A LADY NURSE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 120, 23 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)

A LADY NURSE IN SOUTH AFRICA.

Feminine society throughout India

is reported (says " The Sketch ) to be clamouring for the life of a Calcutta editor who inserted the following story in a recent edition of his paper.

Among the contingent of volunteer "nurses" in South Africa, was (so runs the anecode ) a certain lady from Simla, who, for her constant defiance of the medical regulations was not greatly beloved by the military medicos with whom she came

in contact. Serenely indifferent to this, however, she continued to feed enteric patients on chocolate-creams and smuggle cigarettes into surgical wards to her heart's content, and generally contrived to make herself anything but "a ministering angel " to the unfortunate invalids. Going one day to the bedside of her favourite hero, she found him snoring blissfully with a piece of paper on which was scrawled "Too ill to be nussed to-day " pinned to his pillow. -

Methylated Spirits is always refreshing, and a tonic to the feet.

Roughened Hands.—A little braa and milk or vinegar will make the hands smooth and clean after dishwashing or any other work that roughens them. Well wash the hands first with, soap and water.

Wash for a Blotched Face.—Rosewater, three ounces ; sulphate of zinc, one dracham, mix, wet the face with it gently dry, kml then touch over with cold cream with tips of fingers and gently dry off.