Show kathleen norris says no shortage of jobs for foi women of 50 bell syndicate deturi re turi 0 ade 0 0 1 6 6 a 0 X 1 44 4 0 1 giff div your iree fres every week to the sick ol of the neighborhood or to your hospital kitchen and not have I 1 to 0 ask again far the right to do tome thins shins for the boys by KATHLEEN NORRIS HIS article Is written for T THIS women of 50 years land and more who have some time to spare cannot enter upon defense jobs with regular and difficult hours and yet are passionately anxious to do something to help our country in her hour of need and bring nearer the glorious hour of a good and honest peace such women speak to me and write to me every day I 1 am never in any group but what they approach me my daughter is working in a machine plant and the boy la is in uniform but what can I 1 do I 1 must do they say well ill tell you one thing that you can do a thing that embraces a thousand others you can help our woefully small and insufficient army of doctors and nurses we have not now gohd wo we are going to feel a dangerous shortage later on yu can do what the writer of this article hopes to do follow a red bed cross primary training by a special course in midwifery learn to handle women through normal confinements land and welcome new babies into this var war clouded world for tho the young yog mothers go right on having them god bless them and that work must be done babies no nurses in one western town whose normal staff was 17 doctors four are left the obstetrician among these told me that ho he had listed among ward clinic and private patients exactly babies who are due before april asked about nurses he said there are rd NO nurses nurse sill 1 and he spoke with considerable considerable feeling about families who keep one nurse or even two for routine chronic invalid care that might be handled hat idled easily by the idle women of the family it ought to be stopped an anoa I 1 belleve believe it will he be said eaid only a few days later I 1 chanced to look on a hospital visit into one of those large clean pan pantries trieb that hospitals have on every floor sink cabinets gas stove hoppers and so on it was a shocking sight trays pans basins tumbled linen plied piled dishes were everywhere the nurse who hashed flashed in and out again was perspiring her face on a very hot day was the color of wax but she smiled gallantly as she said last year this time we had 70 less jess pa and 38 30 nuri auries ies now behave we have 18 15 nurses for the whole crowal well I 1 dont know that ill ever qualify asa as licensed midwife but I 1 right then and there that until i that pantry looked very differ ent I 1 bad a war job and in a clean apron with a box of soap flakes and a mop I 1 came back a low few minutes later it takes study and skill to deliver babies but the woman who washes dishes and assorts asserts sheets and sterilizes bandages frees a graduate nurse from that work and ras nas her bar place too in the tha great war story my aly reward that day was to feel many a young yog strong arpi arp go about me for a second while many a grateful vo voice ice said in ro m ear youre an angell and nobody could ask more genuine happiness than that health an ail obligation give your free afternoons every week to the sick of your neighborhood or to your hospital kitchen and not have to ask again for or the right to do something anything for or our bayal boyal get in touch with your gour doctor and hell give you a list of patients who merely need beds made or soup heated and do what you can to keep your own own home people well u 4 dont tolerate any of the minor Ws ills that ITS THERE I 1 if I 1 you have not yet found a war tva r job you looked hard enough you may not find I 1 it t in a fac factory tory if you y OU have no special skill you may not find it in the armed forces but you will find it in a hospital ital where there aro are floors to go bo scrubbed and linens to be sorted you will ivill find it in the home of a sick friend you will perhaps find it right in your our own home if you have hava been een relying on someone elso else to do a dozen little things you could do for youri yourself elf and finding it says kathleen norris ris is ts your job lead to serious trouble not this war winter health is an obligation that we owe america while her youth and power and glory are committed to this tremendous adventure and its mother who holds that responsibility at home so if dad Is making too 1 long ong and tiring a shift of cars and trains and busses to get hoine home see whether you cant find the simplest the plainest plaine ct little quarters nearer his work it if the working girls come in aeiry weary and cold have a cup of hot soup or malted milk ready this idea of a warming drink before a hearty meal Is one that dietitians everywhere ap prove to get very tired and huril hun gry often means that a hearty meal get digested before bedtime by the cold and weary stomach the hot drink the comfortable chair and pleasant news all help to make dinnertime a success if cold feet and backache and headache and nerves and restless ness at night are chronic they sire are apt to have hava one cause constipation lack of exercise long sedentary hours in the factory or office and bunches of pastry strong tea or coffee sweets accentuate it mother can do a lot about that with the introduction tro of raw vegetables at dinner salads of lettuce chopped carrots appler cabbage spinach and by serving a dark rough bran bread and make desserts laxative prunes apples figs oranges and grapefruit can be served in about ways all helpful hot tomato juice hot prune and apple pure eare medicinal enough as are ginger bread ard ginger molasses cookies to cur cure e many of these cases of chills and aches and nerves and to hold of kofl the goldsand colds cold sand and bronchial and laryngeal conditions to which they lead get your family bailly through this I 1 winter without a night of lost sleep or a sneeze and you will be doing your share of the big job no shortage of jobs if the youngsters are tired and nervous enough to complain if they demand starches hes and gravies and heavy meats take aake them into your confidence explain that you are meeting all sorts of war conditions shortage of fuel difficult transportation higher I 1 prices the need tor for closer management of An finances ances beet beef scarce bananas gono gon domestic help unprocurable and insist that they operate cooperate co to the extent of remembering overshoes drafts fati gue and by eating what M mother other tells them tol oh ob there going to be any shortage of jobs for us older women as an the war months go on the only question la is whether we are going to be willing enough and humble enough to step into them and I 1 think we are I 1 think we presently will have an army of mothers and wives quietly filling the menial and minor positions that free the younger and more experienced women for actual war 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