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Most modern nurses start training for their careers at 18, but it was not always so: the mother of the nursing sisterhood thought 18 much too young. In a letter published for the first time in the current British Medical Journal, Florence Nightingale gave some advice on the question...
...Army a telegram offering 600,000 cans of beer absolutely free of charge. Not to be outdone, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. offered several vatfuls of free beer, too. At that, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., rose in Denver before the 76th convention of her sisterhood to launch a heated counterattack...
...most likely candidate for the post (out of some 30-odd St. Valentines listed in The Biographical Dictionary of Saints) is one M. Valentine. He was a Roman priest who loved brotherhood (and sisterhood), but unfortunately he lost his head over the whole matter on February 14 in either 269 or 278 A.D., depending on what book you look it up in. This explains why he became a martyr and did not die a natural death...
...Thus you can announce to all the world and to millions yet unborn that the old Georgia, the great Georgia of Hill and Stephens and Toombs, when Kennesaw Mountain was a peak of fire and Chickamauga a field of blood, still lives to claim an honorable place in the sisterhood of 48, constituting one nation, one people, America indivisible and unconquerable...
...after he was through being Ambassador to the U.S., was getting closer to the earth. The towering lord of Hickleton Hall in Yorkshire was moved by servant trouble and householder's headache to sell the hulking heap, plus a few of his many lordly acres, to an Anglican sisterhood (Order of the Holy Paraclete). The sisters planned to use it for a school building, and m'lord planned to move into the stable...