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little taller than I am and has brown eyes. There is only one thing that he loves better than me and that is fishing! How is it that we got together what with him living so many years in so many far away places and me living practically as many years and always being in some other places? That is the kind of stuff books are made of and I haven’t had time to write the book yet. Could be that when I have no more test papers to mark and no more Year Book contributions to write, when I am keeping house in Memphis, Tennessee, and have the menus all planned (I will have to learn ways to cook fish—where is my friend Skremetka?) and the house all home-like and the garden all flourishing, that I will have some free afternoons to write a book. As I understand it the wisest course is to write a book about things you know, so any book I wrote would have to be about Kildonan and the University of Manitoba and Brooklyn and Chicago and the Winnipeg General and St. Boniface and being in love. You won’t have to read the book because the first part you have heard all about often and the last, you would be much better to try for yourselves. I am putting in an order to have the Year Book sent to me till at least 1950 so I can graduate everybody that is here now. My very best wishes go with this year’s graduates and all the graduates in the making. Sincerely, GRACE SPICE. G Q AS SEEN BY A PATIENT A hospital is a collection of corridors and stairs supported by slippery floors and contributions. A ward is a room attached to a corridor. It contains nurses, beds, patients and fresh air in large quantities. A bed has longitude but no latitude. Its real duty is to beautify the ward. To disarrange a bed is a criminal offence. It is a far, far better thing to have a tidy bed than to be comfortable. A patient is the victim of circumstances—-a conspiracy between doctors and hospital authorities. After he has bided awhile—he realizes why he is called a patient. A nurse is essential for the proper running of the ward. Her chief duty is to watch patients in order to wake them when asleep. The medicine cupboard contains brandy and castor oil—tremendous quantities of each are used. The brandy is used to camouflage the castor oil and it is also used as a restorative when patients feel faint! Patients are never allowed to feel faint! Night commences when blinds are pulled down; day commences when the night nurses have finished their midnight meal. Old patients sleep in the daytime—it is quieter. Lockers are a hospital version of dining room sideboards always placed so that a patient cannot get at them, and really pro¬ vided to gratify the nurses’ curiosity. Lockers do not lock. 24
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are we ll Q Ylessage from Mi ss Spice Maybe it is a little late now to talk about “Aims and Objectives” but I have had some in the four years I have been at St. Boniface. I feel like telling them to you because you better than anyone can tell if I have achieved them. I have tried to make learning the basic sciences as easy as possible, as enter¬ taining as possible and as useful as possible. I have tried always to give you warn¬ ing of tests and things but I know this has not always worked out. I have tried to be the same from day to day so you would know how to take me. I have tried to remember what it is like to be a student nurse and to under¬ stand how you are living. I have tried to act as a liaison officer between you and the outside world, par¬ ticularly the world of scientific advances, because I know that you don’t have time to keep up on everything. While working toward all these aims and objectives I have never resisted the desire to tell you about important things in my life. You know that my Mom and Dad are very special people to me. (I like the Dedication of your Year Book.) You know that my older sister is a nurse in New York, and a good one, and that she was my main support while I was in training. You know that my oldest brother practically runs Flin Flon and has a wife who likes to entertain her in-laws, thank goodness, and two awfully nice children. You know that my younger sister lives at home and works in Eaton’s and gets me white stockings from the Mail Order. You know that my next brother, the one who was in Africa, is the metal¬ lurgist at Port Radium and is married to a very nice person and has a daughter. And I think you know that my next brother, Don, was lost on a training flight over Scotland in January 1945. Some of you knew him because he was on Normant for a few days before he went into the R.C.A.F. with an infected finger and he used to come for me in the Nash quite often. My youngest brother is at home going to University and he sometimes came for me too. That was before we (sob) sold the Nash. And you know Isobel Black who lives with me. Or maybe I live with her. Anyway we live together, and like it. So you know most of the important things in my life and that rumor you hear is true. I am going to be married. When? At the time of writing I can’t answer that one. Where? Same answer. Who to? Ah! That’s different. A man from out of this world. Well, practically anyway. He’s from Tennessee and now that he is out of the army he is back in his job with a transportation company. Yes, he is older than I am by a few years. No, he hasn’t been married before. He is a little darker and a 23
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