Home life in Hellas, Greece and the Greeks - eBooks4Greeks.gr

332 HOME LIFE IN HELLASsituated in a healthy, open spot on the farther slopeof Lycabettus. It is well equipped and wellstaffed, and visited periodically by the mosteminent practitioners in Athens. It is managedby a committee of ladies presided over by QueenOlga, who takes an intimatepersonal interest inits welfare. The nursing staff is managed by aDanish lady. It is not an easy matter to obtainnurses. The Greeks consider nursing as a professionbeneath their dignity, although whentrained they are quick and capable.Nevertheless,nothing will induce them to appear in public inuniform. The Children's Hospital outside Athens,at Goudi, is a model establishment. It is due tothe initiative of the Crown Princess Sophia, whohas made it an object of constant personal careand supervision. The Home for Incurables ismanaged by a committee of twenty ladies. TheInstitution for the Blind, a handsome building inthe Byzantine style, is in University Street. Amost useful charity is the Soup Kitchen, built bythe Princess Sophia. It supplies wholesome,well-cooked repasts for ten and twenty leptas—penny and twopence—and is a real boon to thenecessitous in a city where food is exceedinglydear, and in the lower class of eating-houses oftenof dubious quality, and prepared under dirty andinsanitary conditions. The Royal Hellenic Schoolof Needlework, founded by Lady Egerton, thewife of a former British Minister, has become in agreat measure self-supporting. The making of