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MRS. MORRIS B. BELKNAP, National Chairman
MRS. MARY BRECKINRIDGE, Director
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THE QUARTERLY BULLETIN af ERONTIER NURSING SERVICE, Inc.
Published Quarterly by the Frontier Nursing Service, Lexington, Ky. 1
Subscription Price $1.00 Por Year ,»
VOLUME 27 SPRING. 1952 NUMBER 4  
"Ent0red as second class matter June 30. 1926. at the Post Othrc nt Imxiiigton, Ky.,
under Act of March 3, 1879." '
Copyright, 1952, Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.
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 . INDEX
ARTICLE AUTHOR PAGE
A Baby Elephant Oryx 16
t Adventure with Mr. Turveydrop
(Illustrated) Mary Balch 12
Beyond the Mountains 49
it  Chaos at Midwives Quarters J ane Fnrnas 46
r Field Notes 63
I Harriet Produces a Calf Selby Brown 35
l Home Delivery Technique (Illustrated) Betty Lester 17
i' Old Courier News 27
5 Old Staff News 37
  Orientation Jane McQnate ` 25
l~ 4 Redemption (A Poem) George Herbert 2
._ Saturdays Child Anna May January 3
` Silver Star 48
 rz Urgent Needs 21
°; Wide Neighborhoods—A Report
(Illustrated) 7
  BRIEF BITS
i A Chicken Crisis 19
  A Mountain Child (Photograph) 36
  Children of the Michaelis’ (Photograph) 5
  Four Old Grads (Photographs) 6
g "Home Sweet Home" 26
l How’s That? U. S. News and World Report 15
’  If Thou Hast (Verse) Goethe 67
l Pack Horse Days The C0u.ntryman 20
_ Pernicious Power Nature. Magazine 20
_  _ Sayingsof the Children 36
1 Solle’s Bookshop 45
yl ·· Surfeit 11
E To Robin 47
*4 What I Believe William Jason Mixter 34
` White Elephant 62
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a photograph. Our Chairman there, Mrs. Robert Livingston Ire- ‘ ,
land, wrote us in connection with the picture:
"Your couriers Betsy Brown, Bonita Barnes and Katie [Ire-
land] sent out the enclosed [a personal note from her] to the
invitation list of 800; they did all the work of addressing, stuff- Q
ing and sealing besides getting the list up to date. Mr. Korner —‘
says that many people have responded to the card and have ,
ordered Wide N eighborhoodsf ,
Our Rochester, N. Y., Committee, through the enthusiastic EE
efforts of its Chairman, Mrs. Karl Wilson, its Honorary Chair- lg
man, Miss Helen Rochester Rogers, and its Secretary, Mrs. John "
Schilling (courier, Barbara Whipple) got such cooperation from J
Mr. Harry A. Holmlund, President of Scrantom’s Book and Sta-  
tionery Company that a window there was devoted to a display
of Wide Neighborhoods for a week at publication time. About »
this display Barbara Whipple Schilling wrote as follows: _
"You would have hooted if you could have seen what I went  
through to get the necessary props for the window display l
Scrantom’s was having in conjunction with the publication date. ,
Polly Pearse loaned he1· saddle. Dr. Radabovitch loaned his
bridle—John borrowed a hypo and stethoscope from the hospital. .
That was easy. The real snag came trying to find saddlebags! ,
I tried every conceivable and inconceivable place and called all _
friends who might know. Finally, the night before the display  
was to be put in someone suggested the Rochester Historical ’.
Society. Can you believe it! They were the only ones in town  ,
to have any."
Through our Louisville Chairman, Mrs. Marshall Bullitt,  
Stewart’s bookstore arranged a display of Wide Neighborhoods  
throughout the week when the Kentucky Education Associa-  -
l tion was meeting in Louisville, and the Wilderness Bookshop in  
  Louisville also featured our book.  ;
I Our Chicago Chairman, Mrs. T. Kenneth Boyd, made a  
I personal visit to the book department of Marshall Field’s with  
the result that its head, Mr. Bangs, arranged to send out what  ,‘`
Harper calls "flyers" to our Chicago lists, and also to his own {
list of regular book buyers. Through Mrs. Roger K. Rogan in  
Cincinnati and the Secretary of our Cincinnati Committee, our  l
old courier Dorothy Caldwell, Kidd’s bookstore did the same ,
thing. These personal notices were sent out also by the Morris
, Bookshop and the David Hunt Bookshop in Lexington, Kentucky,  T
I as well as a number of bookshops in New York, Philadelphia and  
l New England. They all brought in large advance orders for  
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¤ Our Minneapolis Chairman, Mrs. George Chase Christian,
not only brought the attention of the book promptly to the
Minneapolis Sunday Tribune editor, an old friend of hers, so that
; it was reviewed almost at once but she and Mrs. Lyndon King
" (who as Betty Washburn had been one of our volunteer nurse
,' workers) both gave personal interviews to Mary Miller for her
C column "About People," where not only our book but the Fron— V
  tier Nursing Service was beautifully handled.
