neatly, and the gain and comfort to the patient as
well as to the nurse, is incalculable. This also
would not be touched upon if my own recollections
did not supply me with so many instances, where
all this sort of care was considered to be
absolutely worthless, and yet sick people have remarked
afterwards how perfectly conscious they had been
of all such shortcomings, and how such and such a
tumbled cap, or shawl pinned on awry had been
like a nightmare to them. Beauty itself is never
more valuable than in a sick-room, and if laws
could be passed on the subject, I should like to
oblige all the pretty girls of my acquaintance to take
it in turn to do a little nursing. I venture to say
that no ball-room triumphs would ever compare
with the delight their possession of God's greatest
and best gift would afford to His sick and suffering
creatures. But a nurse may always make herself
look pleasant and agreeable, and if she have the
true nursing instinct, the ready tact and sympathy
which a sick-bed needs, she may come to be
regarded as "better than pretty" by her grateful
patient.
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THE SICK-ROOM.
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