Properly speaking, there are two nurses,the nurse for the mother and the nurse for the child, or, the monthly and the wet nurse.

One day after she had lain for a long time in silence, she looked up at her faithful nurse and the grey eyes shone like stars.

Into this place the parson and M. St.-Ange entered, the little nurses jumping up from the sills to let them pass in.

"She can get a professional nurse, and that is worth a dozen friends.

She had nursed Birkendelly's mother, and been dry-nurse to himself and sister; and having more than a mother's attachment for the latter, when she was married, old Lucky left her country to spend the last of her days in the house of her beloved young lady.

In some of his hours of delirium he dictated to his careful nurses, Fletcher and the Countess, a number of verses, which she assures us were correct and sensible.

The choice of a monthly nurse is of the utmost importance; and in the case of a young mother with her first child, it would be well for her to seek advice and counsel from her more experienced relatives in this matter.

As the sufferer's own home was at some distance, Dorothy willingly received him under her roof, and became his tender and careful nurse.

A female nurse . . . . . . .

It is a city of the sickof healing, ratherand on a bright day, with crowds of convalescents sitting about in their linen pajamas in the sun, stretcher-bearers going back and forth, the capable-looking surgeons with their strong, kind faces, pretty nurses in nun-like white, it all has the brisk, rather jolly air of any vigorous organism, going full blast ahead.

" "Most certainly, you are trying to deceive me, my child," returned the aged nurse, "and you seem not to reflect how serious a matter it is to attempt to lead persons of experience to believe one thing because it is couched in words and to disbelieve the opposite, although it is made plainly evident by deeds.

Nizza was placed in the best apartment of the doctor's house, and attended by an experienced and trustworthy nurse.

Husband and wife, in many cases; husband, wife and children in many others; a grandmother and two grandchildren on one occasion, and on yet another, a venerable gray-haired nurse came with four of the family in which she had served for many years, and the five entered the baptistry together.

I would not recommend, however, nor even tolerate, for one moment, the absurd practice of jolting, so common with a few ignorant nurses and, mothers, as if they could jolt down the food in the stomach with just as much safety as they can shake down the contents of a farmer's bag of produce.

The right plan of proceeding is plain enough; only let attention be paid to the ordinary laws of health, and the mother, if she have a sound constitution, will make a better nurse than by any foolish deviation founded on ignorance and caprice.

Still more erroneous is the practice of some careless nurses, of carrying the child quite upright a part of the time, almost without any support at all.

All that medical skill and affectionate nursing of devoted relatives, friends, and a qualified nurse, could do towards saving the patient was done, and hopes were entertained of recovery till almost the last; but three days before the fatal end, hemorrhage of the intestines set in, and then the medical attendants despaired.

Gentle nurses of the Universities' English Mission, missionary ladies who devoted a lifetime in the service of the Huns and the natives in German East, locked up behind barbed wire for two years, without privacy of any kind, constantly spied upon in their huts at night by the native guard, always in terror that the black man, now unrestrained, even encouraged by his German master, should do his worst.

Some of 'em have rather rough voyages, and come into port pretty well battered; land-sharks fall foul of a good many, and do a deal of damage; but most of 'em carry brave and tender hearts under the blue jackets, for their rough nurse, the sea, manages to keep something of the child alive in the grayest old tar that makes the world his picture-book.

When he had completed his business, he embarked on the Pride of St. Louis with you and your mother and a colored nurse.

Above all, Pearl must not know, for instinctively he felt that if she knew he was a sick man, she would marry him straight awayshe would be so sweet about it all, and so hopeful and sure he would get well, and such a wonderfully skilful and tender nurse, that he would surely get well.

he answered, with such a ravenous glance at a fat nurse who happened to be passing, that I trembled for her, and hastened to take a bowl of soup from her tray.

Though wounded himself, the doctor, with the aid of two male nurses (Frenchmen both), had to do the whole thing himself.

One day, when the watchful nurse could not forbear to weepher full heart overflowingher patient asked: "Do you think I shall not get better?

I am an admirable nurse; and you will gain time, if you will deliver yourself up to my care, and not go back to Coke and Chitty till I give you leave.