Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1921, Page 53

SOCIETY 66J ANGUAGE is not subtle enough, tender enough to express all we feel. And when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are transiated into music.” Thi out the length and breadth of the civilized world the STEINWAY has brought education, pleas- ure, hope, courage, comfort and inspiration to mil- lions of people. ‘Wherever good music is cultivated and appreciated this superb Piano is FIRST CHOICE of the musi MERIT alone has won and maintained this distinction. “The Piano of the Musical Immortals” 'I A choice selection of Steinway Grand and Upright Pianos Grand, at $1,375. TEINWAY maintained on our Second Floor, where your .critical inspection“an’c} i trial is cordially welcomed. Special attention is called to Style “M THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THE INSTRUCTIVE VISITING NURSE IN HOME OF THE SICK. | is always Player-Pianos The Silent Piano finds a perfect remedy in these High-grade Player- Pianos. - The Autopiano ........$675 Up The Pianista ..........$625 Up The Angelus...........$695 The Waldorf .........$575 The Artapollo ........$975 (Eleetric and Foot) The instruments of Accept no substitute. Welte-Mignon Reproducing Piano NOTHING CAN BE MORE PERFECT. Autopiano Welte, Hazelton Welte, $1,050 H $1,500 Victor-Victrolas bringing real pleasure and cementing home ties in strongest bonds. Educational, uplifting, unqualifiedly superior. Genuine Victor-Victrolas. $25 to $1,375 | Our stock of Victor Records con- tains every available number at all times.—Ground Floor Dept. every home, —_— = We Carry the Largest Stock of High-Grade Pianos in Washington—Priced From $385 Up i E. F. DROOP & SONS C0., 1300 f s ' % patients of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Soclety. Two of the regull invalid, looks a is bedridden. Her sister, herself a part] eighty years old, the other, weventy-six. The Vil patients, and they y to these two. VISITING NURSES TO ASK PUBLIC Week's Campaign for $50,000 to Begin April| . 24 to Meet Enlarged Scope of Society After Twenty Years' Service. Once upon a time, a little over culosis Society. Last summor this twenty years ago to be exact, a gtr:p was lvgmn‘for u‘v»:tty dnyl‘htlrlls rage gain. In weight per ol small group of Washington women | fTo80 FRIf In WOERt per Bl thought that the city would be the|the society put a nurse on school- better for the services of a visiting | Work to show the need of such serv- APRIL 17, 1921—-PART 2. One, the widow of a Cenfederate officer, her between the welcome visits of the nurse. Ome is ing nurses become greatly attached to some of their regular We Know His Kind. From the Boston Transeript. 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Branch Stores in 10 Other Cities nurse, such as other cities already had in varying numbers. They there- upon got together and employed one for the ensuing three summer months. The fleld for such work was imme- diately found to be far more extended than its sponsors had even dreamed. They enlarged thelr efforts and their contributions and the result is the In- structlve Visiting Nurse Soclety of Washington, with a trained staff of eighteen geaduate nurses and an ar- dent desire to employ twice that many. Fulfillment of that wish de- pends on the city’s willingness to re- spond to the first big campaign for funds ever staged by The society, to begin April 24. and last one week, and arranged almost coincidently with the twentieth anniversary of the society. Laudable Purpose. “To provide trained nurses to visit and care for such persons as cannot or ought mot to be sent to hospitals, and who are otherwise unable to se- cure skilled attendance; to teach proper care of the sick, and to in- culcate the principles of simple san- itation,” is the phraseology used in the constitution adopted, “following the signing of the certificate of in- corporation in April, 1900, the in- corporators being Emily Tuckerman, ary W. C. Bayard and Anne A. Wil- son. 1f ever the title of an organization was descriptive thereof It is that of the “I V. N. 8.” as it is styled, for short. It visits, it nurses and it in- structs. About two-thirds of its pa- tients are nursed free of charge. Many others pay what they can, and some the actual cost of the visit. How do they do {t? Without going now into a description of how they have done it, which is an interesting and inspir- ing story, the answer is that to keep on with the work it has become necessary for the community to recognize more fully and to Melp support the society. For two decades it has been self-sup- porting—that is, it received its sup- port from limited and fixed sources. No longer is it possible to keep on that way, however, 80, standing on the rec- ord of its services to the community during the past, it is asking for $50,000, and confidently hopes to get it. Reanons for Campaign. This seems a lot of money. It is, and the society plans to do a lot with it. There are several reasons why it needs so much in the way of public support. The first is that up tiil now it has never had any at all. Another is that the cost of maintenance has in- creased alarmingly during the last few years, and another is that the organiza- tion wants to expand. Frequent chlls are made on it to which it cannot pos- sibly respond. These calls show the V. N. 8. has the ma- chinery. The public has the money, to serve as fuel. should be paid the nurses, who, in spite of cold and sleet and rain and wind and summer’s broiling heat, faithfully tend tueir patients. Additional office rootn is urgently needed, as well as more technical books and magazines for study and reference. This eficient health agency ‘cov- jers” the entire city. Its nurses work under rules as rigid as those of any hospital. In fact, the city is, in a sense, the hospital and its nine nurs- ing districts are the wards. Their work supplements. but never dupli- cates or interferes with the work of either hospitals or doctors, for when a patlent should go to a hospital the soclety promptly refers him or her to one, while among the first rules taught a new nurse is that she shall not remain on a case unless a doctor is in attendance. 