The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1903, Page 6

lllt‘fiéfi e Sy Bioe BSherrett | |k OT - more years back bay men of our-men of than -the sick - recruited of the that war were en- had inca- other from those listed force shown uniform pacity in every line of To such numskulls usefuly aboard . hip was then given the responsible task of watch- tending sick of the doctor had prescribed had meted out the dose whether it the ing and the « craft over after (he and apothecary It is not record was 1st's on the fact unpalatable b or pharm uses 1 buymen’s bungling, but the sick that man sick 1ist when he medical supervisiop delay led to. ag many a should ha long be: under s own ravation really serfous consequences led for a hospital the Cangre: r that it has been possible to whip anything like efficient and it will be a year mdre befote equal to the calling pro has been only within will be - their as a body demands five. -of the resident hospital fought . most are These when . enlieting as them do as hospital’ apprent me solutely without professional trainigg of left any sort_and heretofore it has bee largely the fative and judgment hief how the The medical of- to men should be trained, ficer in charge of the naval hospital At Norfolk, Va., began systematic educa- men of the assigned to his jurisdiction and as a result thirty- «ight of them have recently been gradu- ated after a course which has fitted them ently for field work: They will now assigned to the various hospitals for in nursing and later, when the tion of the cory b training exigencies of the service permit, they will instructed tlie refinements of diet ary med- in in bandaging, elemer preparation, fcation and the rudiments of hygiene. To supplement this partly trained force and to put hospitals upon a Dbasis comparable with the management of military and clvflian institutions, Navy Depariment,-at the'instance of Sur- geon General Rixey, has prepared & bill for the creation of a naval corps of This bill will, in our naval trained women nurses all likelihood. begome a law during the T e of ab- the . present sessjon of Congress. The army now employs more thdn a hundred women nurses, and the records of their usefulness are monuments enough to their tender, intelligent ministration to the service sick. While not employed in an official capacity, Surgeon- General Rixey- has not hesitated to secure the ser- vices of trained women nurses for the care of pecullarly serious eases, and the wisdom of his action has been amply proved. The proposition now to employ cuch trained women permanently is bused, therefore, upon practical experi- ence on the part of the bureau of medi- cine ahd surgery. The bill just introduced in Congress pro- vides for one superintendent Woman nurse, who shall be appointed by the Sec- retary of the Navy only after her recom- mendations have satisfied the surgeon general. She will receive $1S00 a year. Upon heg wiil rest immediately the direc- tion, organization and discipline of the corps of women nurses; and upon her will rest the selection of nurses because her official cognizance. She will *be, in all probability, permanently located at the paval hospital in Washington, and subject to the direction of the surgeon general. To facilitate the successful ad- ministration of the corps work each naval hospital will have its chief woman nurse, and subject to each chief woman nurse there will be enough subordinate women nurses to carry out the work of nursing at the four principal naval hospitals on the Atlantic coast and the single one at Mare Island, Cal. The pres- ent bill contémplates a corps of fifty sub- _ordinate nurses, and the establishment of a reserve force additional, from which permanent appointments will be made as the exigencies of the service demand. These women nurses must be citizens of the United States, and they will be deemed qualified only after such examination as the surgeon general shall determine. Ap- pointments shall be for three years, sub- ject to discharge for cause, and for each reappointment they shall receive an in- crease of § per cent in their pay.