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ODETTE PRUNET
French Fellowship Nurse
and
Kentucky Child
(For the Story See Page 3)
THE COVER PICTURE OF HELL—FER-SARTAIN CREEK, IN THE CON-
FLUENCE DISTRICT COVERED BY THE FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE,
WAS TAKEN BY MR. WILL BOWERS OF CAUFIELD AND SHOOK, INC.,
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY. IT IS USED WITH THE KIND PERMISSION
OF MR. BOWERS AND CAUFIELD AND SHOOK, INC.
  I
THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN of THE FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE, Inc.
Published Quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Lexington, Ky.  
Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year ,
VOLUME 22 WINTER, 1947 NUMBER 3 r,  Y-
"Entered as second—class matter June 30, 1926, at the Post Office at Lexington, Ky., L
under Act of March 3, 1879."
Copyright, 1947, Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. '

  (_, INDEX
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L   ARTICLE K AUTHOR PAGE
A Ballad of Trees and the Master Sidney Lanier 2
` A French Fellowship Nurse Odette Prunet 3
A Story for Lent and Eastertide Christian News-Letter, ’ 7
London, England
_ Beyond the Mountains 43
Busy Mondays Eva Gilbert 48 i
Field Notes 51
l  Letter from a Guest Laura B. Chapman A 32
» My Hat Is off to Them Margaret M. Field · 10
? Old Courier News ` 35
V Old Staff News 13
  The Shangri-la Cure Lucy Ratlif 25
BRIEF BITS
Advance Notice of Annual Meeting 50
Embarrassing Moments Theda Fetternian 34
y "Give It to the Sea Bees" 42
"God Gave Us Memories" Sir James M. Barrie 6
y Instantaneous Tax Relief Punch 42
Just Jokes - 6
  Just Jokes 12
March (A Poem) Maud Mallet 9
V Our Hospital Cook 6
A Sayings of the Children 42
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 A BALLAD OE TREES AND Tl—lE MASTER i`@_
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by  
SIDNEY LANIER  
lnlo +he woods my Masler wenl,
Clean Torspenl, iorspenl. A
Inlo lhe woods my Masier came, —  
Forspenl wilh love and shame. . A
Bul The olives lhey were noi blind io Him, R
The lillle gray leaves were l only when we see it at work in men and women. There are many
ie unwritten lives of the saints, and this war has added to their
ll number.
  Elizabeth Pilenko came from a wealthy land-owning family
I in the south of Russia. She went to the Women’s University of 9
i St. Petersburg and began at the age of eighteen, while still a
student, to teach in the evening courses at the great Putilov
factory. She published two books of poems and was a close
` friend of some of the best-known younger Russian poets.
She became a keen socialist revolutionary and during the
Qi years 1914-1917 her life was taken up with revolutionary activi-
1 ties. After the October Revolution she worked with extraordi-
— nary skill and audacity in rescuing victims from the Terror.
  Later she became Mayor of her own home town, working for
  justice between the Whites and the Reds, both of whom had
¥ resorted to violence against their opponents. She was denounced
i as a Bolshevist, tried and acquitted. ·
_ in 1923 she came to Paris. The excesses of the Revolution
Q as it developed revolted her, though she remained to her death
  a staunch advocate of its principles. She found her way back to
  religious faith largely under the iniiuence of Serge Bulgakov,
g who had been a Marxist. She presented herself to the authorities
  of the Russian Church in Paris and announced that she wished
  to become a religious, "beginning at once, today," and to found
  a monastery. She had her way, but she was not the traditional
  Russian Orthodox religious. She was accused by some of neg-
A   lecting the long services and the traditional contemplation. "I
iv must go my way," she said, "I am for the suffering people." In
i the early morning she was at the markets buying cheap food
l for the people she fed, bringing it back in a sack on her back.
i She was a familiar figure in the slum, in her poor black habit
'4 and her worn-out men’s shoes.
Z   The many Russian refugees in France in those days were
11. stateless persons, many of them poverty-stricken, without privi-

