South Highland Infirmary School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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I . 5 l i 5 The Old Dinner Napkin How dear to our hearts are the scenes of this table, Refreshment it brings when the daylight is going Wlieii fond recollections present them to viewg To use the old napkin were had for a week. ' The cold bread and butter, potatoes and roast beef, ' , , 2 The old grease-stained napkin. 1 1 The pitcher of milk and the apple sauce by it, The Old fmibstaiued napkin' The cinnamon buns and the coffee always. The junket, bread pudding and sugar dish nigh it, And e'en the old napkin we used seven days. And every loved dish that the training school knew. - The old mussed-up napkin XVe've used for a week. f How dear to our hearts are the years of our training. Wfhen working and scrubbing and tubbing went on: 2 The old grease-stained napkin, The old fruit-stained napkin, The old mussed-u na kin . . . . P P P And now far removed from this loved situation. And treading alone life's long, weary ways. Wfhen night duty called us. till pale morns were waning. And numerous milk-shakes were made in the morn. VVe used seven days. - To return to the old times will Drove a tem Jtation The cold ham and stewed fruit we hailed as a treasure, 1 I C T ' And e'en the old na kin we used seven davs For often at n10'ht when returned from the ward, P ' 6 I We found them a source of exquisite pleasureg The old grease-stained napkin, The days when the work had been irksome and hard, The old fruit-stained napkin. Q How ardent we seized them with hands that were glowing, The Old mugged-up napkin i And sausage and fried eggs abundantly ateg 'rye used Seven days. ' s 1 , 4 E ii 9 40

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"The Land of Mananan So the Isthmus of Panama was called until the Americans took possession, with their energetic, progressive ways. To-day the same spirit of Ngo-a-headness," the feeling of being part of a stupendous undertaking, prevails everywhere. At headquarters of the Sanitary Division of the Isthmian Canal Commission, on the side of .Xncon Hill, is situated the hospital, commanding an extensive view of the canal, from the entrance at llalboa fthe Pacific endb, to the Mira Flores lock, the llay of Panama, with its many islands and the moun- tains. Up-to-date in equipment, management and technique, and in beauty of situation, the second in the world, it accommodates sixteen film hundred patients and gives work to four hundred employees, not including the hundred graduate nurses. Every nation in the world- lslindos, Scandinavians, Sicilians and Catelonians, Russians and Chi- nese, Armenians and Turks, Arabians, Greeks, Negroes from the adjacent islands, native Indians-all are to be found there at work, and some time or other End their way into the hospital. One may readily judge that life is none too easy with so many to be cared for, and like the Shop Girl in the story, we have many times said, "Thank Ciod for lyings down: thank God for taking oil shoes." Too tired for more. The "Repair Shopu NVhat would we do without needle and knife? Nux vonnca cocktails and elixir of life? For acute ".eXppendicitis" or lack of ".Xppetitisg', ltis such a boon to all "llu1nanitis." So we listen to woes, lleal crushed lingers and toesg Mend dislocated parts, DDD l'atch broken C . . .3 hearts. Some day from these walls we'll escape, 'lio put the world in better shape: Picture us under the "phone" in the hall, XYith suit case all ready to answer first call. Y V, V, Mmgf- V -Trip Y .P .. ,1A.,.,. K M . IV V 1--N -0- . -- , V - -.---lf-.. . ., ,- ,,--,-.,-..,4.-....fwF.,,...,,..,.--.-..,, , Y, ,,