Show Penalty of Sickness Falls On I Healthy I I They Sit and Listen Liften A A AND ND D how are all your our folks folka f now now-It now It was an aged woman a former nurse in waiting ft r wealthy families who was t talkIng She made a II monthly bi-monthly bi visit to our home We Wo are all well thanks my mother said There s so much sickness the visitor went on You can see measles scarlet fever and pox chicken pox signs wherever you go And then there are a lot of mumps diphtheria pneumonia and whoop whoop- whoopIng whooping ing lug cough Oh the poor people What will they do The visitor seemed to have a community sickness Inferiority It was the one thing which was con con- constantly constantly constantly on her mind nind We e conceded ed ed that shed she'd lecture to us on the terrible conditions every every time Ume she came on a social ocIal call call At about this time my two younger brothers would b begin gln to migrate from the room And I always Imagined one of them say say- saIng saying say saying ing to the other as they gained a 0 sate safe dl distance tance from rota our visitor Yes and we have so many caSC cases of chilblains hangnails and dl- dl n d druff What hat are the poor people going to do Terribly Inconsiderate Inconsiderate erate crate they were She I think is quite as bad as the woman who Is always telling about the size size of the incision In her last operation the pain which she suffered the few people who came to see her the little atten atten- attention attention attention tion she received from front the nurses nurses- nurses poor thing the nurses didn't real real- realIze realize real realize ize she was suffering so 60 much OX ON CHANCE There are tens nurses at the Dee Dec hospital who have to listen to such day In Inand inand Inand and day out Ask n a nurse how ow many patients of this nature she rec receives Its It's like taking a cross cross- cross section of human life lite on the I streets and md asking how many ot of Irritable natures are in the group youve you've selected she I says Ill have nice patients for tor a only to be followed by sue sue- sue suc successive patients of disagreeable dispositions Men are generally more consid consid- considerate considerate erate crate of a woman than women ore are of a woman The sex cr isn't such a determining factor as individual dispositions If It they accustomed to being waited waite upon ot at home nurses will likely find them irritable and ond Inconsiderate In Ina ina Ina a hospital bed And then shell she'll likely tell you OU that there Is some some- something something thing fascinating about a a nurses nurse's ill life We have hove few here who dont don't treat nurses respectfully one nurse said Outside it tf f dispositions and sexes there Is one other factor which Is generally an indicator tor of the type of patient Age Any nurse IlI tell tell you that young men between the Ages agea of 16 and 20 are quite likely to be very bashful bashful In ask ask- askIng asking ask asking ing for some of ot their personal needs They'll also tell tell tell you that aged those men men those in their second youth one nurse said are said are the most like likely to ask a a nurse to sit sit down and ond talk to them or else to lead them a 0 stor story Im lonesome grandpa says Bays Attaches at the Dee relate that there have been several nurse nurses who 1 married Jl men whom they served as pat patients at the hospital Just the theother theother i other day a young- young said I wo were talking about such oc- oc occurrence occurrences oc occurrences currence In a confer conference nce of the doctors Nurses orent arent aren't supposed to flirt or to give their patients a 0 chance to flirt with them Nurses Nurse more gifts from maternity cases eases than from any other single type the Dec Dee nurses say pay Women them themas give glye as many gifts as men inert In the general run of cases so they said IN GREAT CHEAT phone phona queries at the hospital Is abou one ot of o the most excruciating of tasks it was E- E c ct I t Its learned learned A little after 8 S o'clock at night just after the last of the evening guests had been asked to leave the hospital a 0 man tele- tele telephoned telephoned tele telephoned phoned My wife is up in a room on the third floor visiting with a 0 friend Will 11 lou sou ou please rush up and tell her to come home the baby Is crying How long did di the patient sleep how long did he lie awake how big hov-big big was the Incision how does It look 1 look what did they take out what did they leave In how v big bis is isi I Ithe i the baby does docs it look like Its mother or father Is it good goo look look look- lookIng ook- ook ing etc are among the many questions asked by the curious friends and public 00 |