Miss Colcleugh was an energetic, faithful and painstaking nurse, loved and honored by all.

Associated Alumnae Meeting

The ninth annual meeting of the Associated Alumnæ will be held at Detroit, Mich., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, June 5, 6 and 7, 1906.

Society of Superintendents of Training Schools The twelfth annual convention of the Society of Superintendents of Training School for Nurses will be held in New York, April 25 to 28. An interesting programme has been arranged. The following are some of the subjects for papers; "The Furnishings and Equipment of Wards— Free, Private and Isolation-and of Nurses' Homes"; "The Economical Purchase and Use of Drugs"; "Economy in the Equipment and Management of Laundries"; "In the Equipment and Management of Operating Rooms"; and "In Buying and Using Surgical Supplies."

Camp Nicholas Senn

The regular quarterly meeting of Camp Nicholas Senn was held on March 5, at 560 East Division Street, Chicago. Miss I. V. Parkes, chairman of the camp, presided.

The subscriptions to the Monument Fund are being paid, and much interest in the Sick Benefit Fund is shown by the nurses. After business was disposed of, refreshments were served, and the camp adjourned to meet at 5523 Sangamon Street, on June 4. E. P. MINTEER, Secy.-Treas.

Married

At Ottawa, Ontario, February 7, 1906, Miss Eleanor Jackson, graduate of Metropolitan Training School, Blackwell's Island, New York City, class 1902, and post-graduate of same school, class 1903, to Dr. Edward W. Weber, of White Plains, N. Y.

Dr. Weber is a graduate of Cornell University, class 1903.

Dr. and Mrs. Weber reside at 56 Grand Street, White Plains, N. Y.

Miss Bessie Mae Phillips, graduate of the Missouri Baptist Sanatarium, and Mr. Charles James Malone were married Wednesday, March 7, 1906. Miss Phillips has been head operatingroom nurse at the Missouri Baptist Sanatarium for several years.

Mr. and Mrs. Malone will be "at home" after April 1, 1230 Clara Avenue.

Births

Born to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Knowlton at their home, in Cadillac, Mich., a son. Mrs. Knowlton was formerly Miss Williams, class of 1901, Mercy Hospital, Big Rapids.

In a recent letter Mrs. Knowlton says, "I still cling to THE TRAINED NURSE," and we feel deeply flattered that the magazine can hold its own against so formidable a rival as a new baby

son.

Personal

Miss Kate Tureaud, R. N., formerly supervisor of Randall's Island, has opened a sanitarium at 45 Cedar Street, St. Augustine, Fla.

Misses R. E. Harrington, R. N., of Randall's Island, and L. A. Dunne, R. N., of Brooklyn, have returned from a two weeks' trip to Montreal, much improved in health.

Miss A. Louise Dietrich, superintendent of Providence Hospital, El Paso, Texas, has tendered her resignation to take place March 18.

Miss Emily Dana Greene, directoress of nurses of Providence Hospital, El Paso, Texas, has resigned her position.

Miss Helen Montague, head nurse of Providence Hospital, her resigned her position.

Miss Frances M. Quaife has resigned her position as superintendent of the Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, La., having served the institution in that capacity for ten years.

The cause of resignation is due to the fact that the Board of Managers have engaged a male superintendent. Miss Quaife will return to her home in New York City for a much-needed rest.

Miss Bertha Rowe, who has been in charge of the work of the District Nurse Association, Middletown, Conn., since its organization, has handed her resignation to the officers of the association, and it will go into effect at once. Miss Rowe will take a rest for a time and will then probably take up private nursing. The work of the association will go on as usual and for the present will be in charge of the assistant.

Miss Jane Delano, head of the Nurses' Training School of Bellevue Hospital, resigned her position a month ago. The Bellevue trustees decided, in view of the efficient work of Miss

Delano in the past, not to accept the resignation, but to grant to her a six months' leave of absence. Miss Delano will spend her vacation in Florida.

Miss J. Florence M. Perry has resigned as matron at Heaton Hospital, Montpelier, Vt., which position she has filled for the past two years. Miss Perry desires her resignation to take effect as soon as her place can be filled.

The Board of Health of Indianapolis, Ind., has decided that Miss McDougall, formerly matron at the City Dispensary, should be the assistant superintendent of nurses at the City Hospital.

Miss Henrietta B. Chisholm has resigned as superintendent of the Melrose, Mass., hospital, after a service of two years, the resignation to take effect April 25. She is to return to the Exeter hospital as superintendent.

Miss Georgia L. Locke, a graduate of Memorial Hospital Training School for Nurses, Worcester, Mass., gave a talk before thirty-five mothers March 7 in the Adams Square kindergarten, on "How to Care for a Sick Child." Miss Locke gave a demonstration with a hospital bed and showed how to give a bath to the child in bed, how to make poultices and bandages.

Miss Nellie Davis, superintendent of nurses, Soules Hospital, Westfield, N. Y., was operated upon for appendicitis recently by Dr. Soules, and at the time of going to press is doing nicely, to the great gratification of her pupils and other friends.

Miss Edith Klapp has left Minneapolis, to do private work in Omaha, Neb.

Miss E. H. Orr, Minneapolis, has taken a position in Franklin Hospital, Franklin, Pa.

Miss Edith G. Lings has left Minneapolis to take charge of the hospital in Oakes, N. D.

