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Published Quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Inc., Lexington, Ky. ‘
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Edit0r’s Office: Wendover, Kentucky ,
VOLUME 31 AUTUMN, 1955 NUMBER 2 I
"Entered as second class matter June 30, 1926, at the Post Office at Lexington, Ky., I
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ARTICLE AUTHOR PAGE
` American Association of Nurse-
_ Midwives (Il1us.) Helen E. Browne 11
q Babies and Beans Olive Bunce 3
1 Beyond the Mountains 41
Qin; Dublin Gets Rid of Its Post Oilice
(_ Horses Pamela Hinkson 39
Field Notes (Illus.) 44
I Flight Into Midwifery Ruth Nephew 31
3 Kimo of Red Bird (I1lus.) Josephine Sagebeer
Audrey Williams 8
Kentucky and the Frontier Nursing
Service Pauline P. Scanlan 21
1 In Memoriam 15
5 Old Courier News 23
S Old Staff News ` A 33
i Operation Coal Bucket Treon McGuire
Q Illustrated by Anne Kilham 5
i Roger Sizemore (Photograph) Inside back cover
E Storm on the Ridge Martha Morrison 29
i The Birth Mystical (Verse) A.S.D.C'. 2
Q BRIEF mars
: 1 A Tribute to the Hen Adapted from I . D. Graham 38
, P Bobbitt Family Pecan Cake Helen Bobbitt 13
i E Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum I 22
Just Jokes 30
{ Q Letters We Never Finished Reading 28
Mistakes of a Big Man The Thousandsticks 50
Necessity Contributed 10
Oddments 50
it ( Old Sayings That Fit 'I‘oday’s
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Our Mail Bag 7
E f Roe Deer and Fallow Oryw 32
J Voice on the Telephone Postal Service News 28
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' Drawing by Anne Kilham
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What 0 and trium h the other da to announce to Agnes
JV Lewis that the last of Wendover’s forty-four coal buckets had
. been scra ed washed, and ainted with red lead for the winter!
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Courier Jane Leigh Powell, "Well, that should be all until tea!"
A vision of the long, cool room at the Big House, and Mrs.
Breckinridge’s library, had crystallized in my mind’s eye, to be .1
shattered by Leigh’s reply—"Not quite, first Agnes has a few rl
coal buckets for us to paint!" I
As it was our first week at Wendover, Anne Kilham and I
(junior couriers both) greeted every new job with enthusiastic _-
delight. So, we gathered together newspapers, steel wool, paint {
and brushes, eager to begin a new FNS experience. I,
That afternoon an all-time low of coal buckets were painted
by our team of three, for we were all still perfectionists and
had yet to devise a system of bucket rehabilitation. As we j
scrubbed red lead off ourselves before tea, I cautiously inquired —
, about the number of buckets which remained for treatment. I
"Ask Henry," Leigh replied, deep in turpentine, and we did. ,
With the care of the coal buckets for all the stoves and tire- i
places at Wendover among his many other jobs, Henry took ,i
gleeful zeal as the days went by, in bringing us every coal
bucket he could find. But, in his wisdom, he never told us exactly Y
how many lay ahead, only promising to replace the six or eight 1
which were being currently painted by another group as soon
as the renovated ones had dried. ¥
As time passed our technique improved in many ways. The i
A buckets were washed at the Pebble Work Shop water hydrant, R
following the morning horse grooming, and then were left to
dry in the sun. The drying buckets were a sign that scraping
and painting would take place in the afternoon, with fun for il
all bystanders. My gratitude to Tom Sawyer was boundless on H
those occasions when we couriers worked so cheerfully that li
our "sidewalk" observers begged to be allowed a hand in the job. if
Painting proved much more popular than scraping and, as _}
experts in the latter, Anne and I highly recommend copper
kitchen scouring pads. l
While the glamour of the coal buckets soon wore off, we l
discovered that this, like every other Wendover job, had its lj
special rewards. We were proud to point out to nurse-midwife
Hunt, fresh off the boat from England, that Americans didn’t f ¤
waste everything! A bond in common sprang up not only be-
tween us and Henry, as connoisseurs of coal buckets, but also Q
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between us and the miners and coal truck drivers out on the
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And we shall never again take the civilized comforts of heating
c i quite so for granted. Best of all was the fun we had talking-
_ I and laughing-—with the people who stopped to pass the time of
day with us in front of the Pig Alley Pebble Work Shop. Finally,
VJ there is the satisfaction of a job completed and well done. But
_T now I am off in fear and trembling to take an inventory for
, Agnes of equipment at all of Wendover’s stoves, Hreplaces, and
3 furnaces and, if Henry has slipped up, bucket number forty-live
. will soon be drying in the sun!
