Show AMUSING HOSPITAL SITUATION an amusing situation has developed in british hospitals as a result of the large number of young women who have taken to nursing wounded soldiers in a way more sentimental than practical too sick to be nursed today Is said to have been a placard placed over the bed of a soldier wounded in the south african campaign and something of the sort seems to be needed now the trained nurses protest that young women nomen of means and social influence who have swarmed into the hospitals do more harm than good by fussing over patients the matter matte r has been brought officially to the war office by the organized trained nurl nurses es who number about one trained nurse said that it if lord kitchener had called tor for nurses instead of men for military duty he would have had that number the next morning in view of 0 the fact that many trained nurses are quite as aa pretty as the volunteers and are also much more competent a wounded soldier Is not to bo be blamed lor for desiring one who iho is useful as well as ornamental says birmingham age herald lord knutsford Knut stord stated in a letter to the london times that untrained nurses would be more acceptable it if they would be photographed less would wear their uniforms more modestly would talk less in public about about their patients and would not be quite so aggressive there Is no language so beautiful as our own oin english tongue when nhen it is spoken beautifully it is a wonderful possession but like many other things which we have always had we und underestimate er it and abuse abubo it until it Is depreciated prec precia ted one of the chief ways in which we mistreat our language is in over accenting our words foreigners are always quick to notice this they find it hard to understand us because we e bring out the one syllable that Is a accented and slur all the others As they say we bang out the accent but care nothing about the rest of the word by this fault of which nearly all americans are guilty the language is robbed of its harmonious flow as aa well as of intelligibility it Is always noticeable that persons of most culture most distinctly and this is a mark of breeding that everyone can try tor for to speak clearly giving each word its correct value indicates a certain amount oc lot knowledge while the opposite way of speech is often an all index of if slovenly habits of thought it if not illiteracy it is extraordinary hw how ul unending leudiS are arc the energies ot of men and N women omen in the seeking of occasion to organize societies cie ties it Is a dull day when hen there theme is no new league or association added to the list of those that think they have a useful mission to perform in the world says chicago Ev evening erting post one of the latest and most ho hopeless veless we should thinkie think thin kIs is the latin society just incorporated in new york to introduce methods tor for increasing interest in latin and its use as a living language the time seems unpropitious for such a venture somehow the present appears to us rather full of more interesting matters still we nis doubt not the devoted founders of this society will urge that the adoption ot of latin as a world language may hasten the day when war will be impossible it is certain that the movement mover nent if it ever moves will bo be hitched up to tile tho war in inma fashion the police of new york want everyone arre arrested s t e d wa who ho crosses a street diagonally or r anywhere a y except at the regular crossings this Is an age of N wheels heels speed has the right ot of way and it if the discrimination against ag alnEt the walking public goes on it will arrive at a point where pedestrians will aill have to tako taho out personal permits with their annual dog license or else show causo cause in court why by they should continue to exist have discovered a new story ol of creation that is the trouble with archeologists archaeologists what the world wants avants to know now Is how and when ullen the present war is going to nd |