left blank are for such additional recipes as every nurse will
gather as she goes from house to house. Any cook will be glad to
give some hints as to how she does this or that, and no nurse
should be too proud to learn from the cook, or anybody else. I
shall never forget the fat little Irish woman who taught me to
make clam broth, or how much pride she took in my first success.
To ask the family cook for advice is sometimes good policy; she is
often so ready to resent any extra work caused by the sickness or
the nurse, it pays well to conciliate her, by asking for her aid
or counsel. To feel that she can teach the "Trained Nurse" will
often make a friend of the cook, and this will make things
pleasanter all around. It is with the hope that these homely and
perhaps somewhat old-fashioned hints may be of real service, that
this little book is sent forth to do what good it may to those who
are setting out on their professional careers. It is ever to the
young that we elders look, knowing, as Mrs. Isabel Hampton Robb
has truly said, "Work shall be lifted from our hands and carried
on to loftier ideals and higher aims by the strong young hands,
hearts and brains of future nurses." H. C. L.

Charleston, W. Va.




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