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lege, without claim on any of the services which the country T
provided for the poor. Mother Maria worked among the poorest.
She discovered that Russians who contracted tuberculosis were it
lying in a filthy hovel on the banks of the Seine into which the pf
Paris police used to throw those syphilitic wrecks which they » Q)
picked up along the riverside. With ten francs in her pocket Hi
she bought a chateau and opened a sanatorium. W
Then she found that there were hundreds of Russians in l
lunatic asylums all over France. They had just "disappeared"  
into these institutions, where no questions were asked about 1
them. She raised a public outcry and got many of them released. l
In those days the Russian congregations in and around Paris '
were living examples of what the early apostolic communities il
must have been. They were real homes for the poor and the ti
unwanted. Russians living in _tenements could iind there comfort  
and friendship. The Churches had their own labour exchanges, i
` clinics and many other services, and the convent, over which  
Mother Maria presided, was central to their life.  
When the German occupation took place Mother Maria sum- ,  
moned her chaplain and told him that she felt that her particular  
duty was to render all possible assistance to persecuted Jews.  
She knew that this would mean imprisonment and probably  
death, and she gave him the option of leaving. He refused. For p {
a month the convent was a haven for Jews. Women and children  ’
were hidden within its walls. Money poured in to enable them V
to escape from France and hundreds were got away. At the T I
end of a month the Gestapo came. Mother Maria was arrested  
and sent to the concentration camp at Ravensbrueck. Her chap-  
lain was sent to Buchenwald, where he died of starvation and  
overwork.   3
The story of her life in the camp is only now being pieced  
together. She was known even to the guards as "that wonderful  
. Russian nun," and it is doubtful whether they had any intention { l
of killing her. She had been there two and a half years when a  
new block of buildings was erected in the camp, and the prisoners ,4
were told that these were to be hot baths. A day came when a 1, _p
fewdozen prisoners from the women’s quarters were lined up  
outside the buildings. One girl became hysterical. Mother Maria, " 

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l who had not been selected, came up to her, "Don’t be fright-
l ened," she said, "1ook, I shall take your turn/’ and in line with
l, the rest, she passed through the doors. It was Good Friday, 1945.
It ——The Clwistian News-Letter,
lg) London, England, 17th April, 1946
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i
l MARCH
  MAUD tl\iALLET
il
I March leaps blindly trom the sky.
g The dust around him whirls,
  He whistles as he races by,
  And roughs the children`s curls.
Q He takes their kites, their caps, their scarves—
  He romps along the lane,
Q And counts his lambs, his pigs, and calves——
l He makes earth young again.
  The gusts ot March are keen, though briet,
  For he has lots to do.
  To tinish ott all winter`s griet
  And see some nestlings through.
  But ere he tlies to lands atar
  He tlares his torch: the sun, ’
  To show you where primroses are.
  And whis|oers—"S|oring`s begun."
l ` —The Pe0ple’s Friend, England
  March 6, 1943
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MY HAT IS OFF TO THEM
by I
MARGARET M. FIELD, R.N., Hyden Hospital V  
¤Q_ ik,
 
