Henry Ford Hospital School of Nursing - Sonah Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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-6' 'll SONAH-27 1 WI f v TWO PROSE PDEMS The Harbor Should I want to linger, instead of endlessly sailing, I know of a harbor where no winds blow and where all is peace and quiet. There the sea is a cool, green mirror and amber lights burn by the shore. There I could best down my sails and rest in the friendly silence, but I must ever be sailing on the stormy sea in quest of something I know not- something strange and lovely which I am always longing for. F. A. I. In a Garden In a garden that I know, the flowers grow in the secret of a purple shadow and there are many trees whose leaves rustle when the wind is by. In the daytime, rays of sunlight slant across the tree trunksg later on the red of sunset flashes between the branches and still later the crystal stars are caught in the tangle of the leaves. Many flowers are hidden in the shadow and all that one knows of them is their fragrance which fills the air. One walks in this garden thinking of quiet and beautiful things, safe from wild longings after the unknown, from the questions that have no answer, feeling that those things do not matter after all and that the spirit of life lies here in the purple shadow. Very quiet and lovely is this garden that I know. F. A. I. Gilfiil REFLECTIONS Why must every thing we love Come to an end so soon? The fellowship that welve enjoyed, It was a Heaven sent boong And now we must face the world That to us seems hard and coldg But our dear old S. N. H. Will draw us to her fold. However we must sometime leave And take up life anew, Patterns of our own to weave, Our own life work to do. But Comrades all, do not forget Our good old training days, And happy days make happier yet In memory that with us stays. L. A. S. sf- of 131

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ll -' SONAH-27 l Nl , ,, , Autobiography of SelffExpression in Spelling I was born, or introduced by Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English Literature - into England some time after the race of goode fellowesn had vanished. I took like wild fire. Spenser used me moderately and Shakespeare was quite dependent, even if he wasn't positive about his own name. Later, of course, the people saw into what diflif culties they had gotten themselves. But it was too late, the publishers had gained control of helpless Me. I proved to be quite a problem. They found it necessary to have five or six helpers, reclining at ease as they ordered the publishing of edition after edition of spellers. Oh, but then was when I met my Waterloo. They started pinching me-governing me by rules-everything had to be according to ethics. So, through the past centuries my life has been going from bad to worse. I've met people whose spirits longed to express themselves in original orthography. Why, I have wondered, could not some of them establish a school of free spelling where I might again thrive? I believed that the solution might be found to rest on those potentates of the pubf lishing houseg the publishers themselves. It was to their interest to keep the rule clad spelling alive, because they derived a comfortable income from spelling books which they forced on an unwilling public. But because they believed that I had always been a stiff sort of being, they, like all absolute monarchs, hated a change. Every once in a while an energetic, courageous person tried to present the publishers with contributions which showed a certain pleasing personality in freefspelling, but it was in vain. Their efforts came back with a haughty rejection slip-or they were published with every one of those original little quirks in the spelling curbed and cast in the steel mold of good usage. During the nineteenth century I occasionally found a spirit willing to brave tyranny and opposition in order to do his bit toward the liberation of their struggling contempof raries and successors. But Victorianism caught these brave souls as it did everyone else, and they have, as a result, the spelling of today. Oh, for the return of the days when The Canterbury Tales were written, and when spelling was merely a good chance to display originality! But what can the general and Writing public do? The rule of the publisher is absolute, and unquestionable obef dience is exacted. So I must continue life-muted by all-yet not allowed to be myself, and alas! I soon expect to be only a thing of the past. E. S. Ill Ik Ik AN EXAMPLE OF INDIRECT QUESTIONING Rena: L'Ella, will you go over to Gym with me? Ella: UNO, I can't tonight. Rena: Well then, let me wear your shoes. ,f!6ail :,4a.'Y Y 130

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.f,. ll s . f SONAH-27 I 615.23 A- Y J uf . LAMENTATIONS OF A NIGHT NURSE Have you ever tried asleeping in the daytime? If you haven't you must try it just to see How the tiny little noises all around you, Are as magnified as magnified can be. First old L'Ella starts anoisily ascending, And I hear somebody ope' and close her doorsg She begins again her rise and fall unending, Taking passengers to all the different floors. Then some cleanly little body takes a notion, And begins a thorough cleaning of her room, Her ambish will then result in wild commotion, That is wrought with sweeper, dusting mop and broom. Next our Star will start the Vacuum agoing Nearer, closer, draws its loud incessant whirg Overhead an aeroplane comes low'ring, Now and then I hear its dull remittant purr. Do you wonder why the night nurse looks so haggard? Shaky limbs and circles under eyes. Do you wonder why she often plays the laggard? And in abstract manner she replies? Do you? M. E. S. Now Ask Me Some More QUESTIONS fAnswe'rs on Other Pagej 1. What noted Scotch physician was formerly a minister of the Gospel? 2. How quick is Stat ? 3. What peculiarity may be noted regarding Dr. Menagh's penmanship? 4. Who is Dr. Daub's assistant? 5. Why have precautionary nursing? 6. Of what material are Doctor's coats made and why? 7. Explain reason for mask in local tonsillectomy? 8. Where is 'iStrict isolationn? 9. What is technique? 10. What is the proposed eighth wonder of the world? 11. What is pedal hygiene and how treated? 12. What have the following in common: Dr. Nelson, Dr. Durman, Dr. Mac lvlillan and Mr. Schmidt? :JQE ,!'6?iJ 2,a.-Q.-X X 132