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THE NEEDLEWOMAN AS NUBSE. 53
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stringent , and precluded her admission . The Principal was , howeverso pleased with Mrs . T 's manner and appearance , that
, she at once took her on as a supernumerary out-nurse , recommending her to a family who were wanting such a person . Mrs . T
came back to me overjoyed ; never was an opening to independence hailed with greater delight , and her protestations of gratitude
were profuse . She really cried with unfeigned emotion . On Inquiry , I found , however , that she could not go to the situation
unless a change of clothes were procured for her , and I at once gave her what I could collect from a store I have for such cases ,
and also lent her 10 s . to purchase a few more necessaries . The wages she was to receive for her nursing were 10 s . per week ,
, with board , & c . Wealth compared to her late earnings . Mrs . T went , and I received a note from her after a few
days , to say she was very comfortable , that her patient was improvingand that the doctor said she was exactly the kind of person he
wanted , . She added she would come , and return , as soon as she could , the money I had Tent her . At the end of a fortnight she
_apxoeared , looking much better in health , and in excellent spirits . She brought with her the half-sovereign and proudly repaid my
loan , preferring , she said , to be clear of debt before she bought herself anything else . I took the moneyfeeling that her self-respect
, would be far enhanced if I did , offering however to lend her more at any time she needed . Mrs . T has never wanted to borrow
of me since , for with that first nursing post her fortunes have turned . She is now an independent woman , and likely to continue
so . I cannot quite remember who procured her her next situation ; it was either the doctor who was attending the first lady whose
servant ' s situation she applied for , or the medical man at the house she went as nurse . This second invalid , strange to say , was suffering
from much such a malady as her poor husband , though in a less aggravated form , and the doctor said , that by continual friction
and by following out other remedies , there was just hope that he . miht partially recover . The remedies and the peculiar mode of
friction g were the same as had been ordered her own husband-With a practised hand and interested heart , Mrs . T applied
herself to the task of cure . _TJhe gentleman gradually got better . His wife , who idolized him , could not be grateful enough to the
doctor , to whom she naturally attributed the change ; and as on one occasion she poured out her thanks in the presence of Mrs . T 9
" You have not me to thank , ma'am , " said the medical man , " but your nurse ; nineteen out of twenty would not have done what she
has for your husband . She thoroughly understands the prox > er mode of treatment ; and if the same can be continued , in all probability
you will owe your husband ' s recovery to her . " Cheering words to fall on the nurse ' s ear . Their result was increased attention to Mrs .
tw T- o pre ' s v comfort iously , in a wretched hundred little state ways of want . From , she n being ow , a n month d herse lf
The Needlewoman As Nubse. 53
THE NEEDLEWOMAN AS NUBSE . 53
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page 53, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/53/
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