Frank Lewis, aged 10, of Tulsa, Okla., for his question:

Who was called the Lady with the Lamp?

Longfellow wrote a poem to honor this famous woman. The tender name by which she is best remembered was given her by grounded and fever ridden soldiers of war. To them she was the efficient nurse who walked the dark wards to tend them through the night   the comforting Lady with the Lamp.

This was 100 years ago and her plan was a new one. She had come to Turkey to tend the British soldiers wounded in the Crimean War. In modern warfare we spare nothing in helping our wounded soldiers. At that time, 42% of the wounded perished from fever and neglect. In two years this woman had cut down that mortality rate to 2%.

Her name was, of course, Florence Nightingale. She insisted upon prompt hospital care, cleanliness and often special diets for the wounded. She herself spared nothing in providing these things. Linen, clothes and hospital beds she bought with her own money. And at the end of her long day she took her lamp to see that all was well with the suffering soldiers.