GIRLS LIVE IN DREAMS
OF THE FUTURE
Miss Mabel S. Craft, the Red
Cross Couny Nurse says:
Girls, you do not need a crystal
gazing ball to find if the future be
dark or bright. Your happiness lies
within yourself and, true as it is fun
ny, that depends on how much you
forget yourself.
To be needed is to be happy. To
come intimately, tenderly, construct
ively into human lives is happiness
—and there is no other sort that
will not wear threadbare with the
passing of the years.
“Marriage will give us that real
happiness,” you think; but marriage
means the making of a home, and
that takes a big heart and under
standing and requires special train
ing these days.
If you are planning self-support,
nursing will keep you womanly as no
oher work can do. It can develop in
you courage and character, tender
ness and insight, teaching you many
things that will make life, married
or unmarried, happier; for, of all the
lessons that training teaches, the
greatest is the joy of service.
You surely want a broader life
with much more, human interest in
it than a business office or a store
can possibly give. In nursing, you
will find this human interest—and if
you really want it you may also ob
tain an understanding heart. Girls,
you are needed now in the hospitals
that cannot fill their beds with the
suffering who need care because
there are not enough pupil nurses to
give that care.
You do not need money to learn
to be a nurse. The hospial train
ing school will provide you with lil-
ing, uniforms, lectures, and eight or
ten dollars a month for text books
and incidentals during your three
years of training. But you must be
at least nineteen years old, have
completed the four years of high
school,and be in good physical health
before a first-rate training school
will accpet you, no matter how badly
it needs nurses.
And when you have finished train
ing, ever so many types of nursing
are open to you. One nurse, who
teaches, in litle country towns,Home
Hygiene and Care of the Sick for
the Red Cross, writes of a woman
who could neither read nor write,
yet came to every lesson bringing
her daughter. She listened earnest
ly, practiced the making of a sick
bed without a wrinkle, learned just
the right way to turn and bathe a
helpless patient, but the nurse felt
sadly that it would be impossible for
her to take her written examina
tion. Imagine her admiration when
that woman appeared on examina
tion day, dictated all her answers to
her daughter, who wrote them
down, and passed with flyying colors.
Another pupil walked four miles each
way and never missed a lesson Could
you ever get boreed helping such
eagerness ?
Every state in the union is trying
to get Public Health Nurses. As one
of these,you are a vital part of com
munity’s life, with, maybe, a little
home of your own, and the constant
assurance that you are needed and
loved. You may help keep disease
from a whole town or county, teach
ing it to keep well, starting little
children off to health, to happpincss
and usefulness by all you do and
say and live.
Listen to the true story of
“A Regular Nurse”
There had gathered in the court
house the little group of women who
had struggled and prayed for a Pub
lic Health Nurse for their mountain
comm’jnity. The men of local in
fluence, who had opposed that strug
gle, consented at last to consider the
>natter.
Unmoved, the men sat; anxious, the
women waited during a discussion
of the Public Health Nurse, her
qualifications, and the need for her
that existed.
Finally, a doctor rose and said
slowly, “I don’t know about these
public health nurses, but a regular
nurse came to our town and tended
the low-downdest fellow in this coun
ty, and since then he ain’t been such
a low-down fellow, and his family
ain’t been such a low-down family.”
That simple tribute won the day.
The community is looking for a reg
ular nurse—regular Public Health
Nurse.
That’s what you may be, but, no
matter what form of nursing you de
cide on after three years (and oh,
how fast they fly!) you will always
hold tender, funny memories of those
days in training.
Girls, you are needed.
If you want to know more of train
ing schools and nursing opportuni
ties, write to headquarters, National
Nursing Association, 156 Fifth Ave
nue, New York City, or to the Nurs
ing Department of the Southern Di
vision, American Red Cross, 249 Ivy
Street, Atlanta, Georgia.
We will be glad to help you.
LAKEVIEW
Miss Hermina Haynes of Trinity
College left Monday to resume her
duties there, after spending the week
end in Lakeview.
Mr. Duncan Blue, of Greensboro,
was a pleasant visitor in our town
last week.
Miss Maude Blue spent the Easter
holidays with home folks in the Eu
reka neighborhood.
Mr. I. J. Tayntor and family left
last week for their home in West
Eaton, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Burr, left
Friday for their home in Attica, N.
Y. We hope that Mr. and Mrs. Burr
liked our town so much that they will
spend many winters with us.
Mr. J. R. McQueen, is in Richmond
this week on business.
Miss Katherine Williams and Mas
ter Darrow Williams enjoyed a
breezy ride Tuesday with Mr. J. R.
McQueen and Mr. Oscar Seward, over
to Carbonton and several other places
of interest.
Mr. E. P. Burr, who has been in
Florida for the past several weeks,
arrived in town Wednesday and will
be here a few weeks before going
north for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Gardner, of
Pinehurst were Easter visitors at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Gard
ner.
Mrs. Kelly, of Hamlet visited her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Smith,
here last week.
Mr. A. J. Oldham is having con
crete blocks made preparatory to the
erection of his new garage which will
be an excellent addition to Lakeview.
Construction of the new building will
soon begin and everything will be
in readiness for the summer guests.
Mr. Howard See, president of the
Dixie Culvert & Metal Company, of
Atlanta, was a week end guest of
Mr. W. H. McNeill, who is salesman
for the company.
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