I OUR MAIL BAG
j A About Thirty Years Onward
. From Washington State: Thirty Years Onward is a heart-
i warming chronicle that should delight all old friends of FNS
and interest many new ones.
From Pennsylvania: I have read it from cover to cover and am
5 exhausted to think of all accomplished since those early days.
j. It is a very thrilling thing.
s From Maine: What a beautiful record of the loving work of so
‘ many years.
rg From Pemnsylvaniaz I have read it with great interest and enjoy-
‘ ment. I think it a comprehensive report, but I am sure facts and
_ figures can never fully report the work of the Frontier Nursing
I Service. While there is much that is tangible, there is so much
, , that is intangible, so much that is of the heart.
About the Quarterly Bulletin
i From Florida: May I tell you how inspiring I always find the
lp, Bulletins of the Frontier Nursing Service, which I read from
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i G of this, or perhaps they haven’t and you, therefore, have no idea
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I would like to pick a ight with the person who said animals . ·
are dumb. Here at Red Bird we have trouble keeping up with `
our horse Kimo, who appears to be much smarter than the
nurses who try to take care of him. He has the run of the
grounds and knows just about everything that goes on at the ‘
Clara Ford Nursing Center. I
Kimo’s day starts quite normally. He is usually waiting at {
the barn for his morning ration. If he is not there, you must
start looking. He may be hiding from you behind Mr;.Turvey- g
drop (a jeep), or he may have just gotten bored waiting for
you, and taken a walkdown the road. (We have discovered that
Kimo can open the swinginggate.) If this is the case, we just I —»
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because he will slip his bridle and come home without you. When
.3 one of us goes out in a jeep, Kimo watches for the return, and
E then advances to have a look. He is especially fond of sweet
I Y potatoes and dog biscuits. But we have found that nothing can
kv be left in the jeep, or we won’t have it. He eats corn iiakes (box
` E and all), onions, and laying mash. He also enjoys leather jackets.
»; (Jean Hollins, Resident Courier, didn’t realize what an appetite
Kimo had, and left her jacket in the jeep the other day. Now
her jacket is air conditioned.)
i At 4:00 p.m., we all have tea. Kimo must smell it brewing,
, because he is at the porch door waiting, and puts up a terrible
J rumpus until he gets his share. It’s a good thing we have a
screened-in porch or Kimo would just come in and sit down.
_Q KIM0 ON NIGHT DUTY
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_ AUDREY WILLIAMS, R,N., s.c.M.
I, There had been several falls of snow during the past few
. . days. Then the weather turned bitterly cold and the creeks were
difficult to negotiate. I had come back to the center from my
nursing visits at about 3:30 p.m., and was just thinking of
making some tea, when I saw Jem Masters go past the window.
His wife was expecting her iifth baby. She had been booked for
delivery at Hyden Hospital because the home conditions were
not satisfactory. Then too, the trail to the place led over a
( mountain ridge so steep as to make it hard to reach in icy
! weather.
Y Jem told me Helen was ‘punishing bad,’ so there was nothing
i E for it_but to take care of her at home.
I asked Jem if the trail was tit for a horse, as I knew it
would be a hard climb carrying the saddlebags. He decided
| that Kimo would make it all right, so I gave him the layette
T! donated by a church mission group, and told him to go home
{ and get the house warm while I got myself and Kimo ready.
I ·$ We seemed to take hours getting over that mountain, Kimo
. and I. The ground was beginning to freeze and I was sure the
· baby would arrive before I did. Eventually we made it, and I
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was relieved to find a neighbour woman there who had begun
to get things ready. _§
Two hours later a lovely girl baby arrived. Just as she was
about to make her entrance into the world my foot went through i
the floor, so I delivered the baby first and then extricated myself.
All this by the light of a iiashlight and a miner’s lamp! V
· While I was clearing up I asked Jem to get Kimo saddled.
He had been sharing the barn with Jem’s mule. I refused Jem’s I
offer to see me back to Red Bird, as I didn’t see how he would
make it back home over the mountain, and I knew he wanted ,
to stay with his wife. By this time the ground was really ,
frozen. Most of the way I walked, hanging onto Kimo’s neck _s
to keep on my feet. Without that horse I am sure I would have _
slid home on my back.
