TH OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN. HE literature upon employments, moneymaking, and professions for women, is found more in the magazines than in books. Among the magazine articles upon this subject that may be consulted with profit are: "Industrial Value of Women," North American, vol. 135, p. 433; “ Women in Arts and Trades,” American Architect, vol. 30, p. 197; Artistic Professions for Women," All the Year Round, vol. 63, p. 296; Women as Lawyers," Green Bag, vol. 2, p. 10; Lippincott, vol. 23, p. 387; Victoria, vol. 28, p. 219; “Indoor Employments of Women," Chautauquan, vol. 7, p. 259; “Outdoor Employments of Women," Chautauquan, vol. 7, p. 200; Women in the Professions," Chautauquan, vol. 7, p. 460; "What Can She Do?" Once a Week, vol. 12, p. 493; "The Woman of Business," Fortnightly, vol. 11, p. 156; "Occupations of Women Seventy Years Ago," Lippincott, vol. 15, p. 475; "Women and the Fine Arts," Macmillan, vol. 12, p. 110; Women and Journalism," Galaxy, vol. 13, p. 499; Chautauquan, vol. 7, P. 393: Women as Architects," Western, vol. 6, p. 22; 'Women as Nurses," Canadian, vol. 16, p. 164; “The Trained Nurse," Scribner's Magazine, vol. 8, p. 613; Women as Physicians," Macmillan, vol. 18, p. 369; Living Age, vol. 73, p. 243; Nineteenth Century, vol. 22. p. 692; Victoria, vol. 15, p. 21; North American, vol. 134, p. 52; "Women as Workers," Galaxy, vol. 15, p. 676; "Earnings of Women," Victoria, vol. 10, p. 385; "Technical Training for Girls," Fraser, vol. 99, p. 343; "Women and Skilled Labor," Penn Monthly, vol. 6, p. 46 66 514; "Photography for Women," Victoria, vol. 21, p. 1; “What America has Done for Women," Scribner's, vol. 6, p. 300; Women in Industrial Employments," Victoria, vol. 17, p. 308; "Employments for Women," Harper's, vol. 65, p. 112. Among the books are: Prisoners of Poverty," by Helen Campbell; 'Women Wage Earners," by Helen Campbell; "Thrown on Her Own Resources, or What Girls Can Do," by Mrs. J. C. Croly; The Future of Educated Women," by F. E. Allison; "Working Women in Large Cities," United States Department of Labor, Fourth Annual Report; A Manual of Wood Carving," by Charles G. Leland; "Money Making for Ladies," by Ella R. Church; What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?" by Mary A. Livermore ; Work for Women," by George J. Manson; How Women Can Make Money," by Virginia Peuney; "Women and Work," by Emily Pfeiffer. 66 THE TRAINED NURSE. The following information is given for women preparing to become trained nurses. It is issued by "The New York City Training School for Nurses," and may be taken in most respects as a fair example of the requirements necessary for successful application for admission to training schools. The Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction having established The New York City Training School for Nurses in connection with the various hospitals under their charge, are prepared to offer to those wishing to become professional nurses, a two years' course of training, which will include a wide experience in all forms of sickness. Those wishing to obtain this course of instruction must themselves apply, either in person or by letter, to the Superintendent of the Training School, upon whose approval (and passing satisfactorily the entrance examination) they, with the permission of the Commissioners, will be received for one month on probation. (The entrance examination is to test the applicant's ability to read aloud well, to write legibly and accurately, to keep simple accounts, and to take notes of lectures.) During the month of trial the Superintendent will decide as to their practical fitness for the work, and, proving satisfactory, they will be recommended to the Board of Commissioners for appointment as pupil nurses in the school. Applicants must be over twenty-one and under thirty-five years of age. They must be in sound health, and must send with their application a certificate from a physician certifying to the fact; also, one from some responsible person as to their moral character. During the month of trial they will be boarded and lodged in the school, but receive no compensation. The pay for the first year will be ten dollars per month; for the second year, fifteen dollars. After the month of probation, nurses are required, when on duty, to wear the uniform of the school. The nurses are on duty from 7.30 A.M. to 7.30 P.M., with an hour for dinner, and, when hospital duties permit, additional time for rest and study. They are also given a half-day every week, and, when possible, every second Sunday. A vacation of two weeks is allowed each year. Nurses will reside at the "Home," and serve first as Assistant Nurses, and afterward as Head Nurses, if found competent, in the various wards of the hospitals in connection with the school. COURSE OF TRAINING. The instruction includes: wounds; the preparation and application of fomentations, poultices, and surgical dressings. 2. Application of leeches, and subsequent treatment. 3. Administration of enemata and use of catheter. 4. The best method of friction to the body and extremities. 5. Management of helpless patients; moving, changing, giving baths in bed, preventing bed-sores, and managing position. 