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i The day before the Chr1stmas party at Wendover last year
fl the rain poured down outside while we, cozy on the inside,
y; watched the river rise higher as our hopes of a large attendance
r at the Wendover Party sank lower. The Wendover Nurse had
} X finished packing the bags for the families in the district.
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  That n1ght the secretaries, couriers, maids, and the night-
i watchman decorated the recreation room which also serves as
the drying room of the laundry on week days. Its bare rock
· walls and painted round iron supports were decked with Holiday
{ i·inery—red crepe paper streamers, silver tinsel, red bells, and
I hemlock bows which had been trimmed from the huge Christmas
, tree that iilled a corner of the room.
I There were only a few scattered clouds overhead the morn-
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ing of the party. By nine o’clock many of the children and  
several of the parents had found some way to cross the swollen Yi!
creeks,—maybe a firmly anchored foot log or stepping stones-  
and were gathering in the recreation room.  
The first children to arrive were those who were to take li
part in the Nativity Pageant which has become a tradition at i
Wendover. Weeks before Christmas the children come asking `
when the first practice will be held. There are the three angels, _
the cutest and most unpredictable. This year only two were  
visible to the audience but the third was on the stage. There  
are the three wisemen who are always having difficulty keeping  
their sashes and crowns in the proper place. There are the  
three shepherds, Joseph and Mary, and the baby (a doll) in  
the manger. $ I
The children who took part in the pageant were costumed  
in one of the offices and stood waiting their turn to appear on  
the stage. Suddenly, who should appear among them but SANTA ig
CLAUS—fifteen minutes early! There were devastating effects  
as the wisemen and shepherds forgot their dignity and burst Y
forth with giggles. Finally, calm was restored and they marched  
on the stage with almost the proper gravity. ‘  
The star of Bethlehem moved across the stage on a string i
pulley operated by one of the older boys from behind the door.  
Something happened to the string and the star dropped lower il
and lower as it crossed the stage almost falling into the manger. i i
The story of the Nativity is always read by Mrs. Breckin- i  
ridge as the children portray it on the stage. The pageant is l
interspersed with the appropriate carols sung by a chorus of ff
young folk who have come to Wendover many Saturday after-  
noons before the party to rehearse the carols. 3{
After the pageant there was an expectant hush. Then, in Y,
the hall came Santa with a pack on his back, and bells jingling. T
The audience burst forth enthusiastically with "Jingle Bells."  
Santa made the important announcement that there was some- fi
thing for every child up in the clinic waiting room, and that il
there were refreshments for everyone before going upstairs.  
The cocoa and cookies were served by the couriers and secre-  
taries from the railing of the furnace room. Warmed with the  
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  cocoa and excitement the children lined up more or less alpha-  
  betically and waited on the porch of the first floor of the Garden j
  House for their family name to be called. There were the Ashers, ·
l the Bowlings, the Muncies, Morgans, Woods, et cetera. `
g* They waited their turn, faces glowing with joyous anticipa- {
  tion. One small, sweet-faced girl looked up and said, "I hope ,
_ Santa has a doll for me." I fervently hoped that she would be ·
4 one of the lucky little girls who would find a doll in her Christ-
§_ mas Bag, but I knew there hadn’t been enough dolls to go i
$2 around, and that the nurse had tried to give the dolls to the I
  little girls who had never owned a doll of their own. -
I j There are some 300 children in Wendover District. All 300
  of them were not at the party, of course, but some member of
Q I most every family attended and carried the Christmas Bag home
  to other members of the family. You could never predict what ·
  a child would do when he got his bag filled with gifts for all the_
lf children in the family. Sometimes he would go through the door
y quickly and once outside open everything in the bag. Others
  would still be holding their bags tightly and proudly shut as
M they went through the Wendover gate on their way home.
