by women, such as invention ins simple machinery, plans for homes for the Children of Prisoner's Training Home, in which the Duchess of Teck has taken a deep, practical interest; hospital work by women is illustrated in every variety of surgical appliance, adjusted on dummy figures and explained by attendant nurses from the London hospitals. The presiding spirit of nursing work is, of course, Florence Nightingale, whose noble labours during the Crimean War brought to the world at large, and forever did away with a "Sairy Gamp," type of nurse presented to us by the tender crusadic pen of "the immortal" Charles Dickens. The. carriage used by Florence Nightingale in her frontier journeys is exhibited. It isa most shambling uncomfortable affair, but it surely sufficed for its day and generation. This, with a marble bust of herself, was lent by the aged lady, who is peacefully going down the way of life, no longer strong but with wonderfully well preserved faculties for her years. OF her it may be said "Te (her life work) is finished." There are also shown many
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