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t "DEATH CAME PEACEFULLY TO THE KING . . . "
K “Th0ugh God has raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown:
that I have reigned with your love."—Queen Elizabeth.
A good man who fills an exalted station with modesty and
"` wisdom is a world citizen. His death is a world sorrow. Among
iq — the English speaking groups deeply affected by the death of the
King the Frontier Nursing Service, because of the loyal British-
, ers in its ranks, because of the unending kindnesses showered
Z upon its beginnings by the mother country, because of its many
Empire guests, this young organization in the international
I family of good will has a treble reason for uniting in homage
to the King’s memory, with its British friends.
From among the books and papers we have received since
the King’s death we have chosen selections from the article
in the British Journal of Nursing—an article which was to us
the most moving we read.
. "Preaching at St. Paul’s the Dean, Dr. W. R. Matthews,
said: ‘King George’s reign was a period when crisis succeeded
crisis with bewildering rapidity .... He was called to play
a part of unexampled difficulty, where no precedents existed,
and he played it greatly .... He had grace and humility.
” . . . The simple pleasures of home and country life were
his .... He set a constant example of simplicity of life
amid regal state, and of devotion to the public service}
_‘ "The Archbishop of Canterbury, in closing his address at
Westminster Abbey, asked of those present two things: The
first: ‘to recover simplicity of life . . . let service come be-
fore self. Prove in your own lives what King George proved
in his: that simplicity is strength.’
F "The second: ‘to recover remembrance of God. . . The
I haste and hurry and distraction of life infects the soul—we have
. no time to stop and think, and God is crowded out. Yet it is
t sternly true that without some inner hold on God within, neither
{ man nor nation can be stable and str0ng.’ "
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THE FIRST BATHTUB
Adam Thompson, of Cincinnati, is credited with having Hy
the first known bathtub in America. During a business trip to iii
England he was introduced to the English way of bathing. On
his return to America in 1842 he decided to make a bathtub
big enough to contain his entire body, and to be Hlled by a
tank instead of by hand. He built a tank in the attic of his home, -
pumping water into it from the family pump. Pipes for hot
and cold water led to the bathtub, the one for hot water coiled A
within the length of the chimney, through which hot air and
smoke from the kitchen range passed. {
The tub was seven feet long and four feet wide and deep
enough to hold the plumpest of persons. It was built of ma~
hogany and lined with sheet lead. On the first Christmas Day Q
after installation of the tub, Mr. Thompson gave a bathtub A
party, all the men present trying out the wonderful invention.
This party was featured in many of the newspapers and created
a sensation. =
Members of the medical profession fought the idea with
warnings that the practice was dangerous to the health, and ,
state and city governing bodies passed laws prohibiting and dis— A
couraging the use of bathtubs. The State of Virginia passed a .·.
law taxing owners of bathtubs $30 a year. In Boston a law
was passed which was in effect from 1845 to 1862, forbidding (
one to take a bath except on advice of a physician. The cities i
of Providence, Hartford, and Wilmington put a high water tax
on buildings that contained bathtubs, and in Philadelphia a law ,
was proposed making it unlawful to bathe between November 1 —
and March 15. This failed of passage by a margin of two votes.
——Frontier Times A.
Quoted in St. Luke’s Alumnae Bulletin.
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THE SPEECH AND MUSIC OF
i THE MOUNTAIN EERS
‘ ` Mrs. Frederick Watson of Llanfechain, Wales, and Milton
ii, Abbas, England, has sent us the notes used by her late distin-
,.;j· guished husband in his lectures on the Kentucky mountains. He
. developed this lecture, with slides, after his visit to the Frontier
Nursing Service and to Berea. We wish we could have heard
. him give the lecture with his own inimitable charm. The bits
· we quote will be of special interest to our readers as showing
how much a cultivated mind is impressed by the speech and
singing of our mountaineers.
1 FRoM FREDERICK WATsoN’s NOTES
Mr. Sharp and many less skilled observers have been fas-
cinated by the old English words and phrases so quaint to
modern ears which are still used by these isolated mountain folk,
l long after they have been dropped in England itself. One some-
- times hears Chaucerian plurals, "textes," "nestes," etc. "Hol-
pen" suggests the King James Bible. "Mistress" instead of
"Mrs." by an old woman who exhibited fifteen patterns of
hand-made quilts. A farmer-host talked of "gentling" his lambs.
