fashionable--medicine! The most conservative physicians freely
prescribe it in the very cases where some form of alcohol was
the specific so long. To be sure, they give it hot, but we do
not object to that, since 'water hot ne'er made a sot,' and it
cures dyspepsia and all forms of indigestion as whisky never
did, but only made believe to; while its external use as a
fomentation is banishing alcohol even for old folks' 'rheumatiz'
where, as a remedy, it would be likely to make its final stand.

"Farewell, thou cloven-foot, Alcohol! Thou canst no longer hide
away in the home-like old camphor bottle, paregoric bottle,
peppermint bottle or Jamaica-ginger bottle; and a tender
good-by, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for be it known to you
that the wonderful discovery stumbled over for six thousand
years has in our day been made, namely, that hot water will
soothe the baby's stomach-aches and the grown people's pains,
and drive out a cold when all else fails. _Jubilate!_ Clear out
the cupboard and top shelf of the closet now that the sideboard
has gone. Let great Nature have a glance to 'mother up' humanity
with the medicine, as well as the beverage, brewed in Heaven."

THE RED CROSS HOSPITAL.

A philanthropic young woman, Miss Bettina A. Hofker, entered Mount Sinai
Training School for Nurses in 1891. Her desire was to fit herself as a
nurse for the poor. After her graduation in 1893, she met Mrs. Charles
A. Raymond, a benevolent lady, who offered her pecuniary assistance in
her work. Miss Hofker suggested that she would like to institute a Red
Cross Hospital and Training School for Nurses. Mrs. Raymond succeeded in
interesting others in the proposition. The name of Red Cross however
could not be used without permission of the officers of the society
bearing that name, but after consultation with Miss Barton, permission
was granted. Several years previous to this, Dr. A. Monae Lesser, Dr.
Thomas McNicholl and Dr. Gottlieb Steger had opened a small hospital
under the name of St. John's Institute. This was now amalgamated with
the Red Cross, and Dr. George F. Shrady and Dr. T. Gaillard Thomas, two
of New York's leading physicians, were requested to act as consulting
physicians.

The hospital does not confine itself to service in its building alone,
but sends its workers wherever called, to mansion or tenement. The
"Sisters" are trained for field s