_“ Our Hazard, Ky., Committee, of which Mrs. W. W. Reeves
J, is Chairman, has a unique position in that the members are
  allowed to sell the book individually and as a group. The reason
H for this lies in the fact that there is no bookstore at Hazard.
» Our publishers have given the Frontier Nursing Service the
 ! same special status, on a cash and carry basis, because there `
 ’§ is no bookstore in our territory. The Hazard Committee has
l already sold 70 copies. The Frontier Nursing Service, through
` its Hyden and Wendover ofiices and its Outpost Centers has
( already sold more than 250 copies to its own local leading
  citizens, its staff, and visitors from the outside who stop off
  to see the Hyden Hospital.
 . It isn’t possible to tell of all the radio reviews of the book
  arranged through the zeal of our various committees, although
  we write of some of them under "Town and Train" and that is
% where we tell of the work of our committees on the Eastern
 ` Seaboard. (
 g, We are also becoming aware, through the mail that is
’l pouring in to us every day, of how many of our individual
  subscribers are boosting our book. (All of your letters, bless
  you, will be answered, but it isn’t possible to cope with- them
 F; yet.) The Raymond Agards at the University of Wisconsin in
  Madison have personally undertaken a campaign to promote
L the book throughout the State of Wisconsin. It has gotten off
 I to an effective start! Mrs. John R. Rodman (old staff member
if Betty Holmes) at Knoxville and Mrs. George Winship, Jr. (old
r, staff member Clara Dale Echols) at Bristol, Tennessee—Virginia,
  first read the book, and then began to promote it in their own
 ,*,1 corner of the United States.
  Rarely has a book started off with such enthusiastic
  endorsement by so many thousands of friends. Perhaps it is
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not to be wondered at, although we were startled as well as v_
pleased, that Wide Neighborhoods was included in the April
28 report "What America Is Reading," published on May 11 by .
the New York Herald-Tribune. True it was the twenty-third,
and therefore the bottom book listed under non-fiction, but the
poor little old new-born thing did make this best—seller list and L
is included in the next two weekly lists as well. Our editor, Miss ji 
Elizabeth Lawrence, writes us: "Re-orders are healthy." Miss  
Lawrence also writes us, with permission to quote, as follows: , Q 
"Mr. Canfield has received the following note from the novel- R
ist A. J. Cronin acknowledging the book: ‘I am very much in-
debted to you for sending me Wide Neighborhoods. This is ,
really a stunning book and held me all the way from beginning
to end. Not only does it perform a splendid public service, it is Z
magniflcently readable} " ‘  »
We are sure that we have not received as yet all of the l
reviews that newspapers have printed about the book during  —
the month following its publication. (And those of you who {
have not already done so, will you be so kind as to send us ”
these reviews as they come to your attention?) The reviews V i
that we have seen include not only Mrs. Roosevelt’s kind
mention of Wide Neighborhoods in her column, and the mention i
of the book under the charming drawing by Caroline Williams ,- 
in the Cincinnati Enquirer, but full length reviews in the  E
Cincinnati Times-Star, the Louisville Sunday Courier Journal- ;
Louisville Times, the Lexington, Ky. Sunday Herald-Leader, ` L
} the New York Herald Tribune, the Providence, R. I. Journal  j
l Bulletin, the Boston Globe, the Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, Q
! the Rochester, N. Y. Sunday Democrat and Chronicle, the St. if
i Louis Post-Dispatch, the Chicago Sunday Tribune, the Cleveland P
News, Cincinnati Enquirer, Portland [Maine] Sunday Telegram.
Only one magazine so far, to our knowledge has reviewed
the book and that is To Dragma, the publication of the Alpha
Omicron Pi Sorority. Mrs. John Harter got a full page for her _
review, which was a most heart-warming one. {
As we look through the early newspaper reviews of Wide f
l Neighborhoods we are moved not only by their friendliness  
[ toward the Frontier Nursing Service, but by the kindness  `
E of most reviewers toward the book itself. The first one among l
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, Easter Sunday, follows just as E. F. wrote it, even down to the
simplified spelling!
` "WIDE NEIGHBORHOODS"
. By
Mary Breckinridge
V (Harper and Brothers, $4.)
