Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — AN APPEAL FOR NURSES. [ARTICLE]

AN APPEAL FOR NURSES.

Jasper county was asked for a small quota of nurses to care for our soldiers during their period of suffering and convalescence. Mulch to my surprise but a very small number responded. We have among us any number of young ladies who are eligible for this training. Why this lack of patriotism? Is it selfishness? Our brothers did not hesitate to meet all the mpst horrible conditions to secure safety for their mothers and sisters here. Why cannot we sacrifice a little? With our boys in danger there is little pleasure for our young ladies here, so why not for a short period of three years (some of our boys have already spent four- years on the battlefield) give over that time in their life to a course of study that wifi be beneficial to them all their lifetime. Sometime after the war and when the services of a urirse are not in such great demand as at present and you do not care to make nursing your life work, think of what you have gained. Knowledge that will be helpful in your home or at any place where emergencies may arise, you will not have to stand around helpless, but will be able tq take the place of the physician until his services can be secured. Life may be saved by you many times. When the boys return it will be the women that have made good that they will seek for their wives. When they think of the noble nurses across the sea, their strength of character, sweetness of disposition, endurance and unselfishness, that type will be their ideal of womanhood. These girls who have remained at home making fancy yokes and embroidery will have to take a back seat. After this war men’s ideals are going to change. Brace up and answer the call of duty. A TRAINED NURSE.