Show u J Wh What a t Florence Fl orence s itin IH m 11 S ilY BY HY Nightingale Did 1 Sen er Jut Jit London on Ui c. c Ti S. Tin ml r of ur All MIr i- i I It tl was WaH I It Im In hi I J IJ b by tin till imi- imi Nent N- N ent emit king to bi lIl u a dist distinction upon Pon tImos' tImos eminent t I In Iii a un n y J. J pui tint up to within a few ftc da II days dathe j time the nu Vert Lord Lord W Wolseley oid J Kitchener Lord Kelvin I lord ord J L Lord Sir William HugL Hug Hug- gins Sir J J. J p p. Hooker John Morley Jame James s. Uree Admiral Seymour A Ad- Ad 1 mimi usher I Field lelli Marshal 1 Sir George White Sir L L. Alma Imn Tadema T Hunt Hunt George Gorge Meredith the the- Earl of Cromar time the Marquess the and Admiral Togo wn till this list death has ha Just lust removed tI I Lord and auth to It tips the king tug has added Florence Nigh Nightingale II ng T The yours years IU o ha accustomed as us to I th tillS tact fuel that no tie women ho ha hitherto r been lIcen considered worth worthy or any dl- dl 1 of sort no matter how t hi great t II uti I achievements but II j has halt I. I remained tot for 1 King Edward I to lo break brenk 1 through this thle worn time-worn a attitude u lie and aDd to his bItS credit to h tow v th the Order of Merit upon Miss 11 Florence Nightingale I 1 the heroine of in th thin Crimean War ar and with Ao no could this new dent Ita hare hu C been more appropriately appropriate L eel lM Ini Not ut 1 u U. U The TIle story tory of or MI MISs s Nightingale Is III known mown to CT C every ery land reached by br civil civil- but hut It muy 1111 not be bC generally known cnown that like all pioneers cre when she ehe entered on her course of action it vali tas us much misunderstood and as II r much maligned as n. that thal of or er c every ru- ru former rh war W was S against f. f he her hiet the of her day was 1 tier her and tho the difficulty of ot her iov t. t work can caim scarcely be he Imagined Imag-Illet Not a n woman nurse had hall o over o er b been en t employed In lii a military hospital Time The clab of who had hud at URiC one time noted a as nurses was Wars so 80 ba bad that thai time tIe war wat office had decided tu to send nun non i I nut ut Ut I 1 to tin till t ll l After Cl time the butt ball k It- of or Alma inma condition of oC f the wounded sol sol- ol- ol iii ilcEs rs was yueh uch that till the whole country countr all us and It ut LS as at that thul I that thul Florence Nightingale came Caine forward rd and volunteered 01 un to organize or organize or- or nurses and to start for the scat rent of or war vaE I After much difficulty time the war al office accepted her services und and she sho was officially of- of of 01 installed us Uti sup superintendent of the nursing throughout hout au all the military hospitals in the LaSt East She arrived etl at al on thu Ros- Ros pharous the day before the tho battle buttle of Ink and on the following night eh shiploads of 01 wounded soldiers were tre sent to h her r in iii a condition of 01 Indescribable able misery anti and Suffering The hos- hos hu lacked hacked everything that could make it II worth worthy 0 or of such a 0 name The Thc wounded wore Vero laid In rows down lown the thc long iong corridor and during those times Florence Nightingale stood four hours receiving the tho wounded di directing di- di reeling her nurses and und dealing with r the lie supplies 0 iou JOnt belief The Thit unsanitary conditions were un un- un- un imaginable 1 Even F. t during such a 0 crisis I th the voik of at Ml Miss NI Nightingale was lois mis construed and ridiculed lampoons wore written and the lowest motives mothes yer were attributed to her tier work Thon Then tho the tide turned and as success attended d her public opinion was loud loue In tier lieI favor 10 BU and amid on her Imer return from frum the Crimea she sio the time heroin of or bl her time Her mun was on very every ery ones one's II lips PI her picture In every e shop window her work the timo ad ad- of or all Florence Nightingale was waH not contented with one cue pT grat aLt t effort In lii England she began to plead for efficient effi cHI clout nursing She begged women of or education und nod opportunity op to devote themselves to it H and she aroused the Con tin mil on oh Page b ud md LI II What What Florence Florenc Nightingale Nightingale Night Night- II IIII I II Did Old i II n Continued from Page Pase 1 2nd Section opposition of or the leader of or society Lady h by the tho attitude e which she sho thus took Tho great grent la lad lady said that tho tIme Nightingale fund was humbug hum hum- bug The Tho nurses In the tho hospitals said al thIs tills society leader are aro very er good now Perhaps thc they do di drink ink a Tittle ittle but 2 so 0 do the goo good ladies ladies' nurses nurse and nothing can cami be better than they Pour Poor people it must be hc so 50 tiresome sitting up UI all nl night ht and amid if the they drink a t. t little too much thc they ar are are- turned out and others can call be got The TIme t typical h hospital spital nurse In Miss Nightingales Nightingale's du day was of the time I Gamp order the coarsest st and most mOHl un untrained un- un I trained women were usually engaged and anil their habitual drunkenness had become proverbial while dirt and disorder dis dis- order was tho the portion of ot every hospi tat tal ward Indeed d. d so no bad hall had tho time character of or the nurl nurse c b become como that no decent woman caroll to enter tho the pro- pro f. f fission slon and amid if Sf shin Him mild did l It was Wl generally generally gener gener- ally alba the signal that she hu Im had bad lost Jost her character r Wonderful Work Vork ork It was sus Mist Miss NI Nightingale who changed chanS Hl all this it w was us Miss liss Nightingale I ren rendered cred the nursing profession one of the tho most honorable in which a woman cnn can enlist and ana who placed the time trained nurse side b by sIde with th the medical man Today the who ho has ju Just t receIved re- re time the Order of Merit whose e services services ser ser- vices have ha been reco cognized re-cognized and whose work life has made matlo history lives III In a little house close to 10 Hyde Pan Pail She Sue Is in her I eighty eighth year and und has las not miot left leU tIme the house for fOI 1 12 years ealS Tho The sort soft contour of pr the time face and the quiet peaceful brow still remain but she hc has Imas abated pone hOne of or her Interest In the nurses' nurses career and It must be lie to her a wonderful comfort as aa her hor life lIe hero here softly closes to know that slit shy has been able to transform the hospitals hospi hospi- In all civilized cl lands and has brought ht alleviation from suffering and restoration to health to tens of or thousands I ands of or her lier fellow CUD creatures u.- u. |