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Show SET FORTH HIS APPRECIATION. Captain's Naive Testimony to the Worth of His Nurse. Nurses In training have many hardships hard-ships to bear, but perhaps none is worse than having to appear cheerful under all conditions. A sense of humor is perhaps as great an asset as a nurse can have, for it will help her over many a difficulty. The daughter of a wealthy man up state became Imbued with the desire to know how to earn her own living, and to that end she entered one of the large city hospitals as a nurse, says the New York Press, The work was to her liking, and. as she looked on the bright side of everything, she was generally gen-erally In a happy frame of mind. Her particular "pet" was an old and Illiterate Illit-erate sea captain, who was in the-.sur-glcal ward with a broken arm which would not knit He was a cheerful old fellow, and his droll remarks gained for him the good will of everybody. every-body. One day when the nurse had paid him some little attention, he said with an appreciative smile: "Miss L. Is the best waitress I ever had!" |