Kimo was certainly pleased to be back in his stall, and quite . I
ready for his feed. My own postponed cup of tea was also very Q
enjoyable. Q
NEoEss1TY ·
Necessity is the mother of invention, and the hungry ‘·
Frenchman told about in a biography published in England illus- ·
trates the old adage anew. A
He was in an English restaurant and wanted eggs for break- I
fast but had forgotten the English word. So he got around the .
diiiiculty in the following way: p ,
"Vaiterre, vat is zat valking in the yard ?" *
"A rooster, sir." I
"Ah, and vat you call the rooster’s wife ?" .·
"The hen, sir." —;
"And vat you call the children of ze rooster and his wife ?"
"Chickens, sir." 3
"But vat you call the chickens before they are chickens ‘?"
"Eggs, sir." — J
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; AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE-MIDWIVES, Inc.
This Association, now in its twenty-ninth year, is honored
- ~ to receive the following letter:
Q INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF MIDWIVES
President:
V Miss N. B. Deane, M.B.E.—Great Britain
. 1st November, 1955.
· Dear Mrs. Breckinridge,
It gives me great pleasure to welcome the American Asso-
‘ ciation of Nurse-Midwives into membership of the International
_ Confederation of Midwives. I hope that this link with your col-
_ leagues in other countries will prove of great benefit to your
V members and the cause they serve.
‘ The other Member organisations are glad to know that they
are to have your cooperation and help in striving to further the
’ objects for which our Confederation was formed.
. I hope that you will give Miss Bayes and myself the oppor-
‘ tunity of assisting you in any way you think possible.
With cordial greetings to all your members.
_. I remain,
Yours sincerely,
(Signed) NORA B. DEANE
President.
i Mrs. M. Breckinridge,
J President,
J American Association of Nurse-Midwives,
Wendover,
a Kentucky,
U.S.A.
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We wish to express our gratitude to Great Britain for hav-
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of Midwives and to Sweden for having seconded this proposal. i
We are sending all of our members notification of this recogni-
tion by the International Confederation at the same time that
we send them the minutes of our annual meeting. ’
The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the American Asso- »
ciation of Nurse-Midwives took place this year on Tuesday, `
September 13, at Wendover, Kentucky. We were deeply hon-
ored to have as our guest speaker Dr. Bayard Carter, Professor _
of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Duke University, Durham, ;
North Carolina. Professor Chassar Moir of Oxford University
fame, who had been the guest speaker at the meeting of the
American Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology at The
Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia, came with Dr. Carter and ,
was so kind as to address us too. It was a special happiness to l
have Mrs. Carter and Mrs. Moir with their husbands as guests {
at Wendover. {
The subject of Dr. Carter’s address was, "The dangerous {
grande multipara." He and Professor Moir encouraged the lively T
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1* answering the many questions flung at them by the various
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», The Association feels humbled, as well as proud, by the
i fact that two more in the long line of distinguished obstetricians
p I have honored us with their presence and with their addresses
’ at our annual meeting.
, HELEN E. BROWNE, Secretary
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3 THE BOBBITT FAMILY CHRISTMAS
PECAN CAKE
Ingredients-
. ii.; lb. butter
I 1 lb. light brown sugar
_ 1 lb. flour
@ 10 eggs
I V; cup New Orleans or sorghum molasses
A lg teaspoon soda
f` 1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons nutmeg
- * % cup rum, brandy or whiskey
L M, lb. dates (chopped)
% lb. dark raisins
— M lb. candied cherries (chopped)
. 1 2 lbs. shelled pecans (chopped coarsely)
L Method:
_, Cream butter and sugar together thoroughly. Add molasses,
C then eggs, well beaten, and nutmeg. Beat well. Reserve enough
~ flour to dust fruit, then sift remainder of flour with soda and salt.
M Add flour and liquid, alternately, beginning and ending with the
l flour. Add fruit, then nuts, and mix thoroughly. Bake in tube
§ pan, lined—both sides and bottom—with heavy brown paper,
” buttered and floured. Bake in oven about 300 degrees from 2%
Q to 3 hours, or thereabouts.
I —Contributed by Helen Bobbitt
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DeKalb, Illinois (Edith Wynne Mathison)
, ; Died in June, 1955 Los Angeles, California
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I MISS WALLER IRENE BULLOCK
E, Boston, Massachusetts MISS LEILA KIRTLAN D
YI Died in November, 1955 Black Mountain, North Carolina
I Died in October, 1955
I MISS JEAN CARSON
` Atlanta, Georgia MRS. FRANCIS C. McMA'I'H
Died in October, 1955 Detroit, Michigan
Died in June, 1955
MRS. PHRONIA MORGAN
EVERSOLE MR. HENRY L. NEWNAN
_ Hyden, Kentucky Detroit, Michigan
— Died in September, 1955 Died in July, 1955
‘ MR. GEORGE PEYTON FITZ MR. J OHZN·D. ROARK
· Hazard, Kentucky Essie, Kentucky
Died in June, 1955 Died in July, 1955
~ DR. JAMES E. HAGAN MISS CHARLOTTE C. SWAN
Hazard, Kentucky New York, New York
, I Died in October, 1955 Died in May, 1955
DR. CHARLES N. KAVANAUGH
; I Lexington, Kentucky
s` Died in October, 1955
I. "I don`t worry about what l want when I die-this dear
“ world is only a shadow ot That. l am sure it won`t be leaving so
y much as seeing and understanding, coming out ot a contused
I halt light into tull day light. But it is all One.
