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Miss Delia Dana, Grand-daughter of Poet Longfellow, Inspired Pes xh ghd meer 
by Dr. Grenfell Example, to Enter Hospital. 
Miss Delia F. Dana, daughter of 
Richard H. Dana of Cambridge and 
Manchester, and granddaughter of the 
poet Longfellow, one of last year’s at- 
tractive debutantes, has enrolled herself 
at the Children’s Hospital, Boston, in 
the training school for nurses, and has 
already gone through two months of pro- 
bationary work there. 
This change from the gay buzz of 
society doings to the care of toddlers in 
the white-painted hospital ward is not 
without precedent among young girls in 
society. Miss Anna Cabot, daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. William Brooks Cabot, 
who is preparing to be a trained nurse, 
has nearly finished her course at the 
Children’s Hospital. 
In spite of the hard work and seeming- 
ly long hours, though the nurses. in_ the 
training schools are on an eight-hour-a- 
day schedule, there is a human side to 
the work that repays the students who are 
in training. 
The care of children is quite differ- 
ent from that of adults, the nurses find. 
““In some ways very much pleasanter,”’ 
says Miss Dana, “‘particularly for those 
who love children. It isn’t so hard to 
amuse children and keep their mind 
away from themselves as it is older peo- 
ple. 
‘“Then, children never worry before 
operations. A part of our work in the 
probation period is regular duty in the 
hospital wards. Sometimes we play 
with a little girl or little boy just before 
they take them to the operating room. 
To them that day is just like any other 
day. Of course they do not realize any- 
thing about it; their minds are not filled 
with any details that frighten them, and, 
of course, they do not do any worrying. 
I have never been in an hospital for 
adults, but Isuppose that the worrying 
makes it much harder for the patients 
and for the nurses. 
““One of the difficulties, though, is 
the fact that you can’t reason with sick 
children. If they don’t want to take 
medicine, you can’t persuade them into 
it by telling them that it is for their good. 
They are not very much interested in 
what is good for them just at that time. 
**Tt is much harder for a little boy or 
girlto be sick than a grown person. 
They don’t seem to be able to bear their 
troubles; sometimes it is quite hard to 
help them.”’ 
Miss Dana has a great deal of enthu- 
siasm for her work. Just what she in- 
tends to do after completing her course 
at the hospital she is not prepared to say. 
It will probably be social work of some 
kind, she thinks. 
Though she has never talked with Dr. 
Wilfred Grenfell about her plans, it was 
his influence that prompted Miss Dana 
to become a nurse. She was invited by 
friends to New Haven to attenda Yale 
game, and inthe pa ty she met Dr. Gren- 
fell. He seemed sucha strong personal- 
ity, she said, and a man who had done 
so much good in the world that she be- 
gan to think about her own life. It was 
then that she decided to prepare herself 
for some work that would help those who 
were poor and suffering. 
It is not the easiest thing to go through, 
the long training necessary for a young 
woman who wishes to become a trained 
nurse. At the first there are the many 
questions to answer the white uniformed 
superintendent of nurses, one of the Sis- 
ters of St. Margaret, who have charge 
of the school. The candidate must have 
good health, must have good reason for 
choosing nursing as a profession, and 
must be willing to work. 
Approved by the superintendent the 
candidate then enters her term of proba- 
tionas a ‘‘pink’’ nurse. This is the 
color of the uniform worn by beginners. 
Not until she has completed her courses 
at Simmons College is she entitled to the 
blue uniform. 
Scrubbing floors is a part of the work 
that the beginner must expect, if she is 
to win her way through to the coveted 
dignity of a blue uniform. Bed-making 
is another art in which she must become 
proficient. She also learns how to band- 
age and dress wounds and how to apply 
bandages. Besides this there is the re- 
gular hospital duty; giving meals to the 
children, assisting the head nurses in 
charge of the ward. 
If the student weathers the two months 
of probation, and if the superintendent 
of nurses feeis that she is competent to 
go on, she then begins upon her four 
months of academic study at Simmons 
College. Here she studies anatomy, 
physiology, chemistry, bacteriolo gy, 
cooking and food values. After this 
follows the more advanced work in the 
hospitals, and the first experiences in the 
operating room. 
Not every applicant succeeds in reach- 
ing this stage in the training. Less than 
one-half of those received for probation 
are graduated. In 1906 33 students were 
received and eight graduated. In 1907 
22 were received and 14 graduated, and 
last year 26 were received and 10 grad- 
uated. — Boston Sunday Herald. 
J. Arthur Brooks and family, who 
have been at the Bullard cottage, at Old 
Neck, Manchester, the last summer, are 
leaving the first week in November. 
They have rented an estate in Milton 
for the winter. 
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Another autumn wedding takes place 
in Manchester tomorrow, that of Miss 
Emily Faithful Ames and Gerald A. 
Bramwell. Miss Ames is the daughter 
of the late Mr. and Mrs. Miner T. 
Ames of Chicago, and Mr. Bramwell is 
the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Arthur 
Bramwell of New York. The wedding 
will take place at noon at the Emmanuel 
Episcopal church, on Masconomo street. 
The Rev. Hugh Birckhead, rector of 
St. George’s church, New York city, 
will be the officiating clergyman. He 
will be assisted by the Rev. E. J. V. 
Huiginn of St. Peter’s church, Beverly. 
The best man will be Edward A. Taft 
of Boston. The ‘bride’s attendant will 
be a cousin, Mrs. Glenn Hall of 
Chicago. The ushers wil be S. Park- 
man Shaw, jr., a cousin, of Boston, 
William Kent, jr., of ‘Tuxedo Park, 
Thos. L Manson, jr., and Daniel W. 
Knowlton of New York. A reception 
will follow the ceremony at the home of — 
Mrs. John C. Howe and Mr. and Mrs. 
Walter Yates at West Manchester. The 
young couple will live on Lexington ave. 
New York. 
Mr. and Mrs. Richard S. Russell are 
to remain at Manchester until the first of 
November. They will live at their own 
house on Commonwealth ave., Boston, 
instead of in New York, as last year. 
Mrs. Russell Sturgis and family, who. 
spent most of last winter at their Man-- 
chester residence, are to be in Boston 
this winter. They have taken an apart- 
ment at the Hotel Hamilton, Clarendon 
street. ¥ 
Mr. and Mrs. Washington  B._ 
Thomas, and Miss Thomas, whose 
future home is to be in New York on 
account of Mr. Thomas’s business in- 
terests, are for the coming season to be 
at 601 Fifth ave.. Their Boston house, — 
on Gloucester street, has been leased to — 
Walter Denegre and family, who of late - 
years have divided their winters between 
Manchester, New York and Washing-_ 
ton. 
A pair of valuable horses owned by 
Mrs. H: G. Curry, attached to am 
carriage, ran away yesterday morning on 
the West Gloucester road, throwing out 
the coachman, a new man, who had just 
come to work for Mrs. Curry Harry 
Curry, a son of Mrs. Curry, who was in 
the carriage at the time was also thrown 
out, but was not injured. The coach- — 
man escaped with a severe shaking up. 
One of his arms was thrown out of joint. 
The carriage was over-turned. . The © 
horses left the road and became mired | 
ina bog. They were badly cut »p as . 
result of the mix-up and Dr. Riordan © 
had to be called to doctor their wounds. 4 
