Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1917 — Page 2

Want to be a Red Cross Nurse?

This article tells what are the requirements and describes the work some .American women in field service have done in Europe

By JANE A. DELANO Chairman National Committee Red Cross Nursing Service. work of the Red Cross divided roughly into two ’ N |S| classes —first, peace ac- * fl tivity in cases of pestl|§S lence, famine, fire and W flood, and, second, in time i|Xw ESN of war, relief and care for 1 the sick and wounded and relief to dependent families of soldiers—carries an appeal at this time to the American woman exercised perhaps by other organized war effort, either governmental or private. To those who may have felt the pull of this appeal or who may be in contemplation of essaying the difficult role of the Red Cross nurse the question “What does a woman need to know to be eligible as a Red Cross nurse?” must often have occurred. A glance at some of the most important prerequisites to service as a Red Cross nurse will prove at once that more than 90 per cent of those who aspire to go to the front as Red Cross nurses must be eliminated at the start through Jack of experience necessary to fit them for the work. The Red Cross nurse must have been graduated from a nurses’ school, giving at least two years’ general hospital training in an institution caring for both sexes and maintaining a daily average of at least 50 patients. Some of the Qualifications. She must be not only of voting age, but must have added four additional years of discretion and arrived at the mature age of twenty-five, yet she must not have passed her fortieth birthday.

If her state law so requires she must have been registered as a nurse under the law. If your potential nurse has satisfied all of the requirements already named she must be in addition a member of an organization affiliated with the American Nurses’ association and obtain the indorsement of Its executive committee or two of Its officers. She must have the Indorsement of the superintendent of the nurses’ school where her diploma was acquired, the further approval of the local committee on Red Cross nursing service, and, finally, must pass the exacting physical examination required by the Red Cross before assignment to" active duty. A woman needs to know many things and have wide experience to be eligible as a Red Cross nurse. The work which must be done in the case of the wounded In hospitals not only demands skill and training In the technique of nursing, but also a constitution accustomed to bear the strain of physical effort and a nervous system which will withstand shocks of whatever Intensity. The stipulations made by the Red Cross, to be satisfied by its nursing candidates, can be said to

The Man Who Saved Belgium

Herbert C. Hoover, being nineteen years of age, depending on his resources, quiet, self-confident and sparing of speech, presented himself tn 1891 in the new Stanford university as the first student to be registered, the first occupant of Encina hall, and as the nucleus of the department of ■geology and mining. As nearly every|body else among the 465 students was a freshman likewise, lack of experience was no bar to anything. So, as a freshman, he organized the finances of the student body on a sound system which remains to this day when the jstudent. group spends many thousand dollars a year in its varied activities. Duly graduated in 1895 as a mining engineer, Hoover accepted the first position offered, a place on the staff of a mining corporation in Nevada counity, California. The pay was $2 per !day, the assignment to push i cars from the mouth of the mine to the reducing works. The cars all reached their destination, and a more specialized job followed. Next he appeared In the most desolate spot In the (Civilized world, Broken HUI, In the desert of New South Wales. In this desolate, forsaken wallpw of sand, zinc and gold, Hoover and his tewm-nT«fft r 'D. ~P. Mitchell, of *96, spent a red-hot summer night discussing the chances of a return to the world. 'Should they go on as wage-working I mining experts in the countries God forgot, or should they throw it all up and go bdck to some honest trade in California? This is the tradition. The fact is, Urey stayed by, and then

MUCH IN LITTLE.

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be most appropriate to Insure nursing material capable of proving equal to wartime emergencies. Nurses' Aids May Be Needed. A limited number of nurses’ aids may be used at the front who lack the wide professional training required of the nurse. Though the greater volume of Red Cross work must be done at home, the experience of deepest human interest will always be met in the paths trod by the Red Cross nurse in the actual care of the wounded soldier. The professional Red Cross nurse who is so fortunate as to reath the front will meet with experiences to which the supporting armies of. women behind the lines are strangers.