We have the finest patients in the world. I have always ."i`
thought so and when I come to accumulate specific instances
I am more than ever convinced. They are loyal, patient, co-
operative, and appreciative.
One of our patients was so ill that for some weeks some
member of his family stayed at the hospital every night. Usually
it was two male relatives who changed shifts in the middle of
the night. One of these young men was particularly helpful. I
It was he who called me when somebody in that ward needed _
me and I couldn’t hear because I was busy in the other ward,
who offered to shovel coal whenever necessary and who helped
me lift up in bed an elderly woman who was perfectly helpless.   4
It was this same young man who helped with the last rites when  
this woman died at five o’clock one morning and there was no  
second nurse to assist in turning her. Everything was done in  
a spirit of quiet dignity and respect, the underlying motive being  
pure neighborly friendliness, both to the other patient and to  
the nurse. I {
A prenatal who stayed with us a long time used to go into  
the general ward in the evening to read and talk to a little girl,  
very lonely and homesick because away from her mother for  
the iirst time in her life. Edith offered toys to the child and T
talked to her in the nicest possible way, thus helping to make  
the transition from home to hospital more bearable.  
Numerous other prenatals, or even mothers staying over  
night with their own sick children, have likewise made them-  
selves useful in the early morning. Everything comes due at  
six o’clock and the night nurse could never finish her work some i
days if it were not for the friendly and efficient help of these  
women. Some of them have "adopted" babies who were in the *
hospital a long time because they were malnourished and who V
needed their morning feeding just when the nurse was busiest.  
Particularly outstanding is the spirit of sharing among the
patients. Seldom does one have anything that he does not share Y-
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with at least one patient, probably several. It may be only an
orange ora stick of chewing gum, or it may be a whole chicken
. dinner brought in by his own family. Whatever it is, happiness
we is brought to another by the simple act of sharing.
Q. ;, Sometimes we are inclined to think our patients fail to
vlvr express their gratitude and appreciation in words. Some do
` A fail, it is true, but others are so surprisingly articulate in this
respect that an unexpected lump has risen in my throat and
I’ve been made to feel ashamed and humble by the things for
which patients are grateful. Some women never forget to say,
"Thank you," for a pan of wash water in the afternoon or for
an extra blanket when it’s time to go to sleep at night. Some,
I after a long, hard labor, look up at the nurse and say, simply
i but very expressively, "Thank you for being so good to me. It
‘ helped the pain." And the nurse, not conscious that she has
been "good" but only that she has done her job, smiles back in
,1 . surprise. One recent patient had a labor that continued for
rj hours and hours. After she had been given a sedative close to
¢j midnight she said to the student midwife, "Now I’m going to
  try to be quiet so you can rest. You must be plumb tired out—
i you’ve been with me all day."
  One young mother said to the night nurse, "I can’t explain
§ what I mean, but somehow you’re so patient. And when my
‘g baby’s here with you I feel just as safe as if my mother had
  him." Another mother expressed it thus: "I sleep better in
  the hospital than at home because I don’t have to worry about
= the baby a bit. I know you’re here."
_ Another woman, trying to urge a mother to leave her sick
  baby here till the doctor discharged him, said, "We’re lucky to
    have a doctor and a hospital. I wouldn’t take my baby out of
l l here till the doctor says so. I wouldn’t have lost my first two
  S babies if I’d been able to bring them to the hospital."
  Women who have had other experiences at the time of
  A childbirth are probably the most grateful for what the Frontier.
l ' Nursing Service does. Said one woman, mother of several chil-
dren, "I never got along so well having a baby. I’m sure glad
to be in the hospital." Another one, who had been outside and
{ who had expected to be delivered in a city hospital but was
.1, able to come back to Hyden after all, remarked, "My, I’m glad
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to be here instead of there! You may not get the private rooms  
and the fancy trays here, but you get good care and you’re l
among friends."  
Two of our young patients had an interesting conversation.  
Joe, aged twelve, had been with us a long time because of a “&—
bad burn; Oscar, six years old, had been here only a few days. {
Oscar liked neither the hospital nor anything connected with it I
and had no inhibitions about saying so in forcible (and not p
always complimentary) language. Joe tried both to defend the Jl
hospital and to express his own opinion. "If you tell me why  
you don’t like it," he said emphatically but patiently, "I’ll tell  
you why I do like it." §Y
Children are notoriously diflicult to care for in a hospital ;i
situation. I dreaded Tonsil Clinic with a consuming dread, be-   I
cause of the necessarily crowded conditions, the heat, and the 5*
inevitable homesickness of the young patients, all coupled with  
the discomfort they would suffer from their tonsillectomies. I · ii?
had one of the happiest surprises of my life! The children  
behaved very well and were so patient I could have cried. il
A Through the intense heat, the smells, and the pain of their sore  
throats most of them were quiet and co-operative. Whenever  
I think of the courage and cheerfulness of children under trying ‘ {ei
circumstances, I shall always remember my first Tonsil Clinic gg
at Hyden Hospital.  
So the patients come and the patients go, a great crowd of {Y 
them in the course of a year. From them I have learned patience  
and persistence under difficulties, unquenchable optimism, family  
loyalty, and the faith that triumphs over all obstacles. Do you  
wonder that I like and admire them? My hat is off to them all i ¤
—our patients!  
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JUST JOKES  
A man rushed into a drugstore and asked the pharmacist what to do Zi
to stop hiccups. His answer was a slap in the face. »]
Shocked and angry, the stranger demanded the reason for such action.  
"Well," replied the pharmacist grinning, "you haven't any hiccups il
now, have you?" {1
"No, but my wife still has them out there in the car." · [
—Charlie Streit in Dawn Patrol  

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  1s·RoN·1·1ER Nunsmc SERVICE V 13
 
I OLD STAFF NEWS
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( Compiled and Arranged by
Q5 SALLY MacMILLAN
  Secretary to Dorothy F. Buck (
if Thanksgiving Day Reunion, Regent Palace Hotel, London,
I England—November 28, 1946.
il Those Present Diner
  Hors d’Oeuvre Exquis
3 of tho Consommé Vermicelle
  Creme Faubonne
jl Frontier Nursing Service 1....
'. Omelette Chasseur
(2 OLD STAFF Supreme de Cabillaud
  St. Germain
»   Were Jambon Braisé Florentine
Q; Epinards au Jus
  MHC (Ahhlé   M3.CKiHHOH) Pommes Chateau
§I ·
  Peggy (Peggy Brown) Salade de Saison
-   Mickie Major (Ethel Mime) Profitorolo au Chocolat
  Coupe Glacée Claudia
Pl Ellie (A‘mi" EIHSO") THE MEALs IN ESTABLISH-
  Holly (Mary Hoiims) MENTS ORDER, 1946
E, Under the provisions of the
  Macdonald (Elizabeth above Order there may not be
  Macdonald) served to any person and ono
( Dougal] (Isabella Dougau person may obtain or consume
  r Marraine) at any one meal more than
( three courses. The supply of
( Mickle Minor (Edith Mickle) broad at main meals, eX€ePt at
Q., G specific request of the customer,
lj May V- Teen is prohibited and bread so sup-
ll plied ranks as a course.
  We had Om. Thanksgiving Visitors are respectfully in-
‘ ( _ _ formed that not more than one
{1 Dame? at the Same tlme as dish from each of the above
  you all. courses will be served.
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14 THE QUARTERLY BuLr.m·1·1N ________ 3%
From Sybil Holmes Barton in the British West Indies- `  
October 10, 1946 X
Guy and I got here two weeks ago today. We had one
week’s notic