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    1- A Seventeenth Century Prayer Thomas Elwood 2
]     Beyond the Mountains 36
 til t : if   Deiphinium in Winter Elizabeth Hollins 8
  i  (`_  Field Notes 41
i f In Memoriam 14
  Old Courier News 20
  Old Staff News 31
  Reminiscences Hnguette Merchiers 25
 g "There Is a Tide in the Affairs of Men" Betty Ann Bradbury 3
l  l Urgent Needs 9
[ 4 VY  Wiggly Jane Leigh Powell 18
  W§gg1y—-illustrated Inside Back Cover
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  Comments and Corrections 7
    Frustrated Young Man in Love Private Enterprise 40
  How Flies Resist DDT Science Digest 19
    Just Jokes 40
    Letter of Commendation The Thonsandsticks 24
  IE Measurements to Fit The Canadian Nurse 35
  J My Chicken Bone Anna May January 30
M ' Thunder The Thonsandsticks 13
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O +ha+ mine eyes migh+ closed be  
To wha+ concerns me n0+ +0 see;  
Tha+ dea+ness migh+ possess mine ear  
T0 wha+ concerns me n0+ +0 hear; ; 
`I-ha+ +ru+h my +0ngue migh+ always +ie  j
From ever speaking +o0lishly;  
Tha+ no vain +h0ugh+ migh+ ever res+  
Or be conceived wi+hin my breas+;  
Tha+ by each deed and w0rd and +h0ugh+ gl
Glory may +0 my God be brough+. 7;
Bu+ wha+ are wishes! Lord, mine eye  
On +hee is +ixed; +0 +hee l cry!  
Wash. Lord, and puri+y my hear+,  
And make i+ clean in every par+; i
And when `+is clean. Lord. keep i+, +00. ii
Eor +his is more +han l can d0. A  
——Th0mas Elwood, A. D. I639. ‘°

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  “THERE IS A TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN"
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  BETTY ANN BRADBIIRY, R.N., c.M.
  Possum Bend Nursing Center
j ‘ The river is rising steadily. The rain has stopped, but great
masses of débris are being carried downstream by the swiftly
; moving current. As long as there is débris in the river, the folks
; tell me, it is a sure sign the river is rising. This will probably
A be a big tide.
l Perhaps it is strange to those who do not know this section
p   of country that so much importance is attached to the river. We
  .` learn early that the river is almost a standard by which we live
l ._ and work. We watch the water carefully for we know that when
§§ the river is high, the creeks may be even higher in proportion
  to their size. We also learn, and sometimes cruelly, that only
[r a few hours are needed to change the river from its peaceful,
if normal self into a raging tide. In a flash, it seems, the creeks
I; and river can become totally unmanageable. And so, we watch
“‘ the river carefully, and even fearfully sometimes, because we
  know that when it is impossible to ford the river or travel up
i the creeks, we must walk over several mountains, along narrow,
EY rocky paths to reach our patients who live just a short distance
if _ by the creek route. We know, too, that if a medical or midwifery
  emergency should occur during a river rampage, then, in some
cl cases, all hope of getting the patient out to our hospital must
  be abandoned and we must do what we can ourselves-—knowing
3, that the doctor’s arrival could be hours and hours away,
¥ It was just like that two weeks ago when Nancy was asked
  to make a sick call up Bill’s Branch. A young boy had been
; kicked in the face and head by a mule and was "bad off"—we
Vg; we sitting down to supper at the time of the call. I volunteered
I to go along to help, and to drive the jeep the three miles down
T, the river road to the mouth of the branch. Nancy is always
jl telling me that Bill’s Branch in her district is fully as rough as
" Hell-for-Certain Creek in my district—here was an opportunity
  to iind out!
  Just as we were backing the jeep out of the barn, the rain
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groans of, "I don’t like this," and grunts of "We’ll never make Ii?
it," we began the three-mile down river trip. Fortunately there  
were four able-bodiedmen in the back of the jeep. They had _
come for us and kept us cheered with, "These poor nurses——hit’s  
a sight the way they has to go out in weather like this," and  
"He shore is bad off, that young’un is—why that mule like to  
have killed him. His skull b0ne’s a’showin’ and he’s bled a sight." [
Nancy and I were almost certain that we would have to get .‘l
the boy to our Hyden Hospital—somehow—from the description 1  
the men gave us. But the rain was more insistent and we knew -
it would not take much to get the river over its banks. The l
mouth of Bill’s Branch is on the other side of the river, which il
means we had to cross the river in order to trudge the mile and $ .
a half up the branch to the boy’s home. We came to a section  
of the road that was covered with dead branches and rubble. E;
Jeeps are truly remarkable and will go most anywhere, but I V
knew this jeep would have to fly before we could get beyond this  
rubble. "Put ’er in 4-wheel drive and try it," the men said. I  
was already travelling in 4-wheel drive, but knew they meant  
tractor-pull, so with little confidence in getting out of this Yi
situation, I fixed the gears and shouted to the men, "You’1l have  
to get us out of here if we get stuck !"  