` A little ailing boy kept urging "Tell me a tale" as it grew dusk
or, as one mountain woman put it very sweetly, "when the sun
f ball drapt behint the mountain."
, , Like Chaucer’s "Clomb" they speak of "clum" for "climbed." ‘
E Spencer’s "drug" for "dragged," "holp" for "helped." ’
{ Like Milton a man calls a cow "contrarious," and with Lady
Macbeth prefers "afeard" to "afraid."
V He "faulted" her for "scolded" her.
· I’ve been very "throng" today is from Scottish usage.
"They git up afore day to git a soon start," is reminiscent of
Shakespeare’s "Make your soonest haste."
E "That baby’s plumb purty and hit’s as pleasant as the
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"They dug into an Indian grave and found a master pile
of bones."
For "it" the Chaucerian "hit" is used. k .
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phrases like "The children pranked with the dog." m
Singing is as common and almost as universal as speaking. A
To us who regard singing as a special study the natural faculty
is almost lost. We do not sing at our work or play. But in olden
days as in the Highlands of Scotland there were songs for oars- K,
men, for the harvest, for weddings and funerals, and all activi-
ties of a farming community. It is even more prevalent in Ken-
‘ tucky. But let me point a distinction here. The songs are not
ephemeral and rather insipid like those of the cowboy, being
of recent origin, but deeply nourished in oral tradition and
‘ long acquaintance. J
Our Summer Issue »
The Summer number of the Quarterly Bulletin will be pub-
lished and mailed this year, and from now on, in the early part _
of June. The statisticians are preparing fascinating graphs in
order to give pictorial significance to the annual figures. We C
don’t want our regular readers to miss this Summer issue. If _
anyone is leaving home in June and will send us his temporary
address we will have his copy of the Bulletin mailed him there. g
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New Y0rk’s Bean Crop I
Old mountain lady, to guest of the F. N. S., travelling up N
to the mountains: "Where did you come from ‘?"
Guest: "From New York."
Old lady: "Did they have a good bean crop up there?" j
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l— A NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION
v» We have read with profound interest an admirable study
Q sent us by the Canadian Welfare Council called "Need our
Mothers Die?" It is a publication of 143 closely printed pages
and we have read nearly every word in it. We note with special
, interest, under a suggestion for demonstration areas, that one
. such demonstration be located in a typical "outpost" settlement.
Canada has many of the frontier features characteristic of these
United States and their territories. Of one thing we may be
sure, in whatever province such a demonstration is located in
Canada, the purpose of the demonstration will be to work out
_ in one frontier section a solution for the problems presented in
- all frontier sections. `
l In this connection we want to remind the friends of the
Frontier Nursing Service that during the past eleven years they
i have provided the funds for a national demonstration in the
Kentucky mountains. We are often asked, "Why the Kentucky
mountains ?" And the answer is, "Why not?" A national dem-
onstration, unless it is to be a theoretical and not a practical
thing, can’t be worked out in mid-air. It has to be located some-
‘ where. Through the generous cooperation of the Kentucky State
, Health Officer, Dr. A. T. McCormack, and the medical profes-
sion in Kentucky; through the profound interest of a little group
of Kentuckians who first conceived the plan of a national dem-
A onstration and were able to contribute its first financial as-
» sistance; because of the peculiarly wild, remote and isolated ·
· areas in the Kentucky mountains which made such a demonstra-
i tion there as physically difficult a thing as in any frontier coun-
` try in the United States; and, lastly, because of the high native
intelligence of the leading mountain citizens and their ardent
A interest; for all of these reasons a section in the Kentucky moun-
tains was chosen for the national demonstration.
The demonstration has been national from the beginning,
i supported within its first two years by groups in New York,
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New England, Cincinnati, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and other T;
sections, as well as in Kentucky. It is designed, primarily, to ‘
solve remotely rural problems of maternity, infancy and dis- ”
ease, in relation to social and economic environment; and, sub-
l sequently, to train personnel to carry this cabin-and-saddlebag _'
technique to other frontier areas, from Porto Rico to Alaska,
including the Indian Reservations. The most moving thing in _
this whole project to the Trustees of the Frontier Nursing Ser-
vice is the fact that more than 2,000 Americans realized that "
here at last was a practical way in which they could do some- * _
thing about the problems of isolated maternity, infancy and `
disease. As is always the case, we found that the most alert and
liberal people in this movement were those who were tackling V
the same problems in their own localities. These are the people
whose imaginations grasped and whose hearts responded to
the appeal of the isolated and the lonely, far from the centers
of wealth and infiuence.
