"Some of us," she says, "who were children in the days of the Crimean War when Miss Nightingale's most famous work was done, were responsible girls at home, nursing as occasion arose in our families, by the light of her _Notes_, to the music of Longfellow's verse, when once again she came before us, flashing out of her retirement with the trumpet-call of 'Una.'" Many are now called to such work, but few, I suppose, are chosen--in the sense of being found worthy to do the work in the spirit of Agnes Jones. The Liverpool experiment, rendered successful by her devotion, rapidly made its mark. In ten years' time the system of employing pauper inmates as nurses had been entirely superseded, in all sick asylums and separate infirmaries, by paid nurses. In 1897 the employment of pauper nurses in any workhouse was forbidden, and the training of the paid nurses has been continuously improved.[89] To Miss Nightingale, here as in all her undertakings, each point gained was only a step on the road to perfectibility. Among some communings with herself, written in 1867, there is this entry: "Easter Sunday. Never think that you have done anything effectual in nursing in London till you nurse, not only the sick poor in workhouses, but those at home." [88] Miss L. Freeman. [89] For details on this subject, see Majority Report, 1909, pp. 240-242. CHAPTER II ALLIANCE WITH SIR BARTLE FRERE (1867-1868) Truly these poor people will have cause to bless you long after English Viceroys and dynasties are of the past.--SIR BARTLE FRERE (_Letter to Miss Nightingale_, May 6, 1869). When Sidney Herbert died, his work as an army reformer was in part arrested because he had never put in what Miss Nightingale called "the main-spring." He had failed to reform the War Office. There had thus been no such effective organization set up as would ensure even the permanent possession of ground already gained and much less a continuous advance. There was now some danger of a like state of things in connection with Public Health in India, and Miss Nightingale turned her thoughts to avert it.