Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1920 — Rann-dom Reels [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Rann-dom Reels

By HOWARD L. RANN

THE TRAINED NURSE. THE trained nurse is a ministering angel who is hired to let other people sleep. There are two people who have proven, that the world would be better off if sleep had never been invented. One of them is Thomas A. Edison and the other Is the bright-eyed trained nurse who can sit up all night for a week and look as fresh as a plate of home-grown lettuce. Mr. Edison trained nurse who is accustomed to sit bolt upright for weeks at a stretch without uttering a blink of any kind.

There is nothing‘more soothing than the entrance of a graduate nurse and has not used any sleep to speak of in his business for years, and his close friends and associates say that when he feels any coming his way he holds his head under the cold water faucet until the attack passes. When a nervous, high-strung Business man comes down with an ulcerated tooth which hangs on like a onearmed man at a club dance he refuses to allow any sleep to enter the house, thus making it necessary to engage a her soft-roll shirt waist Into a home from which sleep has been banished by un able-bodiedhusband who has the galloping toothache and wants everybody in the block to know it. This enables a wearied wife to drop at full length

Into a leather chair and sleep until she has a crick in the neck which follows her around for several days. The trained nurse Is obliged to obey the doctor’s orders and feed the patent medicine and run a spirit thermometer down his throat at regular intervals. As the average patient, particularly of the male sex, soon develops a temper that would raise blisters on a tin roof, she is obliged to mix tact with the medicine and sometimes a little brute force. It must be admitted that the trained nurse earns her money and gets it.

"A nervous, highstrung business man with an ulcerated tooth which hangs on like a one-armed man at a club dance."