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Show NURSES' LIVES UNROMANTIC. Seldom Marry Physicians or Patients They Have Attended. It is generally supposed that thcro is a good deal of romance about tho life of a professional nurso and that largo hospitals aro matrimonial bureaus whoro men and women fall In lovo with Incessant regularity. Exactly Ex-actly tho opposlto is true. Nurses, as a rulo, do not marry men whom they have. nursed as patients, nor do they select for husbands tho physicians with whom they come In contact in a professional way. In tho last year and a half but one engagement among tho nurses at tho Chicago hospital lias been announced, and tho incident wns so unusual that it created no end of comment. Tho affair was, In fact, an oxtremo novelty, although tho femalo attaches of tho institution arc unusually good looking. "This proves that nurses do not lead tho romantic lives that they aro credited with by the outsldo world," Bald a physician. "I havo frequently heard it said that men who had been seriously ill otten man led tho trained nurses who had taken care of them. This Is nonsense. I have employed hundreds of those women nurses In tho course of my practice, and havo yet to hear of a match resulting from ono of them. As n general thing tho patient takes an aversion to tho nurse who has cared tor him, and tho better sno has looked after him and tho moro strictly sho has enforced tho doctor's instructions tho less bo has cared for her. "Physicians sometimes fnll In lovo with tho nurses they meet In their practice, but such affairs, instead of being common, nio rare. If any girl enters tho profession with tho Idea of capturing a husband sho is apt to dad herself sadly sold." |