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Title: Florence Nightingale : a biography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Matheson, Annie, 1853-
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 Evatt, George Joseph Hamilton, b. 1843 Nurses
Publisher: London Edinburgh New York : Thomas Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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y should be pure in every sense, pure in bodyand mind. Boys and girls must grow up healthy, withclean minds and clean bodies and clean skins. And for this to be possible, the air, theearth, and the water that they grow up in andhave around them must be clean. Fresh air,not bad air ; clean earth, not foul earth ; purewater, not dirty water ; and the first teachingsand impressions that they have at home mustall be pure, and gentle, and firm. It is homethat teaches the child, after all, more than anyother schooling. A child learns before it is threewhether it shall obey its mother or not ; andbefore it is seven, wise men tell us that itscharacter is formed. There is, too, another thing—orderliness.We know your daily toil and love. May notthe busiest and hardest life be somewhat light-ened, the day mapped out, so that each duty hasthe same hours ? . . . Think what enormous extra trouble it entailson mothers when there is sickness. It is worthwhile to try to keep the family in health, to
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FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE. 321 prevent the sorrow, the anxiety, the trouble ofillness in the house, of which so much can beprevented. When a child has lost its health, how oftenthe mother says, Oh, if I had only known !but there was no one to tell me. And afterall, it is health and not sickness that is ournatural state—the state that God intends for us.There are more people to pick us up when wefall than to enable us to stand upon our feet.God did not intend all mothers to be accom-panied by doctors, but He meant all childrento be cared for by mothers. God bless yourwork and labour of love. Or in a widely different field, in that fightagainst one of the most important causes ofconsumption, in which she was so far ahead ofher time, what could be more clear and con-vincing, both in knowledge and in reasoning, thanthe following analysis with regard to armybarracks :— The cavalry barracks, as a whole, are the least overcrowded, and have the freest external(i,»64) 21 322 FLORENCE NIGHTINGA

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