~ All such other special duty deemed necessary by the surgeon general. Nurses-are to receive, upon first appointment, month when employed within the conti- nental limits of the United States, and $50 per month when beyond those limits. The reserve nurses, when employed on ac- tive: duty, are to “recelve the foregoing pay with 10 per cent additional.” Chief nurses shall not receive more than 325 above the. subordinate nurses. In addition to their pay, the nurses of, the active list of this corps will be al- lowed quarters, subsistence and medical attendance when on duty. The subsis- tence will consist of the hospital ration when ashore and the navy ration when at sea on hospital or ambulance ships. When traveling under orders the mem- bers of the corfs will recelve transpor- tation and necessary expense: Anent the rations, the navy ration is a dally allowance of 30 cents’ worth of food or its commutation, while the hospital ra- tion—the result of a scientific analysis and synthesis of units of energy—is more o a < “and part of theli duties meh In the navi. ‘will be. essentially of hospital practice. They wiil detailed to- fighting ships of asy vill be that instructing the hospital ‘apprentices who shall not have enjoyed the professional educational advantages of these women. It requires no elaboration to make plain the advantages of thus employing trained women. Thelr natures make them pecu- Harly fitted to ministering to the serious- ly sick, where tenderness and a touch of sympathy mean even more than medi- cine; while being of a softer sex they can lend themselves more successfully to letter-writing and listening ic the little helpful confidences that mean so much- to the sick—things to which another man would seldom listen even If.the heart were opened to him. Professionally, trained women nurses need no better tes- timonials than their general records of duty faithfully and skillfully done. Heretofore there . has been “lack of woman's _nursing—dearth of woman's tears.” But now our sick boys of the gallant navy will be tended as only wo- of peculiar personal fitness for special nurses so appointed shall be eligible for expensive and enough to satisfy anybcdy men can tend them. cases. The systematizing of all routine duty at naval hospitals and on boayd able to “sit up and take nourishment.” And to the women is opened ancther ptofessional work will' also come under hagpital and ambulance ships, and r The field of employment of these wo- fleld In which to fight for Uncle Sam. > 4 essentially _a practical age. It is an HIS 1Is centrated effort’ in- the directidn of utility. Ev- erything and anything is eagerly welcorged if it can, be put to nme- diate and personal use. Wou can talk .to about the average business map all day the powers terial things of life and when you hav: or before you have fifshed—~he that Ts:all very true, 1t? What lite? y: “Oh but do yes of what use ‘Is for in everyday w perbaps, will it you WIIT it help you to avold the trials and worries and annoyanges of business life, immunity from poverty, it m will it Insure bealth, or ‘domestic unhappiness, %0, it 1s gopd. If not, we haven't time for 1t Tire ‘causes that have led to this state of public mind are too many and too far re- go into at the present time. There are causes for it. That is sufficient. Nevertheless.1 am optimistic enough 1o be- moved t age of special and con- - third { the souf or any other tmma- “Jongs to the business and nec of them, at leasi—are .decrying the non-religious Gf the twentieth century, I that “the signs of rhe tendenc maintain point 1o spiritual awakening thrc What is the se?" ew di bas.to The times" h this vefy characteristic ¢ Every . séemingly. 1 ough_three stages Ve firét is op: and - the , the second a Applicability and it it. cannot That is -eptance, lication to every- final test day "Iife is the stand the test it is .abardoned: AllLTife is “everyday life alled pra that be- sary side as’it shoud b# We te- tlie s not sepa cal ‘from tht spiritual and of ‘existence-ani this to something remote. Something that_is not to be lived, or [ onsidered on oc- t this life has to very is of neces- affairs. onsclous- are some ghl of tho or except erything th casion. offer in the way of disc -part of our There are different planes of to be sure, and there eve sity ‘a ness, planes upon which certain faculties would The creative power ssible of use. Wagner has never, so far as we cti- race out of barbarism to'what culture we possess in. our everyday, life. sculpture and all the arts idéred a-part of the es- thetic as opposed to the practical life, it is from these arts that -all our’ modern evervday comforts of architecture fur- nishing and so forth have come. There are those who cannot perceive the deli- cate tints in a landscape. To them it is merely a daub of color. But the dellcate tints are there rievertheless. They are as much -a part -of our. everyday life as the dull gr and the noise and the smoke and the sordidness. 3 Now that thought’ transference has been accepted as a fact, after having passed_the stage of ‘opposition. the next question is its applicability to everyday life. *“Will it make easier the struggle for existence? What immediate use can it be put to?" To those who have studied it as I ha the possibilities of telepathy are so limit- less as to e almost appallifig The uredly ‘dawn when “removed. now ve, millennium will all misunderstanding is To look Into the thought world of one who Is ‘despairing will be to remove the cause: That will do away with the hor- ror of suicide at leasts This I myself have dore many times. There is a pecu- liar force in tne thought of self-destruc- tion that will invariably impress the mind of a person sensitive to the reception of theught. 