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Show I have no especially outstanding news to give of my own movements, to satisfy those who write, "Please tell something about yourself !! !" The after-effects of last winter's flu are with me yet, but I have much less pain in my heart than I did, and with a few limitations such as running up stairs, or doing heavy lifting. I shall hope to "be good as I kin be" this winter. The class schedule is a fairly heavy one, as the national examinations come in December, and many topics must be covered before then, with the Seniors. Miss; Jevne will help this year with the incoming class, and to have such help "delivered on the Bund", as a well-known missionary often remarks, brings added courage. Friends often write, "What, do you need most?" We have printed the little leaflet, "Seven constant needs", which many of you have received. Of these things, the patients' nightshirts are something that will never come amiss. We never have enough! The patterns may be procured either from me direct or from the W. B. M. I. Rooms., 19 South La Salle St., Chicago. They are easy to make, and will often interest a group of women, who would not care to give money outright. As for myself ! ! my needs are not so many,-I like all the things you l i k e ! ' ! ! By the way, if there are any of you who do not save your magazines for files, please remember us. Our salaries do not reach around buying many new ones (outside our professional ones, which we must have), and your old ones will always be appreciated. Just follow the career of one such ! ! ! You read it, or perhaps it goes around your club. You send it to me. I read, and share with the; station friends, Then the pretty covers may get framed for the wards, or make book covers for the nurses' textbooks. The pictures within- amuse a weary patient, Finally, the pages are cut up into convenient sizes and sent to the; out-patient, department, to wrap the tablets given to patients. You may follow these papers to the various homes in your own imagination, and see what has been wrought for the price of the postage out here! ! ! For those; of you who ask "just what my money can do", here are a few suggestions. Fifty dollars a year will support a third class patient's bed. Financial misfortune has recently cut off a. much appreciated gift of one hundred and twenty five dollars, yearly, for the support, of a bed, at second class rates, for pupil nurses when ill. One hundred dollars a year will train such. a. pupil, (how not to be ill !). From cue hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars, according to the length of time since graduation, pays the salary of a Chinese graduate nurse, one of our big needs. Smaller gifts, I need not say, are never amiss, for they are the "little grains of sand". May I give you the verse, in closing, that I gave this year's graduating class at their farewell service? "God, who hath sealed us, and given the earnest, of the Spirit in our hearts". Thank you. each one, for all you mean to me, and our work, His work, in prayer, love, and loyal support. Yours, for "better babies", "better nurses", and a "better world", MYKA L. SAWYER, R.N |