Acting on this belief, we find Miss Nightingale, in addition to her work in improving the nursing in the army, arranging plans by which soldiers might remit money to their relatives, by forming an extempore money order office where, on four afternoons each month, she personally received money from soldiers and arranged for sending it to relatives in England. Soon the government took the hint which she thus gave them--and established money order offices at different points where the troops were stationed. Along the same practical line was her effort to combat the drink habit by establishing a coffee house, the details of which she arranged. Her next practical step was the establishment of reading rooms and class rooms--which were fitted up with textbooks, copy books, prints, maps, games, etc., secured from personal friends in the home land. On her request, two schoolmasters were sent out from England to take charge of “the education of the army.” Scarcely had she returned from the Crimea than she began her long campaign for better sanitary conditions in the army, wherever it might be called in the future. “We can do no more,” she said, “for those who have suffered and died in their country’s service; they need our help no longer; their spirits are with God who gave them. It remains for us to strive that their sufferings may not have been endured in vain--to endeavor so to learn from experience as to lessen such sufferings in future by forethought and wise management.” [Illustration] “Notes on Hospitals” Chapter III. “It may seem a strange principle to enunciate,” wrote Miss Nightingale in 1863, “as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary, nevertheless, to lay down such a principle, because the actual mortality in hospitals, especially in those of large crowded cities is very much higher than any calculation founded on the mortality of the same class of diseases among patients out of hospitals would lead us to expect.”