Very slowly we started forward, hearing the branches crack  
and the rubble give under us, then, umph! The left front wheel  
sank into a hole. So, the men went to work. They removed  
branches and trash that were in the way, and then literally  
lifted the front end of the jeep out of the hole and on to firm  
ground. Then they filled in the hole and told me to try again. _ _,
Holding my breath I drove forward slowly. Suddenly, with  
unbelief, I felt solid ground beneath us and realized we’d made it.  g
The rest of the jeep trip, aside from skidding and zig-zagging in  
the mud and finding a dead tree in the road—which the men ;}
removed—was uneventful. We parked the jeep and waded .  
through thick mud to the river bank where a boat was tied. We  
could see that the river was indeed rising. The rain was still I
coming steadily and, at this particular ford, the current was  
swift.  
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_ thing always appears much worse. It took much bailing to empty
  the half—submerged boat before we got in, and then it took the
  most vigorous paddling I’ve yet seen to get us across. (I knew
  we would be in for a good long boat ride if the man paddling ever
` let the current gain control of the boat!) But we made it.
Qt Now all that was left was the walk up Bill’s Branch. There
1   were only two iiashlights for four of us (two of the men stayed
- behind), which made for much stumbling and slipping. For a
l while the path led along the side of the creek, which was filling
il rapidly, with a rushing, roaring sound. But then we found our-
  selves splashing right in the creek, the water often way up over
li our boot tops. At one point, half-way to our destination from
Ej the mouth of the branch, the men led the way through a corn- c
V field and across a small foot bridge over the creek. Just as I was
  about to yell to Nancy to shine the light so I could see to cross
  the bridge (I was at the rear of the quartet), Nancy and the
  light crashed through the rotten bridge—right plum through
Yi the middle of it! Her feet and legs were in the rushing creek
  below and she up to her armpits in bridge——such a sight she
  was! It happened so suddenly; it was like a trap door opening
TQ and, in a split second, there was Nancy, like a prisoner in the
  stocks of Colonial times! We have both had many good laughs
  over the situation since then, but at the time it was far from
  funny. To think these men had let us walk over a rotten bridge!
  "But, hit held us," they said, and then I knew it wasn’t their
_ ___ fault—"it was just one of those things."
  Nancy scrambled out, a little wetter but unscathed. By now
  the rain was torrential. The creek was swollen to three times
  its normal size. There would be no possibility of getting the boy
;j out to Hyden Hospital. We would have to do our best, under the
  circumstances, to make him comfortable. But we knew in our
  hearts that he was surely a doctor’s case.
_ Nancy took over when we were, at last, with Jack—but I
  had a chance to see him. His face and forehead were swollen
  badly, there was evidence that his nose had bled profusely, and
`  U he was barely able to speak. The family had put a bandage
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the tissue was torn and the "skull bone" was visible. A stitching l
job was clearly indicated, but, as we knew, an impossibility  
without a doctor. He had been unconscious for several hours ~;
after the accident, and naturally we were afraid of skull fracture T
or concussion. Several teeth were knocked loose and there was  
also the possibility of a fractured jaw. So many indications for 1
hospitalization! But we knew we could never get him out of  
the creek. Any attempt to move him would have made the ry
situation that much worse.    
I dumped the water out of my boots and got close to the  
Hre in an attempt to dry my wet clothes, while Nancy worked  
over Jack—a very courageous, uncomplaining young man of I
sixteen. He was hurt badly; his eyes were almost swollen shut, `
and yet he never so much as moaned or whimpered—I shall  4
never forget his bravery. The recuperative powers of a husky  ·
adolescent are sometimes unbelievable. Amazingly enough, in g
spite of the shock to his system and the blood loss, his pulse  i
and blood pressure were normal. Although it was diiiicult for  .
him to speak on account of his jaw wounds, he was alert and  
perfectly aware of his surroundings and his plight. Nancy  
cleaned and dressed the scalp wound and gave him an anti-  jp.
tetanus injection and some pills to ease the pain, as authorized  _;`
in our Medical Routine; then we discussed with the family the  ll
possibility of getting Jack out to Hyden Hospital. But we knew  
the weather must iirst give us permission. There was nothing  is
more we could do except to offer up a little prayer of thanks-  
giving that Jack was no worse than he was.  jp:
Then the long weary, wet trip back! We were careful not  ,{
. to attempt a crossing at Nancy’s bridge on the way down the  
creek to the river. Just in the short time we had been in the Q 
house, the river had risen immeasurably and was, of course,  4
way beyond crossing in a boat. This necessitated a walk of  j°
another mile to the Mosely Bend swinging bridge, and then back  Q!
