Excerpt from The World's Workers: Florence Nightingale, Frances Ridley Havergal, Catherine Marsh, Mrs. Ranyard ("L. N. R.") It is a statuette of Florence Nightingale. It stands in the dining-room of the Nightingale Home, St. Thomas's Hospital; where those who have eyes and hearts and brains may study it, and learn the lessons taught with such quiet, unobtrusive force.

That Nightingale Home is part of the British nation's tribute of thanks 'to the noble woman who found the death-rate in the Barrack Hos pital at Scutari 60 per cent., and left it a fraction over I.

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