32416 Vi in Year. Some idea of the work done by the staff, which consists of a director, two ‘supervisors fifteen graduate nurses, two of them maternity nurses, may be gained from the fact that in 1930 the members made 32,- 416 visits. The patients represent ail creeds, every color and eighteen dif- ferent’ nationalities. A preponder- ance of them vere female and they were nearly equally between Colored and white, oo betwee The first great test of the “I V. N. 8" came with the first epidemic of influenza. During those tragic weeks it ‘“made itself solid” “with many a family which, up to that time, had never heard of it. The city was crowded as never before. The shortage of nurses was acute. Great as the toll of death here was, no one will ever know what it might have been if these nurses had not been “on the job.” Red Cross Recognises Work. By the time of the first recur- rence of the “flu” fn 1919, the Red Cross gave recognftion of the reconl the “I V. N. S had made by as- signing fifteen Army nurses, reieased from cantonments and equi with three motor cars, to work under the direction of the society. That experience, with the added nurses and motor facilities, gave the soclety a taste of what it could do with an enlarged force, and Served to re- double the determination of its mean. ers to expand in the near future. arious types of nursing have been added from time to time, one of the most interesting being the ma- ternity service, conducted by two nurses, trained specially along that line, who visit homes befors, during and’ after the stork's visit. Last year they assisted at 113 births and Tubercular Children Cared Fer. In addition to {its strictly nursing mervices the society e-élmuv of +the children at the Red Cross day ) camp, maintained by the Anti-Tuber- | More adequate salaries [ ice, and as a result tgn such nurses are now busy here, paid b; gressional appropriation. staff were assigned as tuberculosis nurses and so demonstrated their value that the city has now taken over that feature of con- servation. e I V. N. §. is a oor- porate member of the National Or- ganization for Public Health Nurs- Ing and co-operates with virtually all the welfare and mercy organi- zations of the District, patients be- ing constantly referred both to and by such bodies. Establishment of memorial endowed nurses early in the history of the so- ciety gave It an Impetus which en- abled it to carry on its work for years at comparatively small expense. There are seven of these, while still another nurse is supportéd entirely by All Souls’ Unitarian Church. It is hope% that the approaching campaign may be featured by the establishment of additional memorial nurses not only by well-to-do Washingtontans who prefer such living, breathing and hard-working memorials to those of stone or stained glass, but also by business and industrial concerns which can recognize the fact that their employes would so benefit from the existence of such an endowment that their contribution would be really an investment. The nurses themselves confess to a special campaign wish of their own. This is that some public-spirited man or woman will give them an auto- mobile. They are even explicit about the make they want. They want a Ford. With it they could answer calls further afield and answer emergency calls more quickly. Hard-worked as they are, they deplore the long street car rides often necessary to reach the bedside of some sufferer. ‘What Money Wil Do. Other succinct suggestions to those supporting the campaign inelude the following: $1,400 pays the salary of a staff nurse at present rate of pay for a year; $60 pays for the care of one chronjc patient for a year; 3$6.50 pays for the care of one newly-born baby and its mother; $1.30 pays for two nursing visits to a man, woman or child (the society is often asked if it will care for men as well as women or children, and the answer is always an emphatic “Yes), and 65 cents pays the cost of a one-hour nursing visit. The sum of $1 makes the donor a member of the society. Officers of the society are: Mrs. Whitman Cross, president; Mrs. W. H. Wilmer and Mrs. Willlam Corcoran Bustis, vice presidents; Mrs. Willlam Grinnell, treasurer, and Miss Farrar 8mith, secretary. Board of Managers. Mrs. Herbert Hoover and Mrs. Charles Goldsmith are the latest ad- difions to the board of managers, other members of which are Miss E. O. Adams, Mrs. Blaine Beale, Mrs. C. H. M J. M. Carlisle, Mrs. . A. Delano, Mrs. Gfbson Fahnestock, Mrs. L. A. Frothingham, Mrs. R. B. Huidekoper, Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann, Mrs. F. A. Keep, Mrs. Louis C. Lehr, Mrs. Henry Marquand, Mrs. Adolph C. Miller, Mrs. G. Brown Miller, Mrs. John L. Newbold, Mrs. G. J. Rowolifr, Miss Sophie Sweet, Mrs. Corcoran Thom and Mrs. Clarence Wilson. Headquarters of the soclety are at 1413 G street northwest, the two tele- phones needed to recelve the constant calls being Franklin 6387 and Frank- lin_6442.. Contributions should .be sent o Reginald S. Huidekoper, Wilkins building, campaign treasurer. ‘World Wants But Cannot Pay. From the London Post. On the Clyde and the other great working centers there has been & great cancellation of orders, and there I8 also a paraly®ing uncertainty as to the capacity of certain of our foreign markets to pay for the goods they require. 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