The last request of the dying soldier is often intrusted for fulfilment to the Red Cross nurse and his last message to her hands for delivery. American Red Cross nurses have’ served In caring for wounded of all European armies since September, 1914, but with the sending of the Pershing expedition to the western battle front American boys will bleed, suffer and die and the American Red Cross nurse will share their sorrows. Service as a Red Cross nurse, while founded upon the principle of ministering to others, is not without its own Inherent hazards to those’engaged, as witnessed by the regent Mongolia in-, cident, in which the fives of two American hero nurses were sacrificed for the American cause. The function of the Red Cross nurse might be best expressed in the words of lan Malcolm, the representative on the British commission recently in Washington of the British Red Cross, who deflned.lt to be “to draw a great net of mercy through an ocean of unspeakable pain.” Incidents are legion which show the patriotism, heroism and bravery of American nurses In the Red Cross

came a series of events which led Hoover to China and Mitchell as a general manager to Melbourne. He was thirty-four years old by this time, we are told by David Starr Jordan in Sunset Magazine. He had gone to the limit as a mining engineer. He could do nothing more with it as a profession except to pile up more money. He had all the money he needed and he wanted to do something else. There •‘was Agricola, whom he would like to translate. There was a lot of ancient record stones from his mine on Mount Sinai. Hoover considered entering American politics. When the war began there were more than 200,000 Americans scattered’ over Europe. These met with all sorts of troubles and grievances, great and small. Some were rich and temporarily stranded, some permanently poor, some eking out petty Incomes or alimonies in the cheapest villages of Bavaria, Saxony or France. The Hoovers took charge of the commission for their relief. The operations of the committee at the Savoy hotel, wholly American and wholly unpaid, showed the marvelous tact and skill with which American folks can handle a new situation. About 6,000 Americans were ’sent home, and several times that number gained femporary relief. The relief of 6,000,000 of Belgians against democratic famine “working day and night” was a problem of infinite dimensions, but Hoover tackled it as part of the day’s work. If “Belgium saved Europe,” as my good friend Sarolea says it did, then America saved Belgium, and Hoover was her agent. I

Very few states of this country have reliable birth registration systems. The Jargest sugar refinery ih the Tgorld is located at Chalmette, on the Mississippi river, near New Orleans. A disappearing orchestra pit installed in some Western theaters enables the musicians JO come or go in & body without any undue commotion. A front bicycle wheel, equipped with a suitable handle and a cyclometer, is now employed in a number of the national forests, of the West in measuring trails.

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service, and these attributes have made the service what it is today. — It is stated that as soon as information reached Chicago of the loss of the two nurses on board the Mongolia and the serious injury of a third a number of nurses in that city promptly volunteered to fill the places of--those-who had made the “major sacrifice” in the service of their country. Red vCross nurses in Serbia, In order that they might have better facilities in caring for the wounded, elected to go to Belgrade, on the Austrian front, taking up a position in a hospital exposed to shell fire of the enemy. These nurses remained in this dangerous position through the capture of Belgrade by the Austrians, followed by its recapture by the Serbians and later by a subsequent recapture by the Prussian and Austrian armies, all the time directly in ffie line of fire. That it is impossible to anticipate and provide against danger is demonstrated from the fact that not a nurse among the number of more than 250 sent by the Red Cross to foreign battlefields since September, 1914, has lost her life, while it remained for two nurses peacefully seated on the deck of a ship in midocean to meet with a fatal accident which occurred during practice firing.

Nurses, working, in Belgium occupied a spot situated in the line of flight frequently traveled by Zeppelins in crossing the English channel. In some instances windows in hospitals occupied by these Red Cross nurses were broken by bombs cast by the aircraft, yet not a nurse suffered injury. Experience of Two Nurses. Red Cross nurses have been assigned to duty in all European countries and not a single nurse died from accident since the opening of the European war. The experience of Miss Helen Scott of Illinois and Miss Rachel Torrance of New York is a drama of thrills. Thestf two nurses were sent out, on board the Red Cross ship in September, 1914, to Russia, where they helped to organize a Red Cross hospital at Kleff. After about one year’s service in this city, at the urgent request of the queen of Bulgaria, they were transferred to her country to aid the Bulgarian government in establishing a nursing service for the Bulgarian army. In this work a nurses’ school was established in Sofia, into which many native women graduated from the American college at Constantinople, were., received for training. These two American nurses continued their work at Sofia until the hospital service there was taken over by the Germans. During this time they were always under tbp dl rect patronage of the Bulgarian queen. After the assumption of the work by thie Germans, Miss Hay and Miss Torrance werit to Phllippopolis and took over the relief work In that part of the country at the request of the Bulgarian queen. These nurses were recalled to the United States immediately after the declaration, on April 6, of the existence of a state of war by the congress of the United States and have already reported to Red Cross headquarters in Washington.

In war expert services must be conserved, and while it seems necessary to hold our enrolled Red Cross nurses for the technical hospital service, there is still ample opportunity for the service of the patriotic women throughout America. To meet the needs of the present situation every woman must be willing to perform the duty for which, she Is best qualified, believing that every service rendered to once’s country is equally important—New York Herald.

