TOO ILL TO BE NURSED.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 49, 27 July 1908, Page 7

TOO ILL TO BE NURSED.

The prevailing talk of hospital reform reminds me of* a good story told by a certain divine who presided at a class of nurses.

He said that a certain hospital had a corps of nurses of exceptional beauty—Just such a corps, in fact, as the young ladies ranged before him would have made.

But it was whispered that these fair nurses were inclined a little to frivolity, inclined a little to flirt with the patients in their charge. Now, when a patient felt that tie was on the mend, a flirtation with a pretty nurse was delightful ; but when his wounds were troublesome, then gallantry was a thing that he was hardly up to.

And, indeed, it was said that sometimes a pretty nurse in his hospital would come to a favourite patient and find him lying with closed eyes, as if asleep, on his cot, and this notei pinned to the counterpane : “Too ill to be nursed to-day.—J. Smith."