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190 PERMANENT INVALIDS.
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bro nin k e case hear s ou t t of of ten bro t k en berea rest and ved one hard d work ies , not wh so ich mpch ht of to a oug
of have this been kind share has , d just and reached lightened -us ,, but others such ? . are A , too of elanchol common the eastern y case to
according wid need ow descri burning to ption this , . can European Those plac who idl form y think wa of tch S with u the ttee horror , sacri thoug fice of some vic times tims
the chief difference between them is only that the sufferer is " I despa I have tched had little much rest sooner for these by the last orien three tal months mode of his proceeding h is . coug
so troublesome at night / ' says some poor delicate , wife , addingone for with he else a will fain do t take a and sing nothing dismal le thing from smile for , him " . hands " I " Fie but never upon mine sleep him , nor onstrate then by let day any ! " ,
you unless inwardl you happen y groan t o be repl y ; doctor but it , or is no t leas use t to rem " affliction woman , " as Sydney Smith calls the experienced , disengaged f
times lady , to of b trouble e found . But in mos sometimes t circles , the and husban usually d made is the sufferer oin . What sort of health and spirits will a friend of ours be left in
when lie loses t reuired his amiable him to wife , d w ho his has leisure for more in h than er darkened a dozen years sick-room p and q who is impatient spen of his passing an hour _else-r
where ? , because we Now have in the given all relations such above cases , of the the of evil health suffer is always ers injured could more by hire or nursing less the avoidable hel as those they _^
p it need is . a When totall the different poor lose matter their the heal nursing th from of the th same eir friends cause ,
m tha us t t b ecomes her be y heroism done by whi th c emselves h in ; the , or asses not done who can at all ; and for py
stances suitable help , is working but foll , y . We le of have useful known self-sacrifice some noble to the
insick . An among invalid of this peop classwho was nursed by her sister with great devotion for more than , thirty years , repeatedl but y
complained to us of this sister— " I don't know how 'tis , poor But Sara we h she cannot can't remember make me no er nice hearin little her puddings nor nothing gratitude . "
for as a poor matt Sarah er of . ' s course long and and faithfu this is l just services g the express . evil They any of were which taken we
rather complain than , thoug the h in general , invalids the wh famil o are y t cir oo cle nearl is to interested blame for in it y
the matter to be poor the sole judges , , either of the amount of service they ought to receive , or of the persons who ought to serve all
their them . notorious We venture benevolence to say too are , that to blame our medic here al . men Their _y with timel , y
interference might save many a nurse for while their opportu-
190 Permanent Invalids.
190 PERMANENT INVALIDS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/46/
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