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164 AMEBICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS,
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For It Is Some Certain Time That A More ...
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with If the a colored few cheers people for had the taken much hands abused and danced gentleman around who tne has _AVhite immortalizec House .
himself by one just act , no President could have had a finer levee , or one tc be prouder of .
THE END . were " While passing oneself these within to si be ghts , and and I sounds was in hosp learning were ital . is going that to be one on a without of patient the best , there . , curious methods ; for scenes then oi
kindness fitting only can touch one wholl and y win a realiz nurs how e e what much a the or men little suffe we r are and to sig those h for about , how us acts , and of
our for the hands first and time may reall have y see , to that pay in dearl coming y for there a brief we experience have taken . our Every lives one in
was nurses to fill very took my kind , wood many ; the -box steps attendants , or with bring those of message my tired ward s feet and often of presents theirs came , and up from to several report my boys came progress . each The ,
left evening doctors doses pai to without d chat daily over visits names my , tapped and fire went and at my make away lungs leaving things to see cosy me if pneumonia as for ignorant the ni was and ght within . much The ,
long peop more le fig uncomfortable looked ht with odd weariness , queer than , fancies when and pain th haunted ey . came Letters the . room Hours from , and home began the grew to nig get hts anxious confused were , one the _,,
doctors lifted their eyebrows and nodded ominously , friends said ' Don't stay , * and an internal rebellion seconded the advice ; but the three defe months at before were I -
not outand the idea of giving up so soon was proclaiming a morning was fairl , y routed headed , so to gentleman all ' Don't rose stays like ' I a opposed welcome ' 1 host wills on , ' till my one hearth fine
to and my at the boys a grey sig , and ht - of when him lie my sai resolution d ' Come melted home , ' I away answere , my g heart d , ' Yes turned , father traitor , ' and , .
so " ended I never my sh career all regret as an the arm goin y nurse g , thoug . h a sharp tussle with typ for hoid , ten
live dollars and and lear a n wi much g are all in the a month visible ; a results good of fit the of illness experiment proves ; the one value may of '" healthreal danger tries one ' s mettle , and self-sacrifice sweetens character .
it going ! Let and no throug , this one is who h one any sincerel which fear , for y can desires the not worth be to forgotten hel of p life the . lies work All in th the on at experiences is in best this and way th bravest , at delay fill
humblest in a , hosp the ital hearts of is a of rough men ils there and school women in , its proportion lessons comes are out to in both his scenes faithfulness stern like and these salutary learns , and , a and thoug deeper the h
faith in God and pup in himself , . Ifor onewould return to-morrow , , on the * up profit again I and got take out another of that month ' princip compensate , le , if I coul , s d , for for all the after amount of p and leasure though and
a coul sadl d y not womanish lay my h , feeling ead on , the I tak altar e some of my satisfaction country , I in hav the pangs when e my thoug hair ; she ht , sacrificed and , that that if I
is of onl more y the ital th ends an experiences handsome , of her ring Helen with lets on the did his for regret urn her . Therefore that dead they husban I were close d , not this better little chapter wortli
recording hosp , and add the poetical gem with which I console myself for the untimely demise of * Nurse Periwinkle . ' "
" . A With Oh nd lay car a her v m arble t in hereon a stone little a gruel to pit cover , spoon it ; ¦
To show a ' miss' has died too soon , . " M . D . Conway ,
164 Amebican Women And Hospitals,
164 AMEBICAN WOMEN AND HOSPITALS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 2, 1864, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02051864/page/20/
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