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FRIDAY, MAY 26,1918 3fv
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Railway Noi$e Nuisance.
^Railway Age Gazette: Slamming of
vestibule trap-doors and loud talking
by trainmen—especially, loud talking
on platforms around sleeping cars at
night—are among the items to be at
tended to by the Southern railway in
its renewed noise-suppressing cam
paign. just announced. It is gratify
ing to see that the Southern's nolse
eommittee 1b grappling with new as
well as old nuisances. We could name
roads where the slamming of the
trap-doors on cars has been a nuis
ance to passengers for many months,
but where no inspector seems to have
noticed it. And this nuisance is worse
on coaches than on any sleeping car,
for in day cars passengers sit quite
near to the doors. In the Southern's
announcement, the words "Keep
Quiet" appear in capital letters. It is
to *be hoped that the company's in,
spectorB are imbued with the same
purpose as that manifested by the
printer of this circular—the purpose
to emphasize this one simple idea.
Signals to -enginemen by word of
mouth, said allowing steam to escape
near sleeping cars, are among the
other objectionable practices, specified
in the circular but these and all
other annoyances"are reduced when
that one "slogan" is reiterated with
sufficient frequency and vigor. Simple
regulations for the conduct of sane
railroading ought not to need reiterat
ing, except to new men but, taking
things as we find them. It seems
proper to suggest that this branch of
"spring house-cleaning" calls for at
tention north, east and west, as well
as south. Not the least significant
.clause of the Southern's circular is
the last one "the superintendents
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For the man, the young man, the boy
and the child.
Child's wash, suits, ages 2% to 8 yrs., in
Russian blouse, Sailor blouse and Oliv
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Two Suits for "One Dollar."
A few lots of boys' straight pant, suits,
ages 9 to 14 yrs, values to $4.00, go for
$1.00.
A Bargain for "Dollar Day."
One lot of Men's Straw Hats, $2 and
$3 values.
$1.00 Each for "Dollar Day."
50c four-in-hand wash ties, 3 for $1.00
One Dollar off on any men's or young
men's suit in the house from $10.00 and
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Mother Love.^*
St. Louis Globe-Democrat The sen
timent of the race clings to and
twines itself around mother. Nobody
has ever thought of writing about
mother such a song as "Everybody
Works But Father." The one thing
in life sq sacred that nobody ever has
or ever will laugh at it is a mother's
love for her children. The world may
laugh at a woman's love for a man,
and it has grown into an adage that
such a love is often unaccountable, by
any rule of reason.- But that touch
of nature which makes us all kin has
placed mother love on a pedestal and
made us all bow down before it. It
is the one thing consecrate. In times
such as these, when mother hearts
are being torn with grief at the loss
of sons butchered to make madmen's
I holidays, when Rachel mourns and
cannot be comforted because her chil
dren are not, motherhood's appeal
should be stronger than ever, even in
lands of peace. Motherhood is worthy
of. special veneration now that it is
sacrificing more than ever before in
history.
A Simple Solution.
Chicago Evening Post: That mast
erly statesman, Gore, has solved
everything. He would end the war
by resolution of the United States
s.enate.
A Vienna statistician figures that
the Austrian infantry has fired 1,500,
000,000 cartridges and the artillery
12,000,000 shells since the beginning
of the war.
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HELD LAST HIGH!
Members of the Graduating Class of
St. Joseph's Nurses' Training
School, Were Quests
of Honor.
DIPLOMAS PRESENTED
Address of Evening Detlvered by W
G. Blood—Those Who
Have Completed
Course.
There were over, fifty guests pres
ent at the banquet given In the ban
quet hall at St. Joseph's hospital last
night in honor of the graduating class
from St. Joseph's nurses training
class. Besides the six" who were
graduated, all nurses' of the hos
pital, the sisters and the physicians
and their wives were present.
The guests were all seated at one
long table, which was beautifully dec
crated in baskets of sweet peas and
other flowers.
The clasB colors, rose and white,
were attractively carried out in the
decorative scheme. The hall leading
to the banquet chamber was decorat
ed with ferns. In the receiving line
were Mrs. Blank and Mrs. Bisanz.
