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Show High Honor For a French Nurse. There is probably no honor in Enropa more esteemed or which is granted to more deserving people than the ribbon of the Legion of Honor of France. Its possession almost always implies heroism, hero-ism, patriotism, self sacrifice, intellectual intellec-tual power 'or some quality or group of qualities to which we all look up. It has just been awarded to Sister Agnes, the head of a nursing institution at Brest, the famous naval headquarters of the French republic. Sister Agnes is a nun who has devoted all of her religious career to nursing the sick and wounded, and more especially those of the Frenoh navy, that came to her port. She possesses pos-sesses remarkable professional and rued-ical rued-ical skill and is said to have saved hun dreds of lives by her tireless exertion Paris letter. |