. 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 . NATIONAL MONUMENT, GETTYSBURG, PENN. 28 OUR ARMY DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX. •ffn flDemori^ of Dorotbea X\>nbc S^iy. /^ X the 17th of July, 1887, occurred the death ofI I Dorothea Lynde Dix; a woman whose memory^^ will be kept green until acts of humanity be-come so common that they are passed by withoutcomment. She was born in 1802, and her early life was bleak,humiliating, and painful. Her father not being ableto t
. 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 . NATIONAL MONUMENT, GETTYSBURG, PENN. 28 OUR ARMY DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX. •ffn flDemori^ of Dorotbea X\>nbc S^iy. /^ X the 17th of July, 1887, occurred the death ofI I Dorothea Lynde Dix; a woman whose memory^^ will be kept green until acts of humanity be-come so common that they are passed by withoutcomment. She was born in 1802, and her early life was bleak,humiliating, and painful. Her father not being ableto take care of her she soon left his roof, and foundan abiding place, but scarcely a home, with her grand-mother in Boston. She possessed exceptional energy and ambition,and early determined to fit herself for a one side of her character seemed that of anearnest, unenthusiastic worker, the other was excep-tionally sensitive, and full of beautiful ideals. Shereveled in poetry, and worshiped intellectual great-ness; but she was above a selfish absorption in these,for poverty and ignorance appealed to her strongly,and she early began to work for poor and neglectedchildren. For these she opened a school in the barn o
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