Her "Bit" Not Appreciated.

Mrs. Flynt E. Biskett—l want to Join the army. I think I’ll enlist As a cook. . F. EL jp.—Sh-h! Hush, my dear. They’re arresting people for making threats against the army.—-Judge.

Cumulative Discovery.

“They’ve discovered a mammoth in the Hindenburg trenches in France.” “So I read, but they learned long before that they had an elephant on their hands.”

War Activities Affect Clothes

New York.—War relief work has given an unusual stimulation to the clothes industry. The dressmakers were not in a happy frame of mind during the spring. They felt as if ill luck were hitting them all along the line. There was an offensive against the center and the ends. First, there were the enormous prices that had to be paid to the French designers for the gowns that were sent to this country as inspirations for new work. Added to the prices was the serious danger of not being able to get the clothes that were ordered through the lack of transportation that came after this government dismissed the German amThe renewed activity of the submarine campaign was liable to make Mr. Glnty and French gowns comrades on the sands of the sea. When the prices had been paid by the dressmakers for the spring gowns and the transportation had proved secure, America declared war, and the economy cry was ralsed. - The dressmakers and the shopkeepers who sell clothes had not had sufflclent time to resize a profit on their vast expenses for French gowns in March, and the majority of them decided, possibly unwisely, that they would hold sweeping sales in order to clear out whatever they had before economy brought about a crash in commerce. The shops were also compelled to pay their salaries during this troublous time, and they believed that they could do this more easily by holding sales. They would get cash, and they would keep the workrooms busy by alterations.

New Clothes for Quiet People. By the time a great many people who deal in women’s apparel considered themselves on the verge of nervous prostration through the strain of the spring, there came into the whole clothes situation a glimmer of fight that has broadened into a strong ray of sunshine. It has created optimism in all quarters. It came through war relief activities. That seems an astounding thing to have happened, but it is another phase of the proverb, “It is an ill wind that blows nobody good.” It makes an interesting chapter in the history of women’s apparel during the great war. Something similar to it happened in England, not in France,

These are lovely frocks for summer days. The first Is a lingerie of dimity and lace. The skirt Is trimmed In two sections, and the slim bodice has a wide Martha Washington kerchief of white. The small bows on the sleeves are of blue taffeta. The second is of silk with an odd skirt. The material is French blue faille, and the skirt Is plaited in an exaggerated manner to a tight-fitting bodice of white crepe which has wide Mandarin sleeves. The scarf is attached to the back of the waist and Is weighted with Jet tassels. The third is an apple green frock for open country. It is of georgette crepe trimmed with green and white checked silk. There is a deep white fichu that runs to the waist. The front of the coat Is slightly braided and trimmed with buttons and loops.

but the entire thing happened where it only could happen, in this tremendously prosperous country. The beginning of the war has been written in chapters of activity on this side and fighting on the other side. Literally, millions of women insisted upon doing their bit. The drive of the Red Cross, which was nationwide; the extraordinary grouping together of various units for sane and- Instant relief; the hospital work, the arrangement for providing comfort kits for the navy, the Teague work of rolling bandages, are merely a few of the dominant activities which interest women this -summer. , While those who are rich and fashionable have put their shoulders to the wheel with tremendous energy and enthusiasm, the appeal for workers has gone into the byways and hedges of social life. The summer, therefore, is a season to be filled with intense activity and a great, national grouping of women from every rank and file of human life on this continent, all met together under one flag. This extraordinary condition connecting the buying of new clothes and the doing of war relief work, appears to the apparel people in all the glory of an unexpected Christmas present. The city centers age humming .with

