Identifier: storiesofbrother00hunt (find matches)
Title: Stories of brotherhood; a book for boys and girls
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunting, Harold. Bruce, 1879- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rt of the imi-f orm which Miss Nightingale had adopted. Howproud our nurses are to-day of their uniforms!It was Miss Nightingale who, through her effi-ciency and earnestness, made the uniform asymbol of helpfulness which is respected every-where. So at Scutari she set to work, using the knowl-edge she had gained during those twelve yearsof study. Inside of two weeks that dreadful denof dirt and horror and death was changed to alight, clean, and airy hospital, with spotlesssheets, good food, and clean dishes. The sicksoldiers were bathed and received their foodand medicine at the proper time. Miss Night-ingale had made the change. She had set everyone to work, doing just the things that neededto be done. She had worked twenty hours aday, going herself from room to room, often-times late at night, carrying her lamp and find-ing out whether everything was well with herboys. Lo, in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see, Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room.
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34 STORIES OF BROTHERHOOD And slow, as in a dream of bliss,The speechless sufferer turns to kissHer shadow as it fallsUpon the darkening walls. * After the war was over, Miss Nightingalecame back to England. She herself was sickand broken down from work and anxiety andfever. But the best part of her service for theworld was still to come. When the Eng-lish people heard that she was at home again,they almost went wild with love and joy, and agreat gift of money was raised to show hertheir gratitude. She would not accept themoney for herself, but used it to start a realtraining-school for nurses, the first in England.As the result of her wonderful influence andexample, people no longer looked down on thenurses work as something ^meniar* and *^com-mon. Other training-schools were started inall the large cities of Great Britain and Amer-ica and in all civilized countries, and splendidyoung women flocked to enter them. MissNightingale herself wrote books for them tostudy. The hospitals, to

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