  As the last of the children disappeared down "Pig Alley"
¢ _that day, Santa, the nurse, couriers, and secretaries breathed
F a very weary but happy sigh. The whole affair was discussed
ti and chuckled over at a belated lunch table, and we wondered
, X who had enjoyed it most——the children or the staff at Wendover.
i , Reprinted from To Dragma
Q I Fall 1947 issue
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  THE ANCIENTS WERE BUSY TOO!
  We are so fond of asserting that we are busy. "Life is so complicated
` nowadays," is constantly heard. Will the people of the present day be
’ prepared to believe that this has been the cry all down the corridors of
,; time? Yet many proofs can be given. Isocrates, the great Greek orator,
?.‘ presenting a case before the Athenian citizens twenty-five centuries age,
I, apologized at the outset in these words: "I know, O men of Athens, that
:_ this is like to be a long and tedious case. So taking into consideration the
1 fact that the times have become so busy and complicated that you cannot
  be expected to give your time to all the details, I have summarized the
pj great body of evidence and present you only with the salient points,"
Q —Light, London
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Two Generations of Babies She Has Brought into the World % i
Nineteen years ago Betty attended the birth of the young woman  
shown in this picture with her husband. In Betty’s arms is their baby boy, ._
also attended at birth by Betty, at whom she is looking with a most
understandable glance of affection. Betty says that now she is really and  
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THE INCENTIVE TO WORK‘  
By T. M. Heron qi
Put a healthy new—born baby to its mother’s breast and straightway "
it begins to work for its living. Maroon an able-bodied man on an unin—  
habited island and without much ado he will set his wits and energies to -  
work to provide his body with the food and shelter it requires. God has _.
endowed each of His creatures with an instinctive will to labour for the  
sake of its own survival. And He has set them in a world which always E
provides natural inducements and compulsions to ensure survival by stimu- ‘;
lating appropriate activity. This activity we call WORK. i
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EVA M. GILBERT, R.N., s.c.M., M.A. »
ii (Helen Draper Ayer Memorial Nurse) i
` Written in 1939 from the Margaret Durbin Harper Nursing Center ,
1 Bowlingtown, Perry County, Kentucky `
  . A WEEK , §
  Sunday, January 15, 1939 i
  Dearest folks: I
  S0 much has happened this week that it seems a month.
if On Monday I arrived home from my pleasant and refreshing H
  week-end at Wendover. On Tuesday Miss Fox, the relief nurse,
  went on to Brutus where she was to relieve another nurse for a l
  week, while I started out on my day’s work.
IL I had two very sick cases to see, one a young man of twenty-
E= two years who was having severe nose bleeds and a very sore
g· throat. I had urged the family to take him to see a specialist _
i  at Hazard but no, they must wait to see if he became better. He ,
  kept getting worse and finally the family came for me at mid-
—‘ night Thursday. They said Ted was begging to be taken to
  Hazard and would I come over and help get him ready for the
  trip, which was to be made to Chavies by car and then by train
if to Hazard. Of course I went and didn’t get back to bed until
‘~‘ 4:15 A.M. Ted became steadily worse and died Friday about
  5 P.M.
ih On the same Tuesday I had a sick call to Mark, a iive-year-
'_` old boy who had all the symptoms of severe pneumonia. His
{ temperature was 104.6 degrees the first time I saw him. I have _
fl paid him a daily nursing visit (twice one day) and his tempera-
  ture has been up to 105.6 degrees. I do not see how he has con-
ii tinued to live with such a high fever for six days. We got the
  doctor Friday morning and he said it was pneumonia for sure.
A   I have kept thinking Mark would"have a crisis each night. Yes-
ll terday he seemed a little worse and then this morning a little
  better. So I do not know what tomorrow will bring.*
  =*= A subsequent letter t0ld hOW Mark did get well. HOW different the course
  of pneumonia today, 1947, with penicillin available!
