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Show Too III to Be Nursed. (Indianapolis Star.) "The late Bishop Fitzgerald," said a St. Louis man, "once presided at this season of the year at the graduating exercises of a class of nurses. He told the young women a story that pleased them mightily. "He said that during our war with Spain a certain hospital had a corps of nurses of exceptional beauty just such a corps, in fact, as the young ladies ranged before him would have made. "But it was whispered that these fair nurses were inclined a little to frivolity, frivol-ity, inclined a little to flirt with the ailing young soldiers in their charge. "Now when a soldier felt that he was on the mend, a flirtation -with a pretty nurse was delightful, but when his wounds were troublesi nic, then gallantry gal-lantry was a thing that he was hardly up to. "And Indeed it was said that sometimes some-times a pretty nurse in this hospital j would come to a favorite soldier andi find-him lying with closed eyes, as if! asleep on his cot, and this note pinned on the counterpane: " 'Too ill to be nursed today. John Smith. " |
