The need for a general knowledge of nursing and first aid is among the requisites of the housewife.

Miss Lily Nahhas says:

What femininity is more compelling in its proof than a woman bending over the sick, comforting him in his pains?

And Miss Hasiba Lutfallah declares:

The health-consciousness that flings the nurse into the very mire of germs is the first foundation of her staying sound and strong!

And Miss Nuha Hitti announces:

No quality so honors a girl's name, or so enriches her moral worth, as her zeal for man's safety and happiness!

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Whoever came to the editorial office of The Woman's Voice that day found his eyes dazzled by gleaming white, and his nostrils invaded — or he fancied he could smell — soap, or spirits. And no wonder: the "angels of mercy" had alighted upon the management to talk among themselves of some of the things that hinder the carrying out of their precious mission among the rest of mankind. And in this they are forbearing, showing something after the manner of the gods' famed forgiveness toward needy, wretched man — even should he deny their merit and belittle their nobility and their sacrifice!!!

Among our society's shortcomings toward nursing as women's profes-sion number one is this: that we still confuse, openly or in our hearts, the lofty mission of nursing, with all the science and art it enfolds, with the ordinary "service" that rises no higher than the work of house servants — and this at a time when those same servants have become rulers and commanders! On the one hand shortsightedness, or shrinking from honorable manual activity; or our distaste for the love of order and rules, and hence our failure to be conscious of our duty toward others... all these and more make up social and moral obstacles which any girl wishing to enter this corps must surmount and subdue.

For without an ample, organized body of nurses no advanced society can stand, in any country whatever. Thanks to modern scientific preven-tion we enjoy our health as sound individuals in a sound environment. And thanks to the newest treat-ments we hasten, in sickness, to the arms of medicine — and no doubt our faith at such a time comes near our faith in our Creator. And then, who guarantees us someone to fight and strive at our side, and give us to drink the means of health, dose by dose, by the newest and safest method? We fasten our trust upon them and place in their hands our lives — the most precious thing we own?!

How are we to imagine a collision, or a catastrophe of fire, or a spread-ing epidemic, without swift and effective first aid, modern treatment, skill and competence? How are we to imagine homes without mothers trained in sterilizing and disin-fecting, informed about nourishing foods, familiar with the ailments of childhood and steady in humoring old age? And how imagine schools that give no weight to sanitary