Firland Sanatorium School of Nursing - Fir Log Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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- 'f' T S ' as--:FFL ,: 1 exotic plants together with full instructions for the tender care needed to make them flourish in foreign soil. Mabel Stauffacher is sometimes able to supplv Therese with a new find, for in her work of nature study with a camera she roams the wilderness of the world -the more untamed the better-she also takes sound-movies of animal life. NW e chanced to meet Mabel hiding in a bush on the Island of Tasmania waiting for a kangaroo to pass by for the purpose of getting a close-up. Anacortes is no longer a lumber mill town, but has become the most famous resort of the west. The cream of society flocks to the large hotels and leaves in a few months looking at least ten years younger, so that others hasten to discover this Fountain of Youth and find it to be located in the Beebe Beauty Parlors where Olive joy has become expert in not only erasing the ravages of time but completely remodelling poorly constructed features by her marvelous plastic surgery. In Spitsbergei where they were waiting for their submarine to he over- hauled, we interviewed the famous Glacier Nurses, Eleanor Pattee and Edith Morris. If you have read the accounts of their hrst venture to the North Pole you will note that in their eagerness to serve science they seem to have lost all regard for the luxuries they once thought indispensible. Eleanor now seems to regard sleep as a necessary evil!!! As for Edith Morris, her beloved chemistry has completely replaced her love of beautiful clothes and warm comfort. Now when she can spare a few minutes from her chemical analysis of sea-life she loves to take an hourls swim in the icy waters to freshen her mental faculties. Glance over our shoulders as we read in the f'Daily News of Strawberry Point, Iowa. Miss Elsie Jensen, world famed globe trotter, pleased a large audience at the Civic Auditorium here last night with descriptions of past travels. Though having OFFICE HOSPITAL I .- 39 - uw 4'-235550 E rug elses - ' If- . .1 Y' if-LL-445. , Y A,

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tiiitlfr' 'Jam' CM, raw! ' - 5 3 liiil 5: 'IIILIP of sight-seeing buses and is in great demand at some of the more famous of the resorts, such as those of the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, etc. It has been dis- covered that the tourists are attracted, not so much to behold the wonders of nature as to listen to the lady driver who regales them with interesting anecdotes, enhanced with romance all, even the most drab of the settings through which they ride. The exceptional psychic power which Grace Ring disclosed when at Eirland, fortune telling in tea-leaves, has led her to the crystal-gazing profession, and so acute have been her prophesies that even the diplomats of some of the leading courts of Europe have not disdained to ask her advice on important matters of state. For obvious reasons, she has asked us not to disclose her pseudonym or whereabouts. Eirland rejoices with Norway that another of her daughters has excelled all others and is said to haxe a voice equal to that of her countrywoman jenny Lind. Wfith 4000 others we heard Prudence Ulvestad in a new opera house in Seattle. She has revived the popularity of all of .lenny Lind's songs of the North with so great a success that King jazz has been forever dethroned. Doris Edwards is the wife of a country doctor in a peaceful New England valley. She and her husl'and are known and loved throughout the country-side for their kind hospitality and willingness to lend a helping hand to all. Besides performing her duties as an expert home maker and loving mother of four children she is always ready and willing to accompany her husband wherever a nurses help is needed. Therese Erickson we found pursuing an old hobby and making it pay. She has large greenhouses in Los Angeles where she specializes in the cultivation of rare and beautiful Howers, shrubs, and trees of all countries of the world. She supplies many a wealthy garden owner of the United States with strange and L A o 'A' 'L www TENNIS COURT - 38 --

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.4 xv ki Jil' 1 V -gli? 'A-Q 9 9f1ain: 0 1 . fer FEI? 45' E Z, 'Z' YY' 1 '-JE ' ' :-1iwfg.1.T3:-Siififfnfu WF? visited many countries, her most enthusiastic descriptions were of Seattle, Wash- ington, and vicinity. Since hearing her talk the majority are convinced that the Northwest coast must indeed be the ideal climate in which to spend the winter months. ldfilda Von Helms, we take off our hats to you as do the Mayo Brothers, who have actually chosen you, a hen-medic, as their protege in Pediatrics to carry on their work and maintain their high reputation after they must relinquish their places at the top of the profession. Marion Armstrong you will find still at Firland, where in her capacity of Night Superintendent, she has obliterated the night duty bugbear for the other nurses-so sweetly does her radiant personality illumine the night. I am afraid it will be a shock to you, as it certainly was to us, to discover Hilda Fisher, that model of meekness and shy reserve, in the role of Matron at Sing Sing. Wie were amazed to behold her disciplining the hard desperate char- acters and keeping the most unruly in order. Necessity has certainly disclosed a Hilda we didn't dream existed, although she became her old sweet self while we talked. We had come to Wfenatchee to visit the prize apple orchard of the west. As We strolled through the orchards watching the pickers, two apples were dropqped on our heads and a laughing face peeped through the branches above. VVho should l'e descending the ladder with her basket of apples but Barbara Sturgis herself- disguisecl slightly by a large sun lzonnet and a new name. It turned out that she and her husband owned the orchard and were as proud of their aipples as they were of their three charming children whom we found in the orchard making mud pies. Last winter we decided to see some of the beauties and absorb some of the sunshine at the beach in Miami, Florida. From other tourists we learned of the xr- 'W-'j . gum V N OFFICE HOSPITAL II .. . 40 1