Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1924, Page 95

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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 1. C~GRAVURE SECTION- APRIL 6, 1924 THE WELL TRAINED NURSE By W. E. HILL Copyright, 1924, By the Chicago Tribune. Miss Wilton, the night nurse, is five minutes late. She's been having dinner with her best young man. e 2 Yo, \J My dear. T wish you could see the way she dolls up hefure the doctor comes! And a little rouge for even the internes! WO nurses and a probat.oner talk over the patients. Miss Bemis, Mrs. Daw- sev's day nurse. is helping enitertam Mrs. Dawsey's visitors. She's brought out the Dawsey appendix in its own ittle pickle jar, to show them. Miss Boriclor has been on cases in all the best movic households and, oh, the illusions she shatters by so doing She knows for a certainty that Gloria Gleeson wears false teeth and curses out her mother. and as for Dor- rance Devine. the idol of the screen, “Why, he's just a Jittle ignorant wop with bad teeth. | know. because | nursed his wife when she had mfluenza, and every time he came near her he threw something at her.”” You won't have an idol left when good Nurse Boriclor finiches. “Say good night to your posies,” savs Miss Ploughman, as she takes the flowers outside the sickroom. orphy spe- es innerve ailments and such Mrs. Gorphy has a great deal of trouble hel stairs when on a fresh internes—they f 3 . ek : private case. The silie i 4, 4 g : : s ; cook is always do- put in their place 5 4 % and then! 5 4 . § 7 3 ing her dirt. Once F > . d Mrs. Gorphy found out that the chauffeur was having the choic- est of delicacies for his meals while Mrs. Gor- phy was living on the very plamest in the land. Often Mrs. Gorphy is grievously msult- ed. Many's the time she has gone to French Lick or Atlantic C.ty with an old gen- : \ tleman suffering A probationer with a nice howl - v from lumbagoand ot broth, and a thousand and g °) X : had to turn right one things on her mind. ] £ ; . around and come It's a lung road to a graduate d 3 home, so obvious nurse. ; § * ? ' 3 . 2 was it that things . » weren't quite right. Poor Mrs. Gorphy. ow The nurse with the chatty bedside manner, who aims to entertain. She will tell the patient whose appendix has just been removed all about the case she heard of last year. where a man had the scissors and a sponge left inside him and they finally stuck through six months after the operation.

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