Show TO PROVIDE NURSES it to is doubtful whether the people of this city properly appreciate the nature and purpose of a meeting of women that was held last saturday in the fourteenth ward assembly hall looking to the organization of a class of the sex to receive instruction in nursing but buit the movement is so important por tant and so thoroughly practical and sensible in its philanthropy that it ought to receive the most cordial moral support of the public together wath such pecuniary ald aid as may be necessary the movement is under the auspices of the stake board of the relief society and the suggest suggestion Lon is made that the class be formed by choosing tour four members from each ward in the stake the candidates to be from eighteen to forty years yeats of age there will be n no 0 entrance examination and the news understands that no tuition tree free will be charged the object seems to be to spread among the women who are willing to receive it useful knowledge concerning the nursing of the sick without money and without price that life may be saved and suffering relieved particularly among the poor dr margaret roberts has kindly volunteered to act as instructor of the class it will be the alm aim to impart to it a knowledge of simple household practice rather than advanced scientific instruction and tomake to make 1 ts its members member 0 nurses rather than or surgeons the lecture hall of the latter day saints business college has been tendered to and will be used by the class the method of instruction will he be by lectures three of which will be given each week to the cla class a besides one public lecture for the benefit of young mothers the lecture course will cover from six to eight months I 1 on saturday next the dinst the members and stake board of the re bea society with dr roberts in attendance will meet in the lecture room in the templeton A leton building for the purpose of further perfecting plans for the class and there Is hs every reason to believe that the project will be carried to complete fruition the news sincerely hopes that this will be the result cases of at sickness are constant ly happening especially among the poor in which there exists an urgent demand for the aid of nurses not infrequently the suffering and pecuniary loss are greatly augmented because of this lack and many lives would be saved were it properly supplied up this movement looking to the crea tion of a supply of trained nurses in all the wards of this stake is a most beneficent one and again the newa heartily wishes it the fullest measure of success |