We are eager to get on with our training end, now that we
have satisfactorily demonstrated a saddlebag-and-cabin tech-
nique to meet the needs of frontier countries. On the one hand,
we are both humbled and proud that during our first ten pioneer
years, six of them depression years, we have had support suffi-
cient to keep our heads above water, although barely that. On
the other hand, we are impatient for the day when our field of
work will be sufficiently supported to enable us to open our vast
laboratory as a training field. This would be possible if we A .
could double our Service members_hip, especially now that our
endowments are increasing. If every one of our friends will
each year secure one more new friend, without our having to
go to the expense of a personal solicitation, if those who can 3
afford it will begin to build up endowments now, the blessing for
America’s isolated and rugged frontiers will soon be calculable . .
in our national economy.
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i IN MEMORIAM
v' “F'eed them in a green pasture, beside the still waters, in the garden of
l delight, the place when soreheartedness and sorrow and sighing have
<%· fled away, in the light of Thy Saints.”—Coptic Liturgy.
W KATE LEE HOLLOWAY ALEXANDER
ii` (Mrs. Alexander J. A. Alexander)
l of "Woodburn," Woodford County, Kentucky
1881-1936
This dear friend of our early beginnings, this loyal-hearted,
kind and charming woman, this self-efacing life, is now en-
folded in the larger life God holds in store for us all. Our deep-
est sympathy goes out to her two sons, her kindred, and to each
and all of us who had the ties of friendship with her. Kentucky
will long mourn her as it mourned her gallant husband, and her
memory will be fragrant among us as spring iiowers in the
morning.
` DWIGHT CLARK, of Washington, D. C.
Died December 26, 1935
This regal soul, this warden of beauty, in the arts and in
A life, this descendant of old New England stock, of which he was
both iiower and fruit, has in his passing left for his wife’s mem-
J ory, and ours, certain expressions that hang together poignantly
in the facing of Reality. To this loved wife, for so many years .
· 2 our close friend, in Washington, he confided in his last hours of
anguish, "I wish there were some way of doing away with pov-
erty." But his last words, when facing the Illimitable, were: "It
is so beautiful, so beautiful, so beautiful." At the gates of death
we leave him, those wide-open gates, where the want and misery
of the world stand to meet their ultimate solution. Eleven hun-
· dred years have passed since an old Saxon mystic said: "Thou
art the highest Good and from Thee all beauty springs."
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MRS. SARAH JANE CHAPPEL, of Hyden, Kentucky
Died February 18, 1936
This exquisite and beautiful old life drew to its close amid
, the snows and ice of the hard winter. If we were asked to draw ,
A a picture as symbolic of the good neighbour I think we would _
all have drawn Aunt Jane. From the day, twelve years ago,
when we rode up, a total stranger, to her old log house at Chap- QUT,
pel, in the heart of the mountains, 40 odd miles, horseback, from
A the nearest railroad, and she opened her hospitable doors and
welcomed us, on down through the years after she had moved in
to Hyden, and the last day we called on her, she has been abenig-
nant and a gracious influence in the lives of many. She told
us early in the winter that she had turned eighty and was liable Q
to die, and gave us as an everlasting keepsake a linsey woolsey
quilt which she wove in her girlhood, its gorgeous indigo blue
from the native dyes unfaded after more than sixty years. Many
times sixty years must come and go before a life of such hidden
beauty as hers will fade in its influence on the generations com-
ing after.
CHARLOTTE ALTON GOODWIN
(Mrs. Howard Goodwin, of Hartford, Connecticut)
Died March 3, 1936
Again we mourn the loss of an old and valued friend, the I
Secretary of our Hartford Committee—that lovely and kind ",
Charlotte Goodwin, who fulfilled in all public and private rela- ‘
tions the duties of good birth and breeding. Her life history is a ,
long record of work for less fortunate people than herself. From
her sheltered girlhood, on through her happy married life and
radiant motherhood, she soaked up the well of gladness as a `
source with which she might gladden the lives of the arid and f
the desolate. Her father, her husband, her children, have our
deepest sympathy in their overwhelming grief. Her work has A
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moved on to larger fields of usefulness and her example rings in
the memory like the words of an old carol, "It is a noble part to
bear a liberal mind."
