and destroy, where 
they were of no importance. It was a very 
weary day’s work, and the savings were very 
few. Most of the correspondence was of no 
possible importance after the hour of its recep¬ 
tion was over, and might much better have 
been destroyed. Much trouble would have 
been saved to those who came after, and the 
possibilities of confidence which had been im¬ 
parted in writing, falling into the wrong 
hands, would have been much lessened. 
As a common thing it is weLl to look over 
letter packages every few months and destroy 
those that there is no use iu keeping. Business 
letters may suitably be filed away, aschauces 
and changes may make them of great value. 
By all means receipts should be strictly 
preserved in a place set apart for them, for 
many a time money has to be paid over just 
for w'ant. of such carefulness. 
Who has ever read the life of any distiu 
guished person in which the letters have been 
overhauled for the most private domestic gos¬ 
sip, without feeling that the most sacred confi¬ 
dences had been violated "in 'hauling over 
these letters* It seemed most honorable in 
the writer Charlotte Elizabeth to destroy such 
correspondence iu her possession, when she 
heard of the death of some one whose life 
would probably be written. She felt that to 
spread before the world what had been writ¬ 
ten for her eye alone was most dishonorable, 
and she wished to shut, the door to all impor¬ 
tunity. It may make very interesting read¬ 
ing. this re-hash of “life aurl letters,” but one 
cannot help thinking, “What would the help¬ 
less subjectsthemselves thick aboutit:" 
As a general rule, it is well to keep to our¬ 
selves letters meant for us alone, unless we 
are quite sure that it would be perfectly 
agreeable to the sender to have a third party 
read them. Think how it is with ourselves, 
and render unto all due benevolence. "Do as 
you would be done by” is a good motto here as 
every where else. olive. 
SELECTIONS FROM “GLEANINGS.” 
“Let us do our work iu faith. It will take 
care of itself. We need not be troubled about 
it. All that is great or good will live. If we 
deserve good it will come to us.” * * * 
“Such women as Modjeskaand Clara Morris 
are epic-poems, and dazzle by their brightness, 
emotion and pathos. They win applause from 
all, and for the moment move all hearts; but 
the wine is too strong for steady use. The 
lyric song of the housewife in her home du¬ 
ties, is better, richer, more wholesome. She 
wins the heart, pickets it all urouDd with love, 
keeping out wrong and keeping iu sweetness. 
Her lullaby is tbe song of uugels, and her pa¬ 
tient, mid-night watch like divine blessing. 
Each day she imprints her likeness where it 
will never fade out, but remains a charm 
against harm to husband and children. Her 
work is written in the Book of Life-Everlast¬ 
ing- and the page can never be blurred.” * * 
“Truth is immortal. Lies are inventions, 
and the patents will expire. A lie never,from 
repetition, becomes truth." * * * * * 
“Women shouldnot be satisfied with render¬ 
ing music, they should create it. Only men 
now compose. Women play, sing and read 
male productions.” * * * * * 
“Love must always be the main part of a 
great soul. A soul without love must be help¬ 
less and hopeless, for he who does uot melt into 
the great channel that flows on toward the 
Divine will miss the shining paths of life.” * 
“He is fortunate who in the wildest storms 
of life feels that he is being rocked in the cra¬ 
dle of Infinite love." * * * * * 
If God daintily fed me and carried me 
blind-foided over all rough aud dirty places, I 
should remain a weak aud helpless child. 1 am 
here for growth and T should not ask that the 
object of my beiug may become a disappoint- 
in an r, ^ ^ $ s(» 
“Adversity is a more judicious teacher than 
prosperity aud advances its pupils faster. 
Suffering alone can bring out the finest ele¬ 
ments of the soul. The body may be clothed 
by others but the soul fits its own garments." 
CORA J. spear. 
CORSETS. 
Warner Bros. —We have before us the il¬ 
lustrated catalogue of Warner Bros., 353 
Broadway, giving cuts and full descriptions 
of their corsets for adults aud children. We 
think if these are once tried, that all prejudice 
about the wearing of corsets will vanish, be¬ 
cause all made by Warner Bros, are so easy 
and comfortuble. 
ART PRINTS. 
Prang & Co.—It is with pleasure that we 
again call the attention of our readers to the 
Art Publishing House of Prang & Co., Boston. 
Their catalogue for Easter novelties is well 
worth an examination. One of their Easter 
satin prints, bears the initials of Miss F. 
Bridges, aud describes, a birds nest among the 
reeds and vines. It is printed upon white 
satin, padded aud perfumed, aud has a peb- 
I bled mount against a cross of white satin, as a 
back ground. It is trimmed with silk fringe, 
and has a cord and tassels for hanging, 
which makes a choice, between this style, and 
the easel back. Among tlie Easter cards are 
some of the most unique designs. The names 
of W. Hamilton Gibson, Walter Satterlee, 
Miss A. Hinds, F, 8. Mathews, are sufficient 
guarantee of their beauty. 
Mrs. Carrie D. T. Swift, Rochester. N. 
Y., lor 25 years suffered from hereditary 
rheumatism, many times being utterly help 
less, especially in warm weather. In July, 
1883, she used a few bottles of Warner’s Safe 
Rheumatic Cure, aud in January, 1885, said 
her restoration to health was as complete as 
miraculous. Cure permanent. Try it.— Adx. 
Domestic Ccotiomi) 
CONDUCTED BY EMIJ-Y MAPLE. 
KITCHEN TALKS. 
ANNIE L. JACK. 
“I don’t think there is anythiug people dis¬ 
agree about so much as salt,” I said the other 
morning in the kitchen, when some one said 
the buckwheat pancakes were a little short of 
that condiment. One person eats a dinner 
without requiring the salt-cellar at all; an¬ 
other covers the food over with this saline 
adjunct. "I wonder who first used it:” ques¬ 
tioned the Amateur Cook. “1 do not know,’ 1 
1 answered, “any further than the Homans 
are said to have been the first to manufacture 
it. [Rome was founded about 753 years be¬ 
fore Christ; but lung, long before that day 
salt had been made by the ancient Egyptians, 
and after them by the Phoenicians. Indeed, 
Pi.orcUanf0Usi gUvcrtftfittfl. 
For washing' the 
hair only the very 
best of soap and pure 
water should be used. 
The average soap 
contains too much free 
alkali, which draws 
the natural oil from 
the hair and scalp, 
and leaves the former 
harsh and lusterlcss, 
while it roughens the 
latter, causing scurf 
or dandruff. The pu¬ 
rity and mildness of 
the Ivory Soap gives 
it pre-eminence tor 
cleaning the hair and 
scalp. It contains no 
free alkali, so its use 
insures a clean and 
healthy head of hair 
of the luster aud soft¬ 
ness ol silk. 
free of charge. A full size cake of Ivory Soap will he 
sent to any one who can not get It of their grocer, n 
six two coat stamps, to puy postage, are sent to Procter 
A Uau'-hlu, Cincinnati. 1*1 ease mention this paper. 