_ "Oneness is such a mystery. which we don`t understand
till we get our eyes open. which is the process known as death.
_ But it is all in the mind ot God. We are His as your thoughts
V are yours . . ."
n ‘ —/\deline Cashmere, in a letter ot
1 23 November, I933
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l It is not given us to comprehend the mystical intuitions of
I a saint. A life as dedicated to the love of God as was Adeline’s,
I with service to her fellowmen carried up into that love, such a
life has an awareness of the mind of God that is nearer to the
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naked truth than the rest of us can reach, until our eyes are
opened by "the process known as death."
With the spring and fall of each year, we seek to express
in these pages a little something of what old friends have meant l
to us. And we try at the same time to express our conviction
that these friends are alive, and faring well.
Now that the Frontier Nursing Service is over thirty years
old, the ranks of those on the Other Side are larger than are Q
the ranks of those remaining here amid "the changes and
chances of this fleeting world." ,
Mrs. Phronia Morgan Eversole had been a member of our
Hyden Committee since its inception and was a devoted personal
friend of the older ones in the Frontier Nursing Service. Mr.
John D. Roark, a member of our Beech Fork Committee, took f
a helpful interest in our work over a long period of time. Mr.
Henry L. Newnan of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, was active in our }
Detroit group. He had long wanted to come down to see us,
but that was not to be. Mr. George Peyton Fitz, a member for
years of our Hazard Committee, has been described as "a great
community servant," so ardently did he give himself to those
things that make a better life for other men. Mrs. Rami Ken-
nedy, widow of the distinguished playwright of that name, and
brilliant actress in her youth, had been failing for a long time
before she was released by kindly death. Life had been kind to E
her, too, in giving her one of the happiest marriages ever granted `V
anyone. Her long interest in the Frontier Nursing Service, which ·Y
her husband shared, goes back to our early years. We shall R
remember her as one of the mostcharming women we ever knew.
Among our early supporters—back in 1928-was Miss Wal- I l
ler Bullock of Kentucky and, in her later years, of Boston. Miss
Charlotte C. Swan iirst took a generous interest in us in 1931 1]
when we, like all charities, desperately needed the support of _
every friend, and she has remembered us in her will. A more
recent friend, Miss Jean Carson of Atlanta, has also left us a ,
legacy. Although none of us in the Kentucky mountains had i
ever met her, we felt as though we knew her, and she felt as I
though she knew us. After a kinswoman of hers, a member of
our New York Committee, had sent her Wide Neighborhoods,
she wanted to have a part in all our doings. {
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With Miss Leila Kirtland, I had a friendship that not only
Went back to our girlhood, but carried on the friendships of our
mothers and grandmothers. After her retirement, as a mission-
{ ary in Japan, she came several times to see us, and put her gift
{ as an artist at our disposal. Among the pictures of wild "yarbs"
that we printed years ago, with their medicinal properties, were
several drawn by her from nature. She loved the beauty of God’s
creation as well as the human beings in it, for whom she had
worked lovingly and long. But most of all she loved God, as
1 she knew Him in Christ:
"My Shepherd Thou, I know Thee near."
Early in the second World War, when so many of our Brit-
ish staH were leaving us for the Old Country, we wrote Miss
é Lyda Anderson to ask her to leave her well deserved retirement
; and come to us as superintendent of Hyden Hospital. She came
at once. An experienced hospital administrator, she tided us
if over during our most diiiicult year. In looking back over the
long span of time in which I knew her, first in this country, then
if in France, then as a member of our staff, I cannot remember
AE anything she ever did that wasn’t kind. Nor can I remember
l any action of hers that wasn’t backed by a high integrity. Now
§ her long illness has come to an end, and her body lies in the
Illinois soil from which she came. We are often companioned by
:4 her spirit. `
l In Mrs. Francis C. McMath the Frontier Nursing Service
·? had a trustee who loved us well. Since her death, I have gone
‘g over some of her letters—of encouragement, of affection. It
l was back in the thirties that Madeline McMath f