*§,_ TAYLOR MORGAN
if Cor MAGGARD
C JoNAH BEGLEY
of Leslie County, Kentucky
_ This has been the hardest year we have known in the loss
- of old friends. These three men, living in different sections of
our territory, of varying ages, from youth to older life, have
shown us undeviating friendship throughout the years since
we first knew them.
Taylor Morgan was our nearest neighbour, from across the
Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, and kinder, better neigh-
bours than he and his dear wife were never known. In the early
days when we were building and settling down Taylor’s readi-
ness to help at every turn hardly let a week go by without some
kindness. He has gone to the place of all good neighbours, to
the ranks of those who have been kind, one to another.
In Coy Maggard, of Coon Creek, we grieve to report the
y death by accident, during this terrible winter, of a young and
_. eager man, who had newly taken on the responsibilities of mar-
ried life, and before whose bright young eyes this world was
‘; unfolding. Some years ago, when he taught at the Hurricane
' School, he stayed with us at Wendover and we never knew a day
in which his temper was not sunny and his nature helpful. Our
deepest sympathy goes out to his people whose grief we share.
. The latest of our friends to die and, like the others, one of
long years’ standing, is Jonah Begley, a member of our Hyden
` Committee, who lived on the Middle Fork below Hyden. In all
V of our dealings with him in the years since he has had charge
of our hauling we have never known him to be other than up-
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right and honorable in every dealing. The principle of good
work done for its own sake, of a man’s word being as sure as a
bond, this principle was rooted deep in the character of Jonah
Begley and we never knew him to violate it by even a hair’s
l breadth. We share in the sad grief of his widow and children.
J 0nah’s land was well-tilled and included a broader meadow
than one often finds in our narrow, rocky valleys. In leaving EV
the loved soil that was his own (that he tended as an inherited X}
obligation, and left in a better state than he received it), he
has answered "Adsum" to the call of the green pastures of
Paradise.
Sayings of the Children
Little boy (seeing a bathtub for the first time) : "I don’t
want to be put in that big hole of water."
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Ten-year-old Homer, with a compound fracture of his right
arm, taken out of the mountains for city treatment, was oiered »’
a banana. "What is that‘?" he asked. Then he took a bite and T
summed up his impressions as follows: "Hit would make awful
good food for old people what don’t have no teeth because hit’s
soft." —
At the sight of a train he volunteered that his little brother
went out onct and was scared of the trains, but that he was sure T
proud that he wasn’t scared of no trains. V
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BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS
The fearful destruction by floods in the East has deeply
' ‘ stirred all American hearts and the Frontier Nursing Service
sends its especial sympathy to its Committees in Pittsburgh,
il Hartford and Providence. It was most heartening to see the
‘ way in which the American Red Cross and the Federal Govern-
ment both swung into action to meet the crisis. The hurricanes
in the deep South have added to the national havoc and the uni-
versal sympathy for the stricken. As our Bulletin goes to press
the Ohio River is now on a rampage and endless water is pour-
ing into the Mississippi. We ourselves have had more flood
tides than we ever remember at any season and although our
people do not live near enough our rivers to have their homes
washed away, they are losing tons of precious top soil and weeks
of the best planting season. We have read with interest sug-
egstions for the control of water sheds, and we continue to urge
the need for large Federal forest reservations in the upper
water sheds of the Kentucky mountains as one of the best means,
l not only of preserving this area itself, but of controlling the ter-
rible volumes of water which, in a season like this, are pouring
down to the Ohio and thence to the Mississippi.
We wish to express our thanks to E. I. du Pont de Nemours
7, & Company’s "Cavalcade of America" for its radio sketch of the
Frontier Nursing Service over WABC on January 8th; and to
A Edwin C. Hill for his second radio talk about us on February 29.
