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 crat, and you cannot appeal from her decision to any physician connected with the hospital. Your first lesson in training-school discipline will be the power of the superintendent.

If you wish to go to a city like New York or Chicago make your application by mail. Address it to the superintendent of the training-school, and state in it clearly and unequivocally your age, height, weight, health, strength and any physical defects you may have. Do not try to gloss over any deficiency in training or condition. Be sure the superintendent will find you out. Set forth your educational advantages, your occupation from the time you left school until the hour of writing, the church of which you are a member, your reasons and motives for becoming a trained nurse, also whether you are married, single, widowed or divorced. Be equally frank as to your responsibilities, whether you have others dependent upon you for financial support. Forward with these statements, which you should make as brief as possible, your letter or letters of recommendation, and a certificate of health.

If this informal application makes a good impression on the superintendent, she will send you a regular application blank, which you will fill out with infinite care—and please, dear girls, if you want to make a good impression with this, do not send it forth decorated with tiny