Journeys through Bookland : a new and original plan for reading applied to the world's best literature for children (1922)
Sylvester, Charles Herbert · Chicago : Bellows-Reeve · leaf 32
new her inEngland. It was all right, they declared, for Ger-man peasants to be trained as nurses—peasantswere expected to wait upon other people; but foran English lady of wealth and refinement to placeherself in a position where she might be called uponto serve those below her in station—the thing… … Florence Nightingale 17 among the blue-gowned, white-capped peasant girlsthere. Soon the heads of the institution came todepend upon her for help such as the other studentscould not render, and her companions grew to loveher very tenderly. A friend of Miss Nightingaleswho visited Kaiserwerth years…
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