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Show THE NURSE, EXPERIENCE. I The older writers Shapospcare among them II had a very small estimate of nurses. They didn't know tho trained nurso of today, any moro than thoir army commanders knew sanitation. And 1 H thoy spoke of Experience as a nurse-1 "tho dirt j nurse, Experience," in ono instance. , H And oven with the bettor knowledge of these H later days, tho significance of tho allusion holds j good. After all, experience is a nurse a sort of H follower up, an agency to remind one now and .: again; a sorvitor to keep the cloaks and cookies t f'H from being scattered in tho way; a menial to put ono properly lo bed. Tho big man scorns ex- j ( porionce. Ho makes it. ,Ho rebukes and confutes j 'H it. Ho cuts, his own swath, and achieves the im- ' H possible. tfoii can prove on paper that ho will fail. But ho doesn't fail in spito of experience. ' Ho doosn't know what he can't do, and as a con- sequence he does the impossible. H Don't bo too much of a slave lo tho warnings ' of experience. Don't tremble because you have ' none. You aro bigger than it is. You are moro important. You, and not oxporienco, aro to no considered. You know what you want to do, what B you must do to fulfill your mission, to content H tho craving of your soul. Go ahead and do it. H M' ' ') tributary streams swell your river. Make H th winds turn youjL' mill. Make the seasons your 1 servants, and tho elements your handmaidens. ' MH Why, if Edison had waited for experience, wo 1 still would bo wanting tho telephone. If Stephen- 1 son had waited for the nurso Experience to sug- M gost, to warn, to modify, wcwould bo needing tho M steam engino today. Experience didn't help the M Wright brothers with their flying maclimcs, nor M 11. E. Olds with the automobile. Progrt-d means JM emancipation. Advance means new roads. Ex- M porionce sits on the sign posts whore highways fM cross. Originality opens the roads before that H nurse dreams of either thoir possibility or their H neod. M The big man and tho big woman go ahead. H Whon all the chances have been tried out, the H bad abandoned, tho good approved then comes H the nurse experience. H Don't wait for her. Go on. H |