One wore a white and one an old rosa
dress, carrying out the color scheme
of the evening.
During the banquet hour the high
school orchestra played a number of
pleasing selections. The menu w&3
as follows:
Tomato Bouillon
Whipped Cream Wafers
Creamed Chicken
Mtashrooms in Patti Sheila
Creamed Brown Potatoes
Asparagus on Toast
Hot Rolls Pickles Olives Coffea
Combination Salad with Wafers
Strawberry Ice Cream
White Cake Mints
The banquet was. given by the sis
ters and undergraduate nurses of St.
Joseph's hospital for the six who
later in the evening received their
diplomas. This annual affair was a
most enjoyable one and those who
arranged for it are to be congratulat
ed for the attending success.
Dr. Frank M. Fuller, chief of staff,
gave a toast to the nurses following
the banquet. At tne graduating ex
ercises Dr. Fuller presided and intro
duced W G. Blood, who spoke on
"The Value of the Nurse." Follow
ing this Dr. Fuller presented diplomas
to the following six graduates: Miss
es Agatha Schneider, Keokuk, Mary
Isabel Oldham, Keokuk Eva Biery,
Carthage Mabel Folker, Keokuk
Grace Shirley Dell, KeoBauqua
Bertfca Augusta Blum, Kahoka.
W. G. Blood's Address.
Mr. Blood spoke in part as follows:
Your profession is one that is ap
preciated in this Country. It may
seem at times that the physician and
the surgeon get all the glory and the'
fame, just as they get most of tne
cold cash. But I dare hazard a guess
that the average patient has quite as
warm and kindly a feeling for the
faithful nurse as for the greatest
doctor who ever felt his pulse. The
'/doctor oomes and goes in a short
time. The patient is generally the
fone
person fit fin operation, or in
.some dangerous fever, who dont
know what's going on, and has very
little appreciation of the fine skill
and cool nerve of the operator, or the
calm judgment of the physician. But
the nurse, like your fever, or pain, or
whatever the trouble is, is with yM
always. She eases your pain, she
keeps you clean, she feeds you, she
tells you when to sleep, and when to
talk., and when to walk. She is
mother, and teacher, and sympathiz
er, and comforter, and czar, all put
t0ane8army
nurse called Mother
Bickerdyke caused the discharge of
a drunken hospital attendant, who
appealed to General Sherman. Oh
said the general, "it's Bick
erdyke Then I can do nothing for
vou She outranks me." While oi
indomitable will and great executive
ability she was also as tender to
wards the sick and wounded as s&e
was fierce towards those who inter
fered with her work. Mrs. livermore
writes about her:
After the tattle of Donnelson,
when the relief parties had discon
tinued their work for the night, the
general observed a faint light flitting
about on the abandoned battlefield.
It was Mother Bickerdyke, with a
lantern, still groping among the
dead. Stooping down and turning
their cold faces toward her, she scru
tinized them searchingly, uneasy lest
some might be left uncared for. She
could not rest while she thought any
were Overlooked who were yet liv
ijjg"
Just one more picture from the
same chapter. John Breckenridge,
who was at one time an attorney gen
eral of the United States, had a
slender, beautiful, queenly grand
daughter, Margaret E. Breckenridge.
She also was an army nurse—"Aint
he an angel," the soldiers said But
she overtaxed her strength, refusing
to listen to the protests of her friends.
"You will die," they said. "Well,
what if I do," was her steady an
swer. "Shall men come here by tens
of thousands, and fight and suffer
and di©, and shall not "women be
willing tfc .die to sustain and succor
them?" And so she died,- griving
only, that she was taken away from
the suffering soldiers who needed
her.
And this is being multiplied a
thousand times a few thousand miles
away—today. This very night, thous
ands of noble, lovely, highly trained
and efficient women are giving their
time and brains, and sympathy, their
skill and experience, their knowledge,
DAILY GATE CITYf
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TIMiii TO ALASKA'S GOLD CAMPS
NOW IS REDUCED BY THREE DAYS
ftgtUMpx/ta AXA9KA PK3W.O.NTOStyr
Three days have been cut off the
travel time from Washington to the
government railroad camps and to
the argonauts' and tourists' gate
ways to Alaska by a short cut
through Canada.
