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Of course by now you have
decided one way or the other about
the nurse's training that you were
contemplating in your note,
so that it is futile for me to
write about it at all. I think on
the surface the [little?] []ppoint-
ment secretaray's advice was best,
and if there is still any doubt
in your mind about hospital
work it may do some good to know
that any menial job in a hos-
pital corps - even tho it is in
that glorious "somewhere in France"
is mighty disagreeable and takes
an infinite amount of patience and
forebearance, and if there is any job
in the work that will sap a person's
strength and enthusiasm, a
hospital menial job is that. The
nurses that are in active work over
here have had years of practice
in the States. And it is only the
experienced that will get anywhere
near the front (except of course,
for certain moneyed volunteers
with a "pull" - and they are in
the way, from the workers point
of view. It is admirable to

Of course by now you have
decided one way or the other about
the nurse's training that you were
contemplating in your note,
so that it is futile for me to
write about it at all. I think on
the surface the [] []ppoint-
ment secretaray's advice was best,
and if there is still any doubt
in your mind about hospital
work it may do some good to know
that any menial job in a hos-
pital corps - even tho it is in
that glorious "somewhere in France"
is mighty disagreeable and takes
an infinite amount of patience and
forebearance, and if there is any job
in the world that will sap a person's
strength and enthusiasm, a
hospital menial job is that. The
nurses that are in active work over
here have had years of practice
in the States. And it is only the
experienced that will get anywhere
near the front except of course,
for certain moneyed volunteers
with a "pull" - and they are in
the way, from the workers point
of view. It is admirable to