The District Nurse and Her Gentle Battle for Health
The district nurse is an indispensable figure in fighting disease, blending nursing with education to promote health and keep families intact when breadwinners fall ill. Since the late 19th century her work has grown to reach about 4000 families, with roughly 1000 visits daily, inspiring a community fundraising appeal for Boston’s district nursing association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Education Association of
Boston
Boston Instructive
District Nursing Association
The Green Carpet Grass and Earths Hidden Power
The piece extols grass as nature’s constant benediction surviving winter, healing battle scars, reclaiming abandoned streets, and shaping climates and nations. It celebrates grass as enduring, unobtrusive, and essential to earth.
Training Changes Reflect Women’s Shifting Roles
The Christian Science Monitor recalls how past thought leaders rallied for higher education for women. Sidney Smith argues against limiting a girl to a single trivial path, urging broad cultivation of talent and curiosity to advance society and reform movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Science Monitor
Sidney Smith
Questioning a Woman's Role in History and Reasoning
The speaker questions why a woman should be diminished to a mere admirer of birds and butterflies and deprived of history and reason. She asks why books and rational study should be torn from her hand and why she should be left to idle ornament.
Richest French Woman Lebaudy Wealth Believed High
Mme Lebaudy, mother of Jacques Emperor of Sihara, is thought to be worth at least 40 million dollars. She hides wealth in an assumed name and lives in Versailles with one servant. She donates most income anonymously and reportedly funds the annual deficit of a leading French royal paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frau Krupp
Germany
Mme. Lebaudy
Jacques
Sihara
London Chronicle
Versailles
Mme. Lebauds
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F. O. B. Dearborn, Mich
Fordson
Ford‘son
Sidney Motor Company
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