up the other side of the river to the jeep. When we reached the _,
"bad place" I held my breath (this, for some reason always `l
seems to help in difficult situations!) and tried to keep in our `·
, previous tracks. Slowly we got through that awful mess, and  
safely across the Mouth of Wilder, and then home. y y
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  Hospital. On one of her visits to him, she had pulled the skin
ii edges of the scalp wound together with adhesive tape butter-
  flies——the next best thing to stitches. Our medical director
_j reported the wound healing well, and x-rays showed no fracture.
—l The doctor felt sure that the loose teeth would become firmly
  rooted again, in time. Just today, as I was writing this, Jack
l` came to the nursing center to have a final examination. The
{Q area around his scalp wound is still a wee bit swollen. But the
  wound itself has healed beautifully and the scar appears no
l worse than if it had been sutured. Jack looks and feels fine.
  With the exception of one slightly loose tooth, he is now as
A E good as new.
l The débris has stopped traveling down the river, and the
 , old Middlefork has calmed down considerably since I began
 - writing this. But I still keep a watchful eye on that river. Nancy
 { says she will not worry about it until the water gets up to our
 j second story windows. But I am a bit more conservative than
  Nancy.
 *1 COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
 g It looks as though this column will have to be printed in
1  every issue of our Bulletin. We do proofread our galleys and
    there should not be mistakes. But there always are!
 3, Those of you who keep a file of these quarterlies—-—and
 _{ this includes all the libraries which subscribe—please turn to
 i the last line on page 45 of the Winter Bulletin and change the
 lz name from Miss Price to Miss Pise.
 I, In the same Bulletin, please turn to A Sequence on Slander
 j° on page 6, the first paragraph of which should read as follows:
 ~; Detraction is one of the principal forms of self-promotion,
" and those that cannot reach the citadel themselves, must clam-
.: ber up over the bodies of their companions who have taken it.
  (The word taken was left out.)
` l So much for the Corrections. As to Comments, we beg you
  to continue your kind indulgence toward this amateur magazine.
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DELPHINIUM IN WINTER  
I heard about this almost by rumor. A friend said, "My  
daughter went to stay with some people and they had beautiful ,
bunches of delphinium about the house, and in the middle of the K
winter! They cut them in their fullest perfection and dried them il
upside down in the attic or the cellar—I can’t remember which." ° {1
That was all I had to go on. .  
I could not bear to cut the delphinium until just before I  
went away for the summer. Then I cut them—all those that  
were at the peak of their bloom, but not beginning to fall yet. gi
I hung half of them upside down in the cellar and half——having  
no attic-—in a room in the barn. (The cellar lot mildewed so I •
will dismiss them.) * Y
Just before departure——about two days after cutting them- f
I went to see how my barn lot were getting on. They had not Q
shed petals at all but had wilted so that (through gravity) the ·
individual ilorets hung too close in to the main stem in an __
unnatural way. I turned them right side up and gently bent the .
fiorets into a natural position (the fine stems were pliable—not —*
yet brittle). Those that I judged would hold this position upright gl
I arranged in a vase—without water of course—and left them  
to continue their drying. Those that had not dried at all and  
I feared might simply flop downward, I hung upside down again. l  
Then I went away for six weeks. il
On my return I found those in the barn in the vase had dried i
nicely, and made a pleasant bouquet all winter. The others were  
again with the iiorets too close to the stem——though not as close  
as the first time I had rearranged them. ”i
My barn room had, perforce, been shut up. It was terribly Qt
hot. No circulation of air at all. If I had provided better condi- lf
tions the _delphinium would have dried better. Also, if I had cut I
them earlier—and had had about a week in which to visit them I
now and then and bend the delicate stems while drying into good ‘·
positions—results would have been more even. _y
The leaves of the delphinium shrivel up to nothing and I jj
break most of them off. The blue colors, however, hold almost T]
perfectly, nor do the petals shed. They do not equal fresh del- `,
phinium, because the fine dried stems and the papery texture F)
give a ghost-like feeling. But, in the winter, they have done me  
very well and I shall repeat it this year.  if
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V URGENT NEEDS
  Here are our urgent needs for the new fiscal year, and they
·   are all of them terribly urgent.
{A It is a pleasure to report that two of the most urgent—-
  Jeeps, to replace two 8-year-old jeeps—have been given by two
A  of our trustees. So, they are not listed.