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Two couriers came down the trail from Brutus Thursday Ԥ
evening. They expected to go on the next day to Wendover, but  
a rain raised the river and it was past fording till today, so they  
had to stay on here. However, I did not give them an idle `
moment during Friday and Saturday. When the doctor went to  
_ see Mark Friday I had to go along, of course, and the couriers '
wanted to go too so, with Mrs. Will Gay, we all set out for 4
Turkey Branch. j,
We were taken across the high water of the river in a row- E
boat, getting a mule on the other side for the doctor to ride while  
the rest of us walked. It was raining and Turkey Branch, usually  
quiet, was rushing madly. We had a bad time getting across the Q
creek at several places and so finally, we just walked right   V
through it, as our boots were already soaked. On the way home   .
I slipped and fell into the cold water and, in doing so, lost my  
sweater which I had taken off. I called for Betsy to catch the &·|
sweater as it went past her. Then she herself slipped and fell  
into a hole. The result was that we were both soaked to the  
waist, but walking soon warmed us enough so we did not feel  
cold. After we got back at the center we spent the rest of the  
day getting three outfits of clothes dry before the open fireplaces. I
The soaked boots had to be dried gradually or they would be f
too stiff to put on.  
On Saturday the couriers and I walked over the same trail  
to see Mark. By this time the rain had stopped and the creek,  
no longer swift and deep, was low enough to be crossed on step-  
ping stones.  
Today has been as busy as any week day, for of course I  
had to see Mark again, as well as another child who had been Yt
reported to be "bad off." I found this three—year-old with no  
‘ _ fever or increase in pulse rate and with a history of having had L
a "fit." I suspected it was caused by worm infestation, as he ·_
had been vomiting all night and morning. Instructions were ii
left for the mother to worm the child as soon as possible. By lt
today the river had gone down enough for the couriers to ford ,
at Elkhorn on their way to Confluence. After lunch I went with I
them to point out the best place to ford the river, and then on  
to Shoal where I picked up a package containing nineteen pounds 5
of beef which one of the Confluence nurses had been able to buy  
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  for me. I am very glad indeed to have it and will can as much as  
  possible so as to have it when I am unable to get fresh meat. Q
I That often happens when one lives so far from a meat market.
J Always yours,  
  EVA  
l ANOTHER WEEK i
f   Sunday, October 15, 1939 ?
  Dear folks, `
  This has been a busy week, with something happening I
  almost every day. On Monday I had a long day of travel on the
  district, getting back about 4 P.M. I was here hardly five min- “
{ ' utes when I received a call to a patient who was having a mis-
EY carriage. After seeing her I found it necessary to take her to
  Hyden Hospital and our Medical Director as soon as possible.
{ After I had the patient ready, we started for the nursing center
.Q] here at Bowlingtown. We arrived about 6 P.M. to find I had four
  guests. I could stop only long enough to change my clothes, as .
  I was to ride in the back of an open truck and needed warm, dry ~
. things on. I also called the doctor at our Hospital to report the »
— patient’s condition and tell about when we expected to arrive.*
L Etna put some supper in a pie tin for me to eat on the way. I
gf knew I couldn’t wait to eat, for even thirty minutes might make a
  lot of difference to the patient. r
  At the center we put the patient on one of our cots and ,
gi A placed it in the back of the truck. I sat in the back with her
i and, while it was quite cold, we had plenty of blankets so kept
  warm. We arrived at Hyden Hospital in two and one-half hours
» O (40 miles). After helping the patient to bed I went to the living
i   room where Madge Tait brought me coffee and scones. I enjoyed
_‘ them while the driver of the truck was repairing an inner tube
5; which had caused trouble, by a slow leak, on the way in. We left
{ Hyden at 10 P.M,, arriving home at 11:50, very tired but resting
in the knowledge that the woman was now under the expert
  care of Dr. Kooser and the hospital nurses.
  The next morning at the nursing center I had breakfast
{ with the guests. After getting them off I left for Leatherwood V
Q _  s telephone connection between Hyden and Bowlingtown in 1939.
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school, where I was to give a large number of people their sec-  
ond typhoid inoculations.  
The week before I had bro