  Mary Breckinridge, the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service in
, Kentucky and the "I" of this autobiografy, has what is unique in Hrst-
  person stories—a third-person viewpoint.
»: V She is not only a woman who, for the past quarter of a century, has
* / known where she wanted her paths of devotion to lead——the nursing
service was established in 1925-and was able and ready to follow the
most realistic direction to her dream. She is a woman who, scanning
her 1ife’s horizons in this book, has been able to see just as clearly exactly
what trails, from girlhood on, were the ones that mapped her final
. destination.
 . In a biografy, this analysis would be penetrating. In an autobiografy,
it means one has the gift—and a rare one, at that—of stepping full
. stride outside of one’s self.
 ‘ The Frontier Nursing Service was established, against the greatest
` odds, to bring the best in medical care to the frontier folk of the Kentucky
§ hills. It began when its founder was a child growing up in St. Petersburg
. (her father was American minister to Russia); it continued thru Miss
i Breckinridge’s days as a student at St. Luke’s hospital in New York. It
V ~ went on from there to her nursing work in France in World War I; led on,
then, to her studies in nursing and midwifery in England and Scotland.
__ Mingled with her formal training was her love for mountains and
» mountain people, her faith in the spiritual demands of service to others;
Z her readiness to tackle administrative details.
e Again and again, tho she reports them (and they make exciting
5 reading), she refuses to dramatize the hardships of the Frontier Nursing
Service. If one had to ride on horseback thru miles of bad country, thru
  even worse weather to succor sick mothers and children, it was all a part
. of the job at hand—no excuse for laurels or big brass bands.
~ Her story is a blueprint—in fact and in spirit—for others who wish
»· to travel her trail.
 -, _ —E.F.
{ —From the Washington Times Herald,
‘ April 13, 1952
SURFEIT
 { Jane Morris reports from Keuka College that when she
had a birthday in May no less than {ive friends sent her copies
.~' of Wide Neighborhoods. She also reports that she had already
  bought two copies on her own—one to keep and one to give away. ~
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ADVENTURE WITH MR. TURVEYDROP ll
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MARY BALCH (TIMMY), Boston Courier  
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Turveydrop (a jeep) and go to Flat Creek to pick up a Mrs. F
Cantor who was there and brin her to H den. I left Wendover ’
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idea how far it would be, but it took me almost two hours. 5
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· miles to the Flat Creek Center, and I made that OK.
At Flat Creek I unloaded the pipe, insulation, No. 20 oil
= for the furance fan and various other oddments for Stevie (the
, Flat Creek nurse). Then I loaded an old-fashioned Singer sewing
I machine into the back, and Mrs. Cantor into the front. The
gl · sewing machine was only going down the road, and we soon
  disposed of it.
R Mrs. Cantor and I reached the ford about an hour or hour
  and a half after I had crossed it before. Right in front of us
V was a man on a mule. He looked at us, and we looked at him,
  but no one said anything. I started Mr. Turveydrop across and
"  the water started pouring in. Mr. Turveydrop died almost in
l the middle. The engine quit, and the water came in.
J  The man on the mule told us that he had known we couldn’t
  get across, that if I had taken off the fan belt we might have
 { gotten across, and besides that, I had gone across the deepest
  part! We thanked him very kindly for his generous and timely
  information. It was so helpful!!
E Could he get us a mule? Well, he might be able to. (He
 1   .
. _ A boy came along with a gun. He allowed as how a team
might be able to pull us, but he didn’t know where there was one!
 I Well, we sat in the middle of that river for over half an
I hour. The water got deeper and deeper as the river was still
rising. It got deep enough so that there were two inches in the
. back of the jeep, and in the front it was ilush with the top of
  the gas tank under the seat. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Mrs.
Cantor had to point out to me how much the water was rising,
» all the black clouds that meant more thunderstorms, and other
E · cheerful items like that. As if that wasn’t enough, she was
 i afraid the jeep would either float downstream, tip over, or
5 both! I wasn’t getting any happier as the minutes went by.
Q _ Furthermore, I got to thinking it was Betty Lester’s pet jeep.
 ,’ Whenever she sees anyone driving it she always tells them to be
 at careful. I saw her in the morning and she forgot to tell me. ·The
  results were not good.
` After 35 or 40 minutes of this we heard a truck coming. It
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was a big Mel-O-Toast bread truck. The driver took one look  
at us and decided he couldn’t get across either. Luckily we
had a chain. He was very nice, and managed to get his truck  A
close enough so I could throw the chain to him. I wish you i
couhld hive seen 11;; vsgthkmy pants rcgled up