6. Bandaging, making bandages and rollers. and lining splints. 7. Making beds, and changing sheets while the patient is in bed. 8. The preparing, cooking, and serving of delicacies for the sick; to understand the art of ventilation without chilling the patient, both in private houses and hospital wards. They are also given instruction in preparing reports for the physician as to the state of the secretions, expectoration, pulse, temperature of the body, skin, appetite, intelligence (as to delirium or stupor), breathing, sleeping, condition of wounds, eruptions, formation of matter, effect of diet, stimulants, or medicines, and to learn the management of convalescents. Weekly classes will be held by the Superintendent and Assistant Superintendent, and, in addition to this, instruction will be given by the House Physicians and Surgeons and Head Nurses, at the bed side of the patient, and in various other ways. A course of lectures will be given on such subjects as Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene, Diseases, Surgery, Materia Medica, and Obstetrics, and examinations will be held at stated periods. At the expiration of the full term of two years, Nurses passing a final examination will each receive a diploma of the School, certifying to their knowledge of nursing and their ability and good character, signed by the Superintendent, the Examining Board, and the Board of Commissioners. N. B.-The right is reserved to terminate the connection of any pupil with the School, for any reason which may be deemed suffi 1. The dressing of blisters, burns, sores, and cient. WOMEN IN THEIR BUSINESS AFFAIRS. PRELIMINARY NOTE TO FORMS. IT cannot be too severely recommended to lay readers of the subjoined forms of legal documents and precedents, that the same are not furnished for the purpose of dispensing with the services of trained attorneys, except in very remote and unusual cases of emergency where such services cannot be obtained. The forms here furnished are only a few out of many hundreds, and are chiefly useful as giving some of the technical features and phraseologies adopted by the legal practi tioner in a very limited number of business transactions. But it may safely be said that no two transactions requiring documentary evidence are exactly the same in all particulars, while the variations in most of them, eg., in the transaction of a will, are almost innumerable. It must, therefore, be clearly understood that only in the event of the emergency referred to, should the layman trust to his own hand, even with the aid of these forms, in preparing a legal document. NOTE. In the following forms the words printed in italics represent what is written, the matter in Roman type represents the printed form. year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, Between Alanson Doe, of the City of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York, party of the first part, and Wesley Roe, of the said City of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York, party to of the second part, Witnessetb, That the said party of the first part, in consideration of four thousand dollars him duly paid, has sold, and by these presents does grant and convey to the said party of the second part, the premises known as number five hundred and sixty-two Waterloo Avenue, in the City of Brooklyn, County of Kings and State of New York, and described as lot number five (5) in the second subdivision of the Jeroliman Farm, on the map of said farm recorded in the Register's office of said County of Kings, and having a frontage of twenty five (25) feet on Waterloo Avenue, beginning at a point eighty-five (85) feet southerly from the junction of said Avenue with South Martin Street; thence along Waterloo Avenue twenty-five (25) feet; thence easterly, as per said plot and survey, one hundred and fifty (150) feet; thence northerly along the division line twenty-five (25) feet; thence one hundred and fifty (150) feet along the division line to the point of beginning, with the appurtenances, and all the estate, title and interest of the said party of the first part therein. This Grant is intended as a security for the payment of the principal sum of four thousand dollars, with interest* thereon payable semiannually on the twentieth day of April and on the twentieth day of October in each year, and the whole of said principal sum of four thousand dollars on the twentieth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, which payments, if duly made, will render the conveyance void. And if default shall be made in payment of the principal or interest above mentioned, then the said party of the second part and his assigns are hereby authorized, pursuant to statute, to sell the premises above granted, or so much thereof as will be necessary to satisfy the amount then due, with the costs and expenses allowed by law. In Witness Whereof, the said party of the first part has hand and seal the day and year first above written. hereunto set his Sealed and delivered in the presence of [Seal.] Ephraim Jones, Notary Public. When the rate of interest is not specified the statutory rate, now 6 per cent., is understood. |