  Q As all of you know, most of the work on our vast and widely
( scattered properties has to be done during the months of summer
• and early autumn. We hope that even more of you than usual
” E will choose a need to give us in honor of our Thirtieth Birthday.
. There is something to fit each purse, from a 10—quart milk bucket
Q at $1.50, on up and up!
A We welcome each gift with enthusiasm. It is dear of you all
.. to care about our needs.
A HYDEN HOSPITAL
»; 1. Fire Detection Alarm System—Fire Safety Requirement:
  equipment and installation—estimated ........................................ $ 742.00
  2. Main Water Line—Hospital to Joy House: to replace 315’ of
1 %" corroded line, too weak to survive another wet season-
  pipe, fittings, connections, ditching-—materia1s and labor—
l   estimated ............................................................................................ 500.00
;. 3. Rip-rap Retaining Wall—Between Hospital and Annex: rebuilt
{ (wall collapsed) after heavy rains—cement and labor .......... 337.02
¤ 4. Surface D1·ains·—Repa.ired: cement and labor ................................ 37.00
`§ 5. Children’s Ward—Utility Room: cabinet sink with double
El drai.nboards—to replace fiat-rim sink and rotten wooden
  cupboards and counter tops—estimated ...................................... 250.00
Y 6. Wee Stone House (Isolation Ward)—2 Portable Steam Heat-
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.. ers: for use when patients need oxygen and fireplace cannot
_ be used———estimated ............................................................................ 210.00
1 7. Old Lavatory-lst Floor—Vented: to comply with require-
.4 ments for hospitals—materials and labor———estimated .............. 50.00
· 8. Basement—Electric Ineinerator: for disposal of soiled dress-
. ings et cetera——installed ................................................................ 104.00
L 9. Operating Room——0xygen Tank Truck: quoted @ ...................... 30.95
· 10. Wards-Portable Ice Chest: quoted @ ............................................ 35.00
._ 11. C1inic—Nylonite Mattress Cover: ...................................................... 9.30
»·‘ 12. Wards—0ld Mattresses Made Over: 9 @ $10.00 each .................. 90.00
QZ 13. Operating Room and Delivery Room—Lights: 2 reiiectors re-
f p1aced—estimated ............................................................................ 60.00
‘; 14. Pipe Threaders—For 2%" to 4" Pipe: to make it possible for
. our men to repair main water lines—quoted @ .................... 98.75
15. Fire Extinguishers-—Class "A": to meet requirement of Na-
fj tional Board of Fire UnderWriters—2 quoted @ $46.50 each.. 93.00
 .6,/ MARGARET VOORHIES HAGGIN QUARTERS FOR NURSES
  1. Heating System—Hot Water Type: 2 circulating motors re-
; placed-motors and installation ....... ‘ ............................................. $ 116.28
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2. Stone (Brick-lined) Outside Rubbish Burner—Repaired and §{
Remodeled: to meet specifications of National Board of i
Fire Underwriters—4" concrete roof, concrete floor, chimney »,`
and spark arrester added—materials and labor—estimated.. 125.00 li
3. Interior Painting: kitchen, living room on first floor; 7 nurses’  
bedrooms—paint and labor—estimated ...................................... 200.00 **5
4. Food Supply Room—Electrie Circuit: for old refrigerator to F
be connected—materials and labor-estimated ........................ 75.00 ,
5. Employee’s Cottage—To be Reconditioned for Cook: carpentry
repairs, painting interior, creosoting exterior, et cetera—
materials and labor—estimated ...................................................... 200.00
6. Electric Rauge—Replacing 2 Surface Units: units and instal- V  
lation ................................................................,................................. 31.80 i `
7. Blanket Binding for All-Wool Mill Ends: for nurses’ beds ...,.... 6.76 ii
8. Towel Racks: 6 @ 50c each ................................................................ 3.00 i
MARDI COTTAGE ' ’
Midwives Quarters I
1. Ladder Back Side Chairs: for dining room table and for lec- {
tures—8 @ $10.50 each ........................................................,........... $ 84.00 -
2. Heating System: replacing worn-out motor on fan ...................... 57.35 ;
3. B8.tllf00m—AShBSt0S Tile: to replace worn-out linoleum—ma— ,
terials and labor—estimated .......................................................... 25.00  
4. Painting—-Interior: living room and 5 students’ bedrooms- ‘*
materials and labor painting ceilings (students painted -
walls) .................................................................................................. 70.32 Q,
5. Back Porch—Screened Food Cupboard: materials and labor ...... 22.09 ,.
6. Employee’s Cottage—Interior Painting: paint (put on by .
cook’s son) .......................................................................................... 23.03 {
7. Fire Extinguishe1·—Class "A": to meet requirements of Na- J
tional Board of Fir