Steamer service from Prince Rupert
to historic Wrangell and Skagway
and other Alaska ports has been es
tablished by means of which, through
the great wilderness of mountains in
British Columbia, the tourist can
reach Alaska in record time. The
their life even, for the sick and suf
fering. Thousands of women in every
walk of life, from the peasants to the
throne, are nursing over there. The
queen of Belgium, and the czarina
and two of her daughters are working
in the Red Cross. Members of the
English and German and Austrian and
Italian royal families are spending
their time in your profession. With
out the work of women today, the
Red Cross work botl» in peace and
war could not be done.
Legal Phase of Subject.
The legal phase of this subject
may be to you, as it is to me, worth
considering for a few moments. It any of these laws, of a fine of $100
is a common complaint to blame the
lawyers with the multitudinous bills
that are introduced and passed from
years to year by the various law
making bodies of the country. And
yet I find that a considerable part of
the legislators' time in the recent
years has been occupied in consid
ering your honorable profession.
A number of laws as to nursing
have been recently passed in Iowa.
You are entitled to use free passes,
with physicians, in attending persons
injured in wrecks on public carriers.
(S. 2157-g)
The board of trustees
hospitals nr^y establish
tain a training school for nurses.
(S. 406-0.)
A whole chapter of the supplement
to the code is devoted to the practice
of nursing, and it is now made un
lawful to profess to be a registered
or graduated nurse without a certifi
cate from the state board of health,
ercept in certain instances. Examin
ations are held by a committee of
physicians and nurses, and all appli
cants must be 21 years of age or
more, of good moral character, and
graduates of some recognized school
with at least two years 'hospital prac
tice. The school must now be at
tached to a general hospital and have
a three years' course of study. The
examination covers elementary hy
giene, anatomy, physiology, materia
medica, dietetics, practical, medical
and surgical nursing, obstetrics, nurs
ing of children, and the rules and
regulations of the state board of
health relating to infectious diseases
and quarantine, and such other sub
jects as the examiners may require.
a friend to
tender skins
Many ill-made toilet soaps contain
free alkali, a harsh chemical which
tends to dry and injure the skin or
hair.« Resinol Soap contains abso
lutely no free alkali, and to it is added
the soothing, healing-Resinol med
ication, which doctors have used for
over 20 years in treating skin troub
les. Thus it comforts tender skins,
and helps nature
clear the complex
ion and keep the hair rich, lustrous
and free from dandruff. Sold at
all druggists' and toilet counters.
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Grand Trunk Pacific steamers are ta
be sent on to Alaska after reaching
Prince Rupert from Vancouver with
a "courier' to name the mountain
passes and to point out the halibut
fisheries on the way.
"This makes a direct route from
the coast of Maine to the remote
glaciers on the coast of Alaska," said
W. P. Hinton, traffic manager,
"by way of Prince Rupert^ the
Pacific port which was tuilt to
order,' where is one of the finest
natural, harbors in the world.",
The examining fee 1b 15.00, and if you
pass, you pay one more dollar for
your certificate, which confers upon
the holder the right to practice as a
registered nurse.
Iowa reoognizes nurses of other
states who recognize our nurses, pro
vided said states have similar re
quirements to Iowa. There are elab
orate provisions in regard to the
duties of nurses, and as to a revoca
tion of the certificate for certain
violations of the law, and the trial of
such matters, in all of which of
couree yo-u will not be interested.
There is also a penalty for practicing
without such certificate, or violating
or thirty days in jail. (S. 25"5-a28
to a35.)
