. Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war . ar horse; and while it holds out the measure of oatsin the one hand, it carries the bridle in the other. Itconstitutes a peace society which cannot be sneeredat in counsel, nor ignored in war. It is one of thethresholds to the temple of Peace, and even ourselvesmay be farther from the entrance than we are wontto fondly dream. Wars are organized mobs, theytell us. We are not without that seed in our ownfair land to-day. W
. Our army nurses. Interesting sketches, addresses, and photographs of nearly one hundred of the noble women who served in hospitals and on battlefields during our civil war . ar horse; and while it holds out the measure of oatsin the one hand, it carries the bridle in the other. Itconstitutes a peace society which cannot be sneeredat in counsel, nor ignored in war. It is one of thethresholds to the temple of Peace, and even ourselvesmay be farther from the entrance than we are wontto fondly dream. Wars are organized mobs, theytell us. We are not without that seed in our ownfair land to-day. Women have taken their share in the work. Em-presses and queens — princesses of peace and hu-manity— as well as emperors and kings, lead itssocieties and its relief work in Avar; and Avhile eachqueenly wife stands Avith her Ked Cross hand on theepauletted shoulder of her w^ar-meditating husband^he Avill consider well before he declares. This hasbeen and Avill be again the case; and in the greatmillennial day, when Peace has conquered war, andits standards float out from the shining battlements,the Ked Cross and its devoted workers Avill be there. 66 OUR ARMY MRS. FOWLE. **lenglan^ bae ber one, Hmcrica bertbou9an^0/* QF all the women who devoted themselves to thesoldiers in our late Kebellion, perhaps nonehad a more vaiied experience than Elida , a girl so 3oung that Miss Dix would notreceive her as a nurse; a fact for which hundredshad reason to be gi-ateful. Undaunted by seeming difficulties, she persisted in doing the next thing, and so fulfilled her greatdesire to do something for the Union soldiers. Yetit was not to these alone that her kindly ministrationsextended; for wherever she saw a soldier in need herready sympathies were enlisted, little caiing if theheartbeats stirred a coat of blue or gray. Miss Rumsey vv-as born in I^ew York City, June 6,184:2. Upon the removal of her parents to Washing-ton, where the ^Secesh element was strong in 61,her patri
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