1 believeithat I can detect con- templat®d suicide more quickly than any cther strong taought. # Incidentally, 1 may remark that T am rever deceived. Whether it is because no orie attempts to do so, believing that I can tell their motives, may.of course be " duestioned. The fact remains that al- though 1 may deceive myselfpogsibly; “« s do not attempt to -co -so. ‘Among its most praiseworthy.possibtlities 5’ that topping the universal hab- it of lying.- With the power to read thought, .perfected and in -“‘working or- der,” 80 to speak, It won't bé possible to look a man in the eye and tell him that you aré selling him gilt-edge stock when you know as a matter of fact that it isn't waorth. the paper it is written on. of completely s waves. However, the development of the power among the world in general would prevent the commission of .crime. Since every act is expressed thought, the detec- tion of the “thought-crime” its-.f wnullz raturally lead -to its suppression befort it could become crystallized into action. Detectives would thus become guardians of ‘the public peace in very truth. < Think of the domestic unhappiness that could be saved if husbands and wives had the power to exchange thoughts at will There would be an end to the pathetic wall, “He does not understand me.” And no more lovers’ quarrels through the commion causé of “mutual misunderstand- ‘ing.”. This would, of course, be hard on the: romantic novelist, but Nature always ‘offers compensations for everything she deprives us of. 7 And in all seriousness 1 want to show that this faculty of recelving and trans- mitting thoughts at will as an everyday .working proposition' is not such a uto- pian dream as the incredulous may think. Its realization is not very. remote, as all students: of true psychology of life well MindIRe adingesApplicd-Euervdaviifs = quired to talk above the tumult of wheels and wires ‘and steam whistles and alr brakes and electric gongs—so.requisite a part of our civilization—is & terribla tax on our nervous systems. Those wio are employed In places where there is much nolse of any kind find that the fatigue incidental tostlent - employment s as “. nething compared to that of lssuing or- ders or doing anything that involves sus- tained talking. The life of a soldler’is rest and ease compared to that of an orator or political campalgner. While all civilization tends toward the saving of labor and the conservation of mechanical energy, it is noteworthy that nervous wreckage is a painfully common thing. This {5 due, more than might be supposed, to the nerve waste engendered by the effort of talking. There is prob- ably not a person who reads this but has ‘many times wished that he (or she) could transmit his thoughts without the physical effort of speaking. Now, all in- tense and sustained thoughts find ulfl- mate fruition. Nature is a great pro- vider. "Ask and you shall receive™ is a law.: I believe that this power of telep- Jieve that the present age—whichseemson know. been of special vaiue in hog rals- When we learn to know (he motives that I beleve that successful detectives pos- kncw. . In the first place it is an electrical gypy, or silent perception, that is forcing the surface so materialistic—is in reality ing. but.l trust that no one will deny that ~prompt to sin and wrongdoing. we will no £ess to a greater extent than they real- gos;lbfllly of the near future,” and the jtself upon the world is an effort of exceedingly spiritualisiic. Despite the fact music has been a factor in bringing the' lurger condemn, but cure the wropgdoer. iz€ the ‘facully of recelving: thought feed of it s pressing., The vitality re- nature to supply, this demand. D i I e e 2 e e e ° S-SR e T R O T RESIE bt P mavy. Bage- - [Campbetb D — The money may be hard to part be harder. body be clad with equal warmth all over. Extravasan ks lecture. HERE is a kind of .econ- Now there is no finery in the world yourself. Ferhaps such a restaurant gristly bits of meat, disguised, s0. you omy that amounts al- that compares with that of rosy cheeks .35 ccnis or 50 cents foriit. Viy il. Don’t think, beneath the tomatoes and chilis Only combination suits can accomplish with: but your health will maost to a vice. Women anc bright eyes and the charm of health, economize “by~injuring your digestion. and bread crumbs. Be extravee 1t. - ° this. The arms should be warmly coy- There is danger in & rut. You need a Your chiffon ruff and feather fan When you- are a dyspeptic wreck yYou Don't save money on clothing. Fspe- ered. - i 8 J < stimulus, a change. Have