Show Knel lili dames to lie practical in alie sickroom two or tareo years ago prince and princess of wales distributed badges and prizes to a largo number of professional nurses and afterward entertained them royally at marlborough house it was expected that fashionable dames would show their appreciation of tho royal example by taking up nursing as a recreation but little was done until a few months ago when the national health society opened classes for the benefit of tho aristocracy at which something is taught than a coquettish arrangement of caps and aprons tho idea is to teach ladies the value of good nursing and enable them to learn something about fit food for invalids and how to civo first assistance to the injured in all of which it seems duchesses countesses and the like aro lamentably ment ably deficient the duchess of bedford is particularly active in the work she lias placed her fine house in belgrave square at the disposal of tho lectures on every wednesday during the winter season and as alie course includes an afternoon tea the attendance is expected to bo large the proceedings should certainly be interesting as it is announced that each lecture will bo practically illustrated with a patient bedding etc the pioneer among the aristocracy of nursing and sanitation was lady brooke who with her husband enjoys the particular friendship of the prince of wales her ladyship has for years been accustomed to keep a sharp oyo on the water supply and sanitary arrangements of the villages on her estates in the counties of warwick and often to tho deep disgust of tho cottagers who claimed the inherent right of a briton to please himself ia such matters and who objected strongly to being coerced into cleanliness on pain of eviction puritanical people have sometimes said hard things of lady brooke it is right that credit should be given her in this matter london letter |