FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
You have heard about the little English girl, named Florence Nightingale, who loved to play she was a nurse.
You remember that when she grew up she went in a ship all the way to the Crimean peninsula to nurse the soldiers during the dreadful war between England and Russia in 1854.
You remember, too, that when she wanted to go, the men in charge of the army told her that it was a foolish idea.
They said that no one had ever heard of such a thing—that women would not be able to do any good in such a dreadful place.
But Florence Nightingale was not the kind of person to be discouraged by such talk.
She managed to go; and she did so much for the wounded and sick soldiers that they called her the “Angel of Mercy.”
Do you remember that the very men who had discouraged her found out that the work she and her nurse friends did was the most wonderful help they ever had?