it, even if it who work hard to sup- your port themselves are often adgicted to it Some housekeepers who And toast only i A welsh rarebit will take_twice as much money, perhaps more. But the welsh rarebit is what you should juander your money on—a rarebit and Leer. A Tew ounces of cheese contains more rourisfiment t costs something. Mustc is especially val- uable as a rest for tired nerves. Take a little trip Into the country over a holi- day. This will cost the price of a ticket by boat or train. Buy the ticket. Your physical welfare is much affected by your mental condition. I have seen cases where I thought a girl might bet- ter go without her dinner for the sake of buying a ticket to some place of healthful amusement. Of course this is not a general rule, only an exceptional case, where the difficulty was far more mental than physical. Be extravagant and have the dinner and the concert, too. Remember, if your consclence protests, that all these extravagances are merely the wise investment of capital. Health is the one article that you ecannot do without in your business, whatever that may be. And it pays for itself many times over. Bloomers ‘are important ‘in bad weath- er. Don't save the price of them in order to. have an accordlon-pleated petticoat. Have the petticoat, too, If you can and must; but at any rate, have the bloom- ers. They will cling closely and warmly under your skirt.and ward off any num- ber of colds. 2 : Cultivate extravagance in the matter of ‘pleasures. I don't say this to tiie woman of leisure who has altogether too much pleasuring as it is. I say i to the woman whose life Is a wearing and a dreary one, the woman who finds it easy to lapse ‘into dull drudgery. A certain amount of wholesome Yleasure is worth everything to you, both mentally and physically. If you are in the habit of having all work and no play you are in danger of making Jack a very dull boy To be sure, the ice arc- as nothing to It won't remember the ice cream and mac- caroon lunehes with any gratitude.” You cially to the woman who is a breadwin- .mer’and obliged to go forth in all weath-.. may get past where you can pay for even ers, it is important that she be well them "if you continue to depend™~upon equipped for going forth. There must be them. On the other hand, if you 100k 5 ghort skirt provided for the Taln. after your health you are in the way 6f Don't be without this so that you can advancing and earning more. The §00d buy a ruffed organdie to wear to. the Junch is a wise extravagance. % - next -dance. The chances are.you .will To the housckeeper there is a word to mnever attend that dance if you encourage be said on the subject of ~warmed over. pneumonia too far. Cishes. Whatever you do, don't spare Buy heavy-soled, high boots. They cost your husband’s pocketbook until you ruin more than the ties sold at the bargain his digestion. He will live (or die) to do counter. Be as reckless with your cash anything but thank you for it. I don't as the heavy shoes demand. want to condemn all such food, but it Wear leggings over these when it rains. 3 should be eaten in moderation if at all. They protect your ankles from the rub- eaten on top of a lot of other hearty food. Minced beef, mock duck, all those dainty bing of a wet skirt. They cost a dollar. And have-a glass of gooil beer or porter Jjttle devices to save the price of a good Spend it. . with It 3 roast, are often destroyers of the peace. ‘Wear union under-suits. To be sure, a They are too highly spiced,” for one Jow-necked lisle thread vest can be had thing. For another, and this Is more for twelve and a half cents. Don't be and worse. Spend some money. Buy a important, they are made of the tough, econaomical. The great point Is that the ticket to the theater or a concert or a a costs only 10 cents, or tea cream sc look upon themselves as. “thrifty” are addicted to: e get the habit of false economy it. O fixed upon you and it Is a hard one to gel When a woman sees that she has riG of. saved a dollar in the rain she is so delighted with i a large piece of meat rarebit made with cream—a pound of cheese to.a cup of « by- going without legging the - A eam or beer 'is the appearance of that dollar that she takes jue cream soda for lunch In order to save toward another. The lunch problem is one that confronts every woman who is obliged to eat away t1om her home. The lunch must often be a lonely one and there is a temptation to over it. Above all, there is the present thought In the working woman's mind that if she saves on the It will pay you to go.to-a restaurant where .you can have this rarebit preperly if you have no place to make it of little as This 1 with the_cheese cooked possible, without high seagoning. i€ 1he.ideal lunch. for the busy woman. is all nonsense to call it indigestible. 