A Among publications which have mentioned the Frontier
Nursing Service during the last quarter are: The Ladies’ Home
Journal, in its March article by Paul de Kruif, "Why Should
` Mothers Die?"; The Eastern Rotary Wheel, official organ of
Rotary Clubs, published in India; To Dragma, the official organ
J of the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority, in its January issue; The
Democratic Digest for March; St. Luke’s Alumnae Bulletin;
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Nursing Notes for March (the official organ of the Midwives’
Institute of London).
Our loyal thanks this year again, to the press of New York,
Boston, Washington, Baltimore and adjacent cities for their
‘ friendly, competent, and extremely full publicity. V
We have the honor of announcing that Dr. Richard M. 1
Smith, of Boston, is a new member of our National Medical
Council.
We regret to announce that Mrs. Linzee Blagden, after two
years of devoted and arduous work as Chairman of the New
York Committee, has relinguished her post, although she still
retains an active place on that Committee and on our Board of
Trustees.
We are happy in being able to announce at the same time
that Mrs. Warren Thorpe, for years a member of the New York
Committee, an oificer on it and a member of our Board of Trus- _
tees, has taken on the New York Chairmanship. I
New members of the New York Committee are: Mrs.
George P. Brett, Jr.; Mrs. S. Parker Gilbert; Miss Edith Sco- »
ville; and Mrs. Carnes VVeeks, a daughter of our Pittsburgh
Chairman, Mrs. Charles S. Shoemaker. A
We are happy to state that the New York Committee has h
taken in as an integral part of its membership the New York
Courier Committee. This includes all couriers resident in or _
near New York.
Old couriers of ours who are getting married this spring
are Miss Rebecca Crane of New York, to Mr. Duncan Van Nor-
den; and Miss Ann Danson of Cincinnati, to Mr. Robert Fred-
erick Muhlhauser. The Frontier Nursing Service extends to
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each of these two dear girls the best of all good wishes for a long
and happy life.
The New York Committee of the Frontier Nursing Service
_ i worked like troopers through the autumn and early winter to
H put over, as their annual benefit, the Wor1d’s Professional In-
door Tennis Championship matches, on Saturday evening, Jan-
uary 11th, at the Madison Square Garden. Our grateful thanks
to the Committee, the Patrons and Patronesses, and those who
so generously took blocks and seats of boxes.
We announce with the utmost satisfaction the birth of a
baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. William Warner, Jr. Mrs. Warner,
as Betsy Parsons of Hartford, Cennecticut, was one of the ablest
couriers the Frontier Nursing Service has ever had, and the
coming of her son is of thrilling interest to all of us.
Dr. John S. Fairbairn, the eminent London obstetrician
· has retired from the Chairmanship of the Central Midwives
» Board. When we last saw him and his wife in London two years
ago they were already planning to sever their London ties and
. spend an increasing part of each year at their home in Scot-
land. The Frontier Nursing Service reckons among its deepest
friendships that of both Dr. Fairbairn and his wife. His re-
2} tirement will be a great loss to the Central Midwives Board of
n England.
Resumption of publication is announced of the Internation-
al Nursing Review (official organ of the International Council
of Nurses) at 14 Quai Gustave Ador, Geneva, Switzerland, as
a Quarterly.
The larger meetings at which the Director spoke in
January and February, in the order of the engagements, were:
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Bill O’Brien’s Press-Tennis dinner at the Hotel Astor, New York
City; The Master’s School, Dobbs Ferry, New York; The
Woman’s Club and the Low-Heywood School, Stamford, Con-
V necticut; The Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church of Plain-
I field, New Jersey; The Woman’s Club of Fall River, Massachu-
` setts, and the Truesdale Hospital at Fall River; the annual fj,
meeting of the Boston Committee of the Frontier Nursing Ser- m
vice, with an over-flow attendance of more than 400 people in
the Hotel Somerset Ball Room; the Windsor School, Boston; l
the annual meeting of the Providence Committee of the Frontier
Nursing Service, with a large attendance; a special alumnae
group of Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority at the home of Dr. and
Mrs. R. Smith, in Wellesley; Beaver Country Day School, near
Boston; the annual meeting of the New York Committee of the
Frontier Nursing Service at the home of Miss Anne Morgan;
the First Presbyterian Church of Englewood, New Jersey; St.
Mark’s Church Ladies Society luncheon meeting at the Hotel
Astor in New York City; annual meeting of the Princeton Com-
mittee at the home of Mrs. Albert E. McVitty; The Bennett
School at Millbrook, New York; the annual meeting of the
Washington Committee at the Textile Museum of Mr. and Mrs.
