nurses. For months after, almost every one I met took pains to
tell me that hereafter they would keep their young sons out of the
clutches of the designing nurse, and I doubt not, such slighting
remarks were borne by every nurse in town, and it was not
pleasant, to say the least of it, for any of us.

Keep your standards high. Let nothing but the very best satisfy
you, as far as you and your work are concerned. Keep your mind
well informed; if it is full of scientific facts, of skillful
methods, of good literature, or fine pictures, there will be no
room in it for the memory of all the disagreeable things every one
must encounter in one's work, and if you do not remember them, you
cannot tell others of them.

Finally, remember (and this lies at the root of it all) to keep
your hearts right,--ever thankful that you are permitted to pursue
this high calling, and ever striving to be more worthy of it, with
many prayers that your life and conduct may show, what is better
_lived_ than talked about, the grace and peace of God, which
verily do pass man's understanding.




IV

THE NURSE AND HER PATIENT'S FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND SERVANTS


Try to realize when you go to a house where there is dangerous