Nursing Diary no1 - 5 September 1922-3 June 1923

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This diary includes daily descriptions of nurse training at the Victoria Hospital School of Nursing in London, Ontario, encounters with supervisors and doctors (Drs. Child and Bowen), with transcriptions of poems and newspaper clippings of poems.

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[paper clippings x3 attached to page - read as follows]

In Spite of Yourself

By RUTH MASON RICE

MEN are very crotchety; but still, it's rather nice To think of yellow crocuses---the cunning knack of spring; Fair it is, and rare it is, and such a sweet device To make you feel you want to marry---more than anything.

THE WORKER. Sometimes as I walk by the roads Where the big cars rush past speed, I feel g'ad to be a worker, Striving for the things I need.

And when my day is done I feel content To sit with my family there, For it's been a real good day of work And my methods, too, are square.

Then let me live in sweet content, Each day as I strive ahead, And while others live for a useless thing I live as a worker instead. ---W.G.H. Wallaceburg. August 7, 1923

+ + + Says the Yampa Leader: "He was not crazy. His vacant and haunted look and almost incoherent mumbling was due to over mental exertion brought on by a few days in assisting his wife in selecting suitable wall paper for their new house. There ought to be a law passed ---but what's the use." + + +

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[paper cuttings x 2 attached to page]

Life is not a grab-bag whence Each his choice may lift; It's a contribution box Waiting for our gift; And the gift from which true joy Evermore must start Is the gift we all can give -- Just a sunny heart! ---The Epworth Herald

CHINESE WISDOM He who knows not, and knows that he knows not--- Count him a fool unworthy of thy speech. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not --- Count him as one whom it were well to teach. He who knows, and knows not that he knows--- A slumberer he, who but awakening needs. He who knows, and likewise knows he knows--- Mark such a one and follow where he leads. ---Chambers' Journal.

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Christmas CardsNellie Wansbrough√ Merle Bruce√ Lavina Duffy√ Eleanor Wood√ Hilda Smith√ Mary Morris√ Allan McIntyre√ Una McIntyre√ Billie Ahern√ Lloyd Calbeck√ Tina Wansbrough√ Irvine Campbell√ Helen Windsor√ Molly Stevenson√ Ida Moore Gwendolyn MacQuillan Dorothy Boyle Clarence Lawson

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[page from a book? attached to diary page - reads as follows{ The Calling of the Spring

By MARTHA HASKELL CLARK

WOOD SMOKE through the pasture lands drifting sweet and keen, Hillsides dark with shadowed clouds and filmed with leafmist green, Dawn light rioting with songs of feathered folk a-wing-- Someone's heart is throbbing with the calling of the spring.

Sunlight through the hemlock boughs, far hills blue with haze, Young leaves dappling dusty gold down birch-blown wander ways, Every turning's southern bank starred with wind-flowers frail-- Someone's heart is yearning to the whisper of the trail.

[Yenders'] baskets purpled high with lilac blossoms sweet, Hurdy-gurdies thumping strains of lost dreams down the street, Park lawns gay with tulips, park pools warm and brown-- Someone's heart is aching with the burden of the town.

Youth and laughter hand in hand on the meadow grass, Gray Age, cloaked with memories, smiling where they pass, Every dawn the promise of a golden yesterday-- Someone's heart is dancing to the elfin pipes of May.

[paper clipping underneath the attached page reads:-] Even amid the hurrying, eager throng: Give me Thy spirit, ever calm and sweet, Thy light to shine through me both clear and strong." [writing on original page] John & Mary Small Uncle Frank & Mary Uncle Harry & Edith Alice Stanley

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Christmas Cards Nellie Wansbrough. Merle Bruce Lavina Duffy Eleanor Wood. Hilda Smith. Mary Morris Eleanor Menary Allan McIntyre Una McIntyre Billie Ahern. Lloyd Calbeck. Tina Wansbrough. Irvine Campbell. Helen Windsor. Molly Stevenson Ida Moore Gwendolyn MacQuillan Dorothy Boyle Clarence Lawson

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