=Afternoons Off.= Each nurse should be given one afternoon a week off duty. It is more satisfactory to give this half-day in the middle of the week, on Wednesday or Thursday, rather than on Saturday, at the week’s end. In this way, the rest period breaks the long stretch of days, and the nurse is enabled to rest before she becomes too tired. Sundays, of course, should always be free. Under no consideration should the nurse be subject to night calls and it is well to have this fact understood at the outset of the work. A nurse cannot be on duty night and day both, and certain rules should be established, regarding her hours on duty, and be rigidly adhered to. =Character.= The questions of training and of health having been satisfactorily answered, there remains a third great essential to be considered—the question of personality. Social nursing differs from all other branches of nursing, since in this specialty there is a wider departure from the routine and mechanical duties which form so large a part of nursing work. Those qualities which make a good institutional, or a good private nurse, do not necessarily make a good social or public health nurse. Something more is demanded. Broadly speaking, apart from professional training, the more highly educated and cultivated the woman, the better will she be qualified. This, one may say, would apply to all branches of the profession, but we believe these qualities are more necessary in the tuberculosis nurse than in the operating-room nurse, for example. The latter does work which demands mechanical quickness and coolness; the former requires a personality capable of dealing with human beings in all stages of refractoriness, over whom she has no authority, but from whom she is expected to obtain results. As every one knows, it is far easier to deal with things than with people. The qualities of a teacher are requisite. No matter how well one may know a subject, if one cannot present it clearly and impressively, small progress will be made. Nor is it the patient alone that the nurse is called upon to deal with. Her activities bring her into close relations with physicians, social workers, politicians, boards of directors, and “benevolent individuals” of all classes, whose interest and good-will it is necessary to secure. She must be as well able to meet people of this sort, as to teach the humblest patient in her district. Since this is social work, the so-called social virtues are a necessity—and these exclude a bad temper or a quarrelsome disposition. It is as essential to work in harmony with other social workers as with the patients themselves—the two relationships are interdependent.