Women on every kind of errand bent, stopping at restaurants for lunch, shopping in the hottest days for new clothes to carry thfem through the appointments of the next month; and the sewing rooms of those who make their gowns at home are busy preparing the Increased number of blouses, skirts and underwear that this sudden call to arms has brought about. The government of the United States steps in also as a buyer of huge amounts. It is ordering clothes for the enlisted woman of the naval reserve force. Already it has asked for 1,000 blue serge suits, smartly made, 2,000 white cotton drill suits, 1,000 separate white skirts, 1,000 straw hats, and another 1,000 dark blue felt hats. Government Sets Styles. The tendency in all the new clothes is toward the silhouette adopted by the government for its enlisted women. Skirts are narrow and of reasonable length, blouses are simple, with wide turnover collars of lace or white wash material, and jackets are short and made on a mannish model, depending on the cut for distinction. Those who do not care for suits are fitting out their wardrobes with cotton frocks. Even at the smartest hotels in the heart of great centers, fashionable women are appearing in checked ginghams with broad straw fiats. This Is a fashion which has never been tolerated in the majority of great American cities. Such clothes have, always been kept for the suburban towns and the country, and when a woman found it necessary to go on the street of a great city during the heat of the day, she felt that tradition demanded that she subject herself to the discomfort of a suit. She preferred to pass away from moisture In a blue serge coat and skirt,then roam the streets in a checked cotton gown and white shoes. Now, the embargo on such costumery is lifted. The-only one costume which is comfortable and is yet taboo in city streets is the- separate skirt with the white shirtwaist. There must be a coat or wrap of some kind to cover the sharp juxtaposition of two fabrics and two colors. One of the great Western houses reports that it has been necessary to provide the greatest amount of frocks and suits for war work for women during this summer than ever before. The reason is the somersault in the summer regime. Women will not spend

their time these months ot hot weather as they have done for a century 1 . A ndtable maker of shirtwaist gowns, on whose books are the names of women who live in every state in this country, says that his workrooms are deluged and that his fittings telescope themselves throughout the entire day in' 15-minute appointments. He holds that the reason for this, in addition to the extraordinary number of clothes demanded by women for their new activities, is the reversal to the simplest form of warm-weather costurnery, which was onCe the habit of the simple-minded American people, before the extravagant ideas of chiffon, lace and hand embroideries came into being, via Europe. He makes a certain type of gown which Europe thinks Is the fatigue uniform of the American people, as the coat suit is the dress uniform. The skirt is plaited or gored, buttons down the front, and often has wide tucks from hem to knees. The bodice is laid in fine tucks or side plaits, or is quite plain. It has long sleeves, tightly buttoned cuffs and a wide muslin turnover collar. There are two belts. He is turning out these costumes by the hundreds, and one sees them on women at all she smart places. (Copyright, 1917. by the McClure Newepa per SyndlcaieJ c . -

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USES FOR FAMILY UMBRELLA

Mind of Woman Devises Two Ways In Which Rainstick .May Be Pressed Into Service. Two novel uses for an umbrella are told of in a recent issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine. The mind of worn-, an devised them both. Picnickers desiring to go In bathing are often handicapped by the lack of convenient places to change clothes. An umbrella and some paper muslin provides a light portable tent that is practical and inexpensive for such uses. Cut the dark paper muslin into as many nine-foot lengths as there are sections of the umbrella. Sew these strips together. At each seam tie a string about a yard long and a stout cord 15 feet long to the handle to hold up the tent. For use open the umbrella, Invert it and to each rib tie one end of the cord to the handle of the umbrella and suspend it from a tree or other suppbrt, weighting or tying down the other end. A clothes dryer that can be easily carried will appeal to travelers and persons living in small quarters. An umbrella, four yards of strong wrapping twine and several small brass rings are required. Knot the. rings into the twine at Intervals, measuring the distance between the rib points of the umbrella, and hook the twine to the points by the rings, providing considerable drying space for small articles. Hook the umbrella handle fiver a suitable support or tie it carefully to the supporting pipe of a light fixture in ther middle of the room, ready for the articles to be dried.

Might Happen Again.

Mrs. Euphemla Johnson was attended by a confidential colored friend of her own sex when the railroad company called her in to effect a cash settlement for the death of her husband, killed on his honeymoon. Mrs. Johnson had clouded her features with a heavy veil up to the time the corporation attorney had mentioned the sum, but when he produced the bills she threw back her badge of mourning and gazed eagerly on the bundle that flashed green and yellow in thick streaks. The lawyer withdrew after the signing of the release and the two were left alone. “ “Euphemla,” said the companion. “I suppose you’ll be gettin’ married again, now that you’re so rich.” Euphemla paused with a thick thumb »half-way to her mouth for moisture and reflection. “Es Ah do,” she observed before resuming the counting of the roll, “it’ll be some pusson on de Seabode Ayeh Line.”

That Was Different.

"I want,” said the grim-faced commander, “a dozen men who will give their lives to their country.” The entire regiment stepped forward. The commander selected twelve. "Now,” said he, “you are to hold this position until you are wiped out” “But we shall be killed !” quavered one. y “Dld you not volunteer to give your life to your country?” asked the commander sternly. “Oh, life I’ I thought you said, •wife!’” ■' - - — _ The man who looks out for difficulties will find two where he expected only one. . >• * —— St Paul Is to have a new fireproof $400,000 hotel of 800 rooms.

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