George Hewitt Myers; luncheon groups at the Army and Navy
Club in Washington, through the courtesy of Mrs. Hugh Mat-
thews and at the National Woman’s Democratic Club, through
` the courtesy of Mrs. John T. Vance; a general meeting at the
Woman’s National Democratic Club; The Foxcroft School, Mid-
dleburg, Virginia; a general meeting of Washington nurses in
the National Red Cross auditorium; Arlington Hall School, in _
Virginia; the annual meeting of the Baltimore Committee in V
the hall of the Union Memorial Hospital; a special meeting to L
doctors, nurses and medical students at the John Hopkins Hos- Q7
pital; a special meeting of nurses, under the auspices of the
Pennsylvania General Hospital, at the William Penn High
School in Philadelphia; a special meeting of the New York group E
of the Alpha Omicron Pi Sorority in New York.
Our grateful thanks are due to the several hostesses of
these various meetings, to Mrs. Roosevelt for introducing the
Director at the Washington meeting; and to the Hotel Somerset
FRoN·;r1ER Nunsmc smzvicm is
in Boston for the free use of their ball room. Our grateful
thanks also to the hosts and hostesses at many private dinners,
luncheons and teas, where the work of the Frontier Nursing
Service was presented more informally. The Director was hon-
ored by the President and Mrs. Roosevelt with an invitation to
fp dinner at the White House.
——
ly Miss Barbara Glazier, of Hartford, Connecticut, one of our
couriers, on her visit to her old school (The Oldfields School)
near Baltimore, attended our annual meeting in Baltimore.
Among questions asked were some as to what the couriers did.
Miss Glazier, upon request, replied to this question in one of
the clearest, most sensible and to-the-point small talks we have
ever heard.
We grieve to have to announce the death, from cancer, at
Pretoria, South Africa, of a former member of the Frontier
Nursing Service staff, Miss Eleanor Hine. Our deepest sym-
pathy goes out to her family and friends.
Miss Kathleen Wilson of Houston, Texas, graduate of Rice
Institute, twice a courier with the Frontier Nursing Service,
is taking her training as a nurse at the Yale School of Nursing
in New Haven. Kathleen is a lover of people as well as of an-
imals and she is training as a nurse in order to serve
on the permanent staf of the Frontier Nursing Service. This
{qi is our first courier to become one of the nurses and we will wel-
5. come her back into our ranks with old affection.
THE SINGING CLASS
" ‘There’s somebody tapping at the maple tree. Tap, tippy-
tap, tap, tap! . . . ’ Remember the way you had to do the
‘fah-la-la’s’ in the Christmas carol? Right off the end of your
tongues. . . See if you can do it." And fifteen youngsters,
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as faithfully as fifteen mirrors, reflect the leader’s facial ex-
pressions as they "tap, tippy-tap, tap, tap !"
It is Saturday afternoon and for one hour the Garden
A House living room is filled with all sizes and shapes of boys and
* girls, some of whom have been waiting since ten o’clock for the
’ Singing Class to begin.
You may have heard that the Singing Class set the tempo '
for a most successful Christmas party and braved the bitter
» cold of Christmas morning to carol the birth of Christ to every
one on the Wendover "plantation"-——it was the first news that
met me when I came back in January. About that time Mar-
garet Watson, our Wendover nurse, and I talked over the ad-
visibility of making the class a weekly event throughout the ‘
spring months. How to replace the unifying motif of Christmas
~ was the problem.
Not without some trepidation I brought up the subject of I
birds. At the first meeting they listened in shy silence to what
I said and I wondered if their solemn faces were merely solemn
or a mask of indifference. But its wasn’t indifference! Six
weeks later, we take as a matter of course Lucy’s accurate de-
scription of a variety of sparrow new to the rest of us, or John
Baker’s tantalizing assertion that there is a bird like the pileated
woodpecker in the woods near Wendover.
Mrs. Breckinridge’s library has yielded not only the fa- »
miliar field bird book, but a nature library each volume of which ·
is fascinatingly illustrated. We never sing the Owl Lullaby
without having as inspiration the picture of two great-eyed
owlets at the door of their home in a stump. Since I hold the
book, I can’t see the p