A quite interesting discussion has
been going on recently in the public
prints that affects your profession
very directly. The bureau of immi-1
gration of the federal department of
labor, has allowed Miss Stoer of
Toronto to accept a position at
Athens, Ohio. She is a graduate
nurse, trained in England and Can
ada, and was detained at Buffalo!
under the immigration laws, which
prohibit contract laborers from com-1
ing here, and only excepts actors,!
of county!-artists, lecturers, singers, and per-1
and main-
SOns
belonging to any organized
learned profession. So you see the
issue was clearly made as to whether
nursing was a "recognized learned
profession." Miss Helen R. McDon
ald of Hamilton, Int., a graduate of
Johns Hopkins hospital, was like
wise detained and also debarred from
this country.
There is another exemption clause
in this immigration law, namely,
"personal and domestic servants."
No such plea has ever been made by
those nurses seeking admission. This
in itself is significant of the whole
•trend toward training and profession
al standards, that no nurse has claim
ed this exemption. She has too high
and dignified appreciation of her
honorable profession to do this. She
would rather be barred out.
Another Exemption.
There is still another exemption,
namely, "if labor of like kind cannot
be found in this country." And in
passing It might be observed as I
somewhat indicative of the growing
demand for this profession, that calls I
for trained nurses from the boards of
liealth of at least seven mid west I
states have been made. And this was
before the unceasing and overwhelm
Ing demands that have come since
the great European conflict. The
Red Cross of all countries is doing a
magnificent work for the soldier and
the civilian, both of whom need
help on account of war and famine
and disease. Recently reorganized in
this country under the leadership of!
ex-President T&ft, Mabel T. Board
man, General Gorgas of tihe army,
and General Braisted of the navy,
and other prominent persons, the
work has been divided into two de-1
partments, one for civilian relief
under Ernest P. Bicknell, and for
military relief under General Murray.
Today the possibilities of your pro
fession are boundless. As conserv
ers and saviors of life, your profes
sion is outranked by none, being
equalled only by that of medicine, of
which nursing is certainly the_ hand
maiden. Medicine and
use the terms in the
Our government has been advertis
ing for trained nurses in our own
work in the Philippines, in the Indian
service and at Panama. The salary
ranges from $50 to $85 a month, la­
With the
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2 ?5c Bath Towels for
$1.2o Water Bottles
$1.50 Water Bottles
$1.2-5 Fountain Syringe
$1.50 Fountain Syringe
$1.25 Perfume Atomizer
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Made from the famous Prisoilla Prepared Doughnut
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Packed in wax-lined boxes as illustrated. Always fresh
because we make them every day.
Better than the kind mother used to make.
Try a Box of Priscillas
On sale Saturday for the first timer
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2 60c boxes Armand talcum powder and 25c powder puff for .. 1.00
2 50c boxes Wilhelmina talcum powder and 26c powder puff for 1.00
$1.25 Razor Strop for
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$1.50 Razor Strop for
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$1.25 Willson Goggles
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$1.10, $1.20, $1.40 and $1.50 flash lights, complete 1.00
$1.25 Hair Brushes
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$1.50 Heavy Nail Clips
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Fountain Pens
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3 Packages Kidney Pills
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5 cane Colgates or Williams Talcum Powder 1.00
3 oz. 50c Imperial Perfume 1.00
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Corner Fourth and Main.
eluding quarters, board and laundry.
In the Indian service, a campaign Is
being carried on against tuberculosis
and trachoma, which two diseases
have so rapidly depopulated these
tribes.
I might also refer to the fact that
nursing—(I Iowa's nurses have been organized
professional for over a dozen year. Only last week
sense)—are today the two big factors the thirteenth annual convention of
for the saving and conserving of
human life.
the Iowa State Association of Regis
tered Nurses was in session at Bur
lington, which I notice was attended
by several Keokuk ladles.
Dr. S. Weir Mitchell wrote an at
tractive little book entitled "DoJtor
and Patient," in which he says to
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avoid the doctor who is not concern
ed about your diet, sleep, work and
play, and the garrulous and newsy
Woods Hutchinson said the same
thing just recently. And are not these
phases of the patient's treatment
those with whioh the nurse has much
to do?
Trained In Hospitals.
Lyman Abbott says there are about
'20,000 trained nurses practicing In
the United States who have obtained
their preparation in hospitals, and
that from five to ten timee as many
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