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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 2, 1904)
- . J Day iU rti 02 r r 5 A ft in Mil J i I I J If Of JL 7 III V-y -1 f 3 V U7 X f f J f I I I ' -'t I Sil I i V 7 1 HA,,', 'I , i ,f, , i s- lTOX 5 s '; V t v if HE pretty nurse ta.now fairly Bhnrlng honors J with the distinguished physician In all of the I - I Tot! ta Is of America and Europe, t here Is no l JL 1 longer any question as to the curative effi ciency of a comely, sweet volctd, winsome trained nurse. The doctors admit It. Some of them go further. They say that the most acute diagnosis, the most skillful treatment. tho most concentrated attention for a male, patient are mere incidents as compared with constant nursing by a pretty, cheerful, magnetic nurse who knows her business. Bo widely recognized has the value of the pretty nurs become that she commands better pay from the start. She never lacks engagements, and the uoctors who are lucky enough to secure such assistance And that heir treatments Ki'ldora fail. To further Insure the dominant position of the A. r it 3 mm WW: M. w Ha i V & Jf I If I It ;' .' I mm Will h i lit ' .mi Wl ll il ill an Hi! m 1 m ( r i a mum i it till i in inn u T f fill lililll 111 llllKKiH B i :.v--. f Kill. 1 V v - i r 55- JL 1 11 1 1 1 "V ITY-i nwm rum srvi iwwwvm .iV J f w f w pulrhiitudlnous nurse, Blck men invariably show a preference for them. Old or young, married or single. comlAtants againm hopeleHs maladli-g or suffi ri-rs from temporary disa bilitl' H is all one so far as the sclctln of nurses goes. Next to physical beauty, muxlcal, low pltchtd, sympa thetic voices are the best equipments of the professional women nurses. Pretty Women Merry and Tender. What of dispositions? What of the woman of sanguine, merry, laughter loving temperament? To th(e questions there comes the answer; pretty women are almost Invariably merry; the feminine Joyful Is always sympathetic. So that It has come to be an accepted belief that in ninety-nine out of a hundred cases the pretty nurse is also low voiced, amia ble, sympathetic, and tender. A famous physician of Chicago, addressing this phase of hospital work, said: " In many, ways the influence of a beautiful woman In the sick room is phenomenal and even puzzling on ordinary grounds. There Is no use trying to explain It. hut the fa-t is so plain that no observant practitioner can evade it. Kor Instance: I have just discharged a patient who had been fVnj wTTfTrw1 ir"w y.. ,t:.k, 5h tinder my care for over a year. He was a morbid, melan choly man naturally. The nurse who helped me at tlrst wn. I believe, the most Intelligent, the most careful, and the best trained woman I have ever known. She never made a mistake; she never neglected an inxtructlon; she was al ways as punctual as a perfect clock. By close attention to every development of my patient's malady I was able to hold him always in a condition In which recovery was. theo retically, probnble. Mirthfulness Beats Experience. " Hut bis recurrent fits of depression undid moot of the work of my prescriptions. The faithful nurse, a homely but devotid worker, was suddenly Ciilli-d to Buffalo, where her mother had died. I was obliged to accept a pretty hut al most inexperienced girl In her place. This girl was of an ir represslbly mirthful, almost thoughtless temperament, and I had many misgivings about putting my patient in her hands. She did delay giving his nudicine a lew times and she was far from being as punctual as her predecessor. But my pa tient began to improve with marked rapidity from the day that she took charge. At first I flattered myself, thinking that it was my treatment that had at last started him upon the road to recovery. The old nurse came back and the young, cretty girl was withdrawn. Immediately my patient "relapse his fits of gloom returned, my medicine lost its efneacy. " One day he said to me: ' Doctor, would you mind pend ing back Doris.' I don't believe you can help me, anyhow, but I feel better when Doris is around. She's so Jolly, and I think she is pretty. Can I have her?' Rather to humor him than in any hope of bettering his condition I assigned my favorite nurse to another case and sent pretty Doris back to my star patient. The change for the better was almost Immediate. Medicines which had failed to accom plish the supposed results became effective. The man rallied and mi nded so rapidly that he was able to go home within two months. I attribute his cure almost wholly to the youth, beauty, and blithe spirit of that young nurse." Influence Seldom Sentimental. One of the most Insuperable olwtacles to the success of the pretty trained nurse is the objection which mothers and wives offer to their presence In the sick rooms of sons and husbands. But It is the experience of doctors that the good influence of the comely nurses is not essentially sentimental or romantic. Many pure love affairs and happy marriages have originated In the relations of the helpless, grateful, masculine patient with tht fair, merry, patient girl who nursed him back to life and strength, but in most Instances the influence of the beautiful woman nurse upon the pros trate patient Is one of genuinely impersonal and yet be nignant help. An old man, the victim of an incurable cancer, was re cently sent to a Chicago hospital to die as peacefully as skilled attendance and the constant application of narcotics and anaesthetics might Insure. His death was expected hour ly, but upon gaining the acquaintance and attention of an unusually pretty nurse he began to mend rapidly. Her sal ary was a week, and win n she received an offer of $.'10 she promptly announced to the management and to her pa tient that she would leave the place. The old man, never realizing that his nurse was prolonging his life, but well aware: that her society was a positl-e delight, proposed to add $: a week t- her wage s if she would remain. She agreed, and now her aged patient seems to be In a fair way to recover. At least, his torments have diminished and his doctors, like himself, are wondering at the Improvement in his situation. He has rewritten his will, and when he die his pretty nurse will share his estate with his sons and daughters. Homely Nurse Angers Patient. A south African Katlir millionaire was attacked In New York last winter with one of the maludies Indigenous to his home in the Hand. His wife and daughter In Ivondon, he was obliged to go to a heital, where he fell Into the hands of an experienced but extremely norm ly nurse. Ills constitu tion did not respond to the most expert treatment, and when he became delirious he frothed and raged violently against the ood oman who ministered to a I his wants. In the hope of quieting his apparently reasonless ravings a young and pretty nurse was substituted. The sick man, though ir responsible and incoherent, was pacified at once. He could neither see nor converse with his new attendant, but her mere presence soothed him. It was arranged that she should remain constantly at his side, snatching such sleep as she might during his intervals of quiet slumber. In two days the man's fever sulwided and he became rational. His former nurse was recalled, but though he knew her well and had always praist d her, he begged of his doctors to let the young,, pretty, inexperienced girl remain. The following week the man's wife arrived from London, and bo charmed was she with the girlish beauty and grace of hi r husband's nurse that she promptly offered to employ her as a companion at a salary twice as large us the hospital could pay her. In a fortnight the family set out for a tour of the Cnlted States. They sailed from Ban Francisco last week and the comely hosital nurse, with the wife and daughter of her patient, will make a tour of the world as one of the family of the man who thinks she saved his llf. So well u. der stood and appreciated Is the value of beauty in trained nurses that many of the most successful and popu lous hospitals of America and Enpland give comeliness In applicants the preference over experience. The doctors say that truly beautiful girls are almost Invariably amiable, cheerful, and sympathetic; anil that, while homely wo niHy be, and often are, more Intellectual, and even K0 gentle and tender, yet the baljnce In favor of mere ness is so greatly in favor the pretty nurse most be g baljnce in t i fie sick a gjrwii the pre nd the wounC preiurence. K y