1t tever is when made properly and not rule, as hurry ever restaurant bill she has that much more made money to put inte finery. “l’l‘i'H‘H-l—i-l—H-H-l-]-l-. —— =0 helMe~-ows. of a Rty b feteSusonman saints here on earth will be surprised to The fellow who boasts of his grand- find how hard they will have to knock be- father generally touches you for the fore the latchkey of heaven gets down to drinks. business. L “Dar's lota ob’ folks When a worhan runs around at the ant old world as the fellow who is talk- business end of & string ‘with a poodle at- ing to you may find out. tachment—shy oft—she may become S S dangerous. N 3 * old Ephraim sald, selves all thelr lives try to look very wise “Dat starts deysefs on Monday when too old for further folly. An' serves de debdil all de week, Bl e Ter bress de Lord oo Sunday.” MAN whe thinks he is marrying & meck lttie berself on the mourner’ angel often runs afoul . S of a hysterical, exact- irg woman. ¥ What is the use of a few mililons -if your nerves are on & per- your digestion. won't It's downright aggravating to hear blat- ant wealth shouting of the blessings of the poor. . Look prosperous and the world will take you at your own valuation. « o . A woman who marries expecting to en- joy a:continuous love feast often finds’ e 4 The cynio is the man whe wants to take The woman who weeps is the woman his spite out on everybody else for his whose eyes are always beautiful; tearless fallures. - cyes are dull and cold:: - > SRS o° torDus " re B i 5 People reel off yarns that they expect A wise man’'and a stingy one keeps ev- YOU to belleve that would insult the intel- erything to himself. . SN O ligence of a brass monkey. i S ey N P Wiel e Matrimonlal poverty is often like a net- tle rash—yon have to scratch for-all the Dhnch. Don't give any one a plece of your mind; E : you have none to spare. When two people marry and one wants g, 8 to marrage, the other refuses to be man- Philanthropy has greater love for the aged, then the divorce fawyer attends to buflding with its spires flaunting the . S name in the face of heaven than it has for the poor who knock &t its portals, . . . Ny . S Conscience can stand ‘an awful .lot of rubbering. * One bass drum can't figure as & whols brass band. petual sirike and work? N . Flattery 1s often.the court Jester's masquerade of irony. & ‘Nor woman. worth a&:man’s career. . . 55 : et - Keep your temper; no one wants it, LSt 5 It would seem that woman's rights cen- Some people always seem as 1if, they had and you may need it. stitute.her wro % e “iA woman who divides her affection be- 8 : ; . been sublected to & soft finish . patent y .., 5 pug and a dude had beiter stick S Spditse ad 00 . R p comfECremaN LUt ) bt TR ; process. " ,..40.the-pug. O:F, 41 %5 There 1s lots of can't in cant. Fame may be a bubble, but some find 3 0.9 . Many husbands and wives would be per- Sy dor JEE = ) ;3 o A O PR 3 o e it a football of fate. The criticism of friends is the familiari- fect ise’'s hy Happh - - % 4 B ff they were somebody eise’s hus- appiness s the musical csmedy of the ‘Before a- girl marries she thinks the A Wise woman prefers friends to lov-. .. ° AR - ;7 ty that breeds‘contempt. . .. bands and wives. o soul. g : 3 L R R . Love that is love is loving and giving, c e 4 R ) Intuition-1s often ‘s logical inference. . e 0 @ ‘man a demigod, after marriage she SR 1Y Are the Davghtes of the Hivolution 3°7% i TR the mothers of thej->r Evolution? o o » Love that is love is always forgiving. safer gulde than One glance of the eyes may play ‘hivoe b L B9 g 5 o with a dozen Iltves: : c e § Love does not want a bombastic declam- atory—"1 love you" fulfills all the prom- ises of hope. g0 The belles now ring milsummer's madness, The beaux exude & warmth of ne. Till love trips in provoking eadness, And teaches lessons of much cad-ness. > v A dyspeptic 1s kept too busy olling his " A woman.is sometimés llke an oyster— unruly niachinery to ever find time to is the heart. love anything or anybody. ; v o : « e e Perhaps some clouds have asilver lin- There Is ¢ften more hypoci: sy Qfa ing, and I guess they'll keep on lining. sanctity cut on clerical lines. There don’t seem to be any chance to peel . e e 1t out. There is & plethora of fools in 'the blat- The summer girl who falls “in lov thinks she is hayving a warm time. ‘When you try to look wise, be careful ce e g . that you don’t look stupld. A man’s wife is often .like a reflector in e .o @ bis home. The other woman is the home. A man who Is in love rarely speaks of 3 S e i his amorata, but & woman can't talk :, .anything else, . the toughest part There is no place like home, as the fel- PR e low who seeks its slumbrous shade fes- tooned with & jag often finds out. . People who have made fools of them- { e Some people who ' thought themselves 2 TheWisdom