Miss Margaret S. Wood has resigned her position as head nurse at the Cambria Hospital, Johnstown, Pa., and is taking a trip through Canada. She intends remaining a short time in Sydney (with her sister) and other parts of Nova Scotia.

Among the students taking the winter course in massage, medical gymnastics and electricity at the Pennsylvania Orthopædic Institute and

School of Mechano-therapy, Philadelphia, are the following nurses:

Miss E. J. Beauchamp, Montreal, Canada (Western Hospital, Montreal, Canada).

Miss E. S. Clifton, Gore, Va. (Western Maryland Hospital, Cumberland, Maryland).

Miss M. Japes, Buffalo, N. Y. (Homeopathic Hospital, Buffalo, N. Y.).

Miss Caroline Gull, Chestnut Hill, Pa. (Sisterhouse of the Red Cross, Zurich, Switzerland). Miss I. M. Rambo, Indianapolis, Ind. (Wabash County Hospital, Wabash, Ind.).

Miss Emma N. Short, Baltimore, Md. (Maryland Homeopathic Hospital Training School for Nurses).

Obituary

Mrs. Louise Wendeler, a graduate of the class of 1893 of the St. Louis Protestant Hospital Training School for Nurses, died after a short illness, at the Centenary Hospital, February 28, 1906.

Mrs. Wendeler was a capable nurse and was esteemed by all who knew her.

Died at the Lowell General Hospital, Lowell, Mass., January 29, 1906, Miss Lillian Rayner, of typhoid fever, contracted while performing her duty. Miss Rayner was a graduate of the Lowell General Hospital Training School for Nurses, class 1905.

The body was taken to her home for burial, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

At the last regular meeting of the Alumnæ Association of the Lowell General Hospital Training School, the following resolutions were adopted:

Whereas, A wise and just Providence has seen fit to remove from our midst our beloved friend and sister; therefore be it

Resolved, That we, the members of the Alumnæ Association, do herewith express our deepest sorrow, and appreciation of her sterling qualities, her genial and loving disposition, and her loyalty to her profession.

Resolved, That we extend to her relatives and friends our deepest sympathy for them in their great affliction.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to her bereaved family, placed on the minutes of this association and published in the magazines of nursing. SADIE E. HUNTOON, MARY E. PATTERSON, PAMELA S. ONELLETTE, Committee.

The Employing of Graduate Nurses in Hospitals DEAR EDITOR: A great deal is heard nowadays about the improved system of training for nurses in our hospitals, but one point has, I believe, been overlooked. The training given nurses now is much better than it was some five years ago, but still the average nurse of to-day is not so good as the average nurse of five years ago. Why? Too many nurses are being turned out. More nurses are needed every year to meet the increasing demands of hospitals, large and small, and those hospitals are endeavoring to have their nursing done as cheaply as possible, hence, the increase in the number of nurses in training.

The probationers for these institutions are being chosen from waiting lists-woefully small, compared with what they were some years agoand the results are what their needs must be: superintendents of training schools are confronted with the problem of filling, say, ten vacancies from a list of, we'll say, ten candidates, more than half of whom are either under age, under size, delicate, illiterate or otherwise incompetent. What is usually done? The vacancies are filled with the incompetents, because the hospital management will not face the situation, when it means an increased expenditure; and those incompetents go on, and, finally, graduate -unless they kill some patient or die themselves before the day of graduation arrives.

They are thus launched out on the sea of professional life, to lower the standards of nursing and to be a burden to doctors, to patients and to themselves. For, mark you, be the training ever so perfect, the impossibility of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear is every whit as impossible, to-day, as it was a hundred years ago.

The time has come in the history of hospitals when the greater part of the nursing should be done by experienced, responsible graduates and the smaller part, only, by nurses in training. The results would be wholly satisfactory. Patients would, with reason, have more confidence in the hospital treatment, both from the fact that there would be more experienced women nursing them, and also from the fact that the nurses in

training, being picked women, would inspire, naturally, more confidence than a number of incompetent women. Better care would be taken of the sick, fewer mistakes would be made, and more intelligent economy would be practised in every department.

The nurses in training would learn, unconsciously, from the graduates all those thoughtful little attentions and niceties of treatment that mean so much to the sick and dying, and in which our hospital nursing is usually so sadly lacking.

Not so many nurses would be graduated annually, it is true, but the supply would meet the demand and the quality would be much better than it is at present and the nursing profession would draw nearer the goal of perfection, toward which it has been struggling so bravely for so many years of its life.

Let the hospital training schools but look to their probationers and all will be well: "Ce n'est que le premier pas qui coute!"

MARY ARD MACKENZIE, R.N.

An Interesting Experience

DEAR EDITOR: May I write and tell you how much I enjoy THE TRAINED NURSE? Its arrival is eagerly waited for each month. I always enjoy the different articles, and find information which is a great help in my private practice. Especially valuable is the prize article on "The Nursing and Care of the Insane."

May I tell you of a recent experience?

I was resting at the home of a patient, after a hard typhoid case, and was happy in the thought that just for one Christmas I was "off duty" and would know a bit of home life at the happy Yuletide, when a knock came at the kitchen door and a tired, worried looking man told us in a troubled manner that he had heard a trained nurse was visiting here, and he called to see if she would please come and care for his wife. He was unable to pay the regular price, yet was so in need of some good help. He had been caring for her and five children, thus losing time from work. The story appealed to me and I left my Christmas