Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-04-07
A MYSTICAL Character.

The Paris correspondent Of the Newark Adver-
tiser has turned up a human" whom he considers
something of myth. He says:
"Apropos of women, the fair sex have, or APP
pear to have, representative among the students
at Hotel Deu. She is about twenty-five, with high
che elk bones square features, of rather masculine
cast, wears a fiock and no beard, and elbows her
way Justify in the crowd with an energy and per-
severance that enable her to and hear all that
is done and said. Pocket-case in hand, she Is al
ways present in Jobert's train, and bears the jam
ming to which she is subjected with no more com
plant than if she belonged to the ruder sex. The
remarks made about her, more candid than COM
plimentary, and not always dressed in the incest
phrase pass by her like the idle wind that she re.
CARDS not. The GOODNESS and equanimity that
Characterize her in the presence of certain most
remarkable sights are worthy Of an old campaigner,
aud the grim, rigid smile that adorns her coupte-
n lnce is nowhere else TO be encountered, except
In some other bronze face In spite Of the femi-
nine habiments, / cannot help hoping, for the
honor of the fair sex, that she is counterfeit. III
she is not If she is veritable woman Of the Bloomer
species, then is she as extraordinary production
rs this city of surprises can show. Shakespeare
conceived Caliban, fable invented the Amazons,
story and song have conferred eternal infamy upon
Lucrezia Borgia, Catharine, and Messalne, and
have seen children with two heads, but no monster
of them all is disgusting as this unsexed woman,
who has forsaken the needle for the scalpel and
would have more pleasure in saving of a mans
leg than in mending his breeches
They say she is American. do not believe it.
Such brazen immodesty could not have sprung
from our SOIL where IL the report Of certain tray-
oilers speaks true, the ladies have reached the OPP
p1ste extreme, as witness the care with which it
is said they clothe the supports" Of their pianos
0ae day, indeed, there came into the wards yer-
table American lady-doctor fortified with dplo-
ma from some insignificant medical mandatory in
the United States, when an amusing contre temps
occurred that excited the hilarious visibility Of the
students, and so mortified the lady, whose cheeks
were not wholly unused TO blushing, that she made
a precipitate retreat and has never mustered oour-
are to return. do not wish TO be understood
opposing the education Of women to act as mid
wives They might be made competent to offici
ate In ordinary cases. calling for the assistance Of
physicians when difficulties arose. But practically
il Is found in this, aud other countries where fe-
males act in this capacity, that few but women Of
the poorer and lower classes avail themselves OF
these services; and when they do IL is mostly from
pecuniary considerations. More ladies have avowed
that they preferred the aid Of physician in such
cases, because they received from him q sort Of
assiduity, delicacy and gentleness, the insensble
result Of the gallant and chvalrous element in the
male sex, instead Of the mere matter Of fact and
busness-like attentions which accoucheurs Of their
own sex bestowed But chacuH a soR govt, and
10 dismiss a topic already perhaps treated with
indiscreet and excessive amplitude.