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Show i LIFE OF A TRAINED NURSE. Mauy DulifH I'uit Iu Hit- l-t of tho Sclf- SjK-rlii.-iiijr Women. The ninnlu r of hooks, with their big. iitipronoiuicealile names which nurses ' in training have to ;4uily frighten away all rattlebrained applie.:ni:-. j leaving only the studious. dcKrmincd ' and reliable, says Donahue's Magazine. ! Heroines they are, every out' of them I who linishes the coarse, as anyone I must see who has lived among them ! ami watched them through each bn-y day. dressing wounds, bandaging aid making bandages and rollers and linings lin-ings of splints, cooking and serving delicacies, dressing the. newly b mi and preparing the dead for burial and malting the rounds with physicians and surgeons, from whom thjy receive their practical training. In addition to these few duties mentioned out of the thousand ami one that will suggest themselves, they nuad atlend lectures, j recitations anil demonstrations, ami prepare for their own exam i nations, which in some schools occur each month, but generally every thre. mouths. Kvcn from this brief showing, show-ing, it will be seen the life of a trained nurse is a ceaselessly busy one, helpful and truly noble, but in no way a sinecure. sine-cure. No one but the tu il ly educated and cultivated should enter the profession, pro-fession, since nurses sliould have t htv e ijua li ilea t ions iu'itc as much as tlie mechanical skill in order to render them agreeable to the class of people who commonly employ nurses. And none but the patient and self-sacri-iieing need enter the profession ex-peel ex-peel ing to rise to the rank of a Florence Nightingale; at least, thai is the conclusion of one who has lived with 1 hem, studied their life ami I proiitcd liy their training, |