The New York herald., 1873-10-14


ing Jacket, who nudged me In the ribs'and asked
me II had passport, as he blew some rank to-
sns rw d
another way while waiting for an answer.
told him had a passport and then he said i
was OF no consequence II was an Englishman, and
having impaired this information he siung himself
on to another carriage and probably worried some
one else In the same unnecessary way. l found
Switzerland as beautiful as l had lett it some
years ago; put much changed in other respects
playing at travel; but many OF the
ExIIEs FROM ALSACR LORRAINE
have made 1t their home. The hotels, instead
such good cream and honey at such low
prices have become national institutions and are as
Lausanne, where l first stopped. because Swiss
railway trains do not run by night, and which used
dear and bad, having been snufIed out BY hotel
near the water side, dear and bad also. The prac-
tce OF dining at td0ies d,h0te mas somewhat gone
full hotel containing several hundred travellers
only twenty-one appeared at table. aud those got
nothing but the drumsticEs oil departed fowls for
their sustenance, the breasts and the wings
having been all served to rich Americans and Eng
lish people. who dine in their own apartments. l
miscellaneous leayngs OF byQone travellers with
orbi tant being twenty-five ffancs for o bedroom
on the fourth door and one detestable meal.
There were no amuscments At Lausanne, where
Gibbon pondered for so many years. and
WHERE DICKENS WROTE ONE OF HIS BEST STORIES
save such as were to be got out OF the Cafe du
drink nat beer and doze over stale newspapers to
the sound OF dr0wsy billiard balls humping sleeplly
against each other The Lausanne people passed
travellers. When they marked one down, they
TOOK him in .a.to.rr .
Not long since 1000 francs or E4o was considered
enough for Q moderate mans expenses during o
tour in Switzerland. Now double that amount
is mncb desrer than IN Paris or New Which,
are indeed the cheapest places In the world for
What Struck me most favorably on my return to
Switzerland was that the SWISS are unQuestionably
free people, little
They are not ruled over and commanded ON rail-
ways, steamboats, and public places, as folks are in
France.
was their conlounded impudence. Every one
seemed to say, =! am as good as you, and great
mode OF asserting their equality among chance &C.
quaintances "f0int ddryent, point de SuiSSen is
an old French proverb, which points to their
GOODNESS and avarlce and Is almost as old as their
national existence. But now the inhabitants OF
the cantons are unwilling to give q remunerative
amount OF civility even when 0verreaching GUS
ARRIVED AT ZURICH,
which has greatly increased IN Importance OF late
years, and Is said TO number nearly 65, 900 in
habitants towards six O'Clock in the afternoon OF
the 29th OF August and hali an hour afterwards
found myself lace TO face with one ef the partners
MEssRs FusgLI CO.,
among the first booksellers in Europe to whom
had an introduction. MesSrs. Fasei complained
to me that their name and iame had not received
due notice from the compers OF the latest editions
OF the English guide books, and promised to call
attention to their merits in the NEW YORK HERALD.
!, therefore, bsgln my account OF an Interview
with them by redeeming my promise. They are
civil and intelligent people, worthy OF . visit from
travelling Americans.
asked these gentlemen II anything had been
published deserving Of note on the question OF
THE FEMALE STUDENTS;
and they gave me some pamphlets issued by thcir
own frm. Then iair silent, man, VINO seemed to
be the active business partner, took me into his
private room and gave me some unpublished
nas il desirable to consult. pt 10 these valuable
presents he added a packet OF letters Of intro
wI m in ne wr9s rapidly Se ~sa he
generally liked the female Students because they
did not get into debt rs their brethren did, and
that Zurich tradesmen would trust them implicitly,
and regretted that they were going away. As 70
their morality and behavior, opinions, he OBJ
townspeople inclined much toward the female
students, because BELIEF prevailed that they
were oppressed BY ukase which had recently ap-
peareG IN the CDlcdi Gazette OF st. Peter sburg de-
nounclng them as vagabonds and criminals,
looked at the papers which Messrs. Fuseli had
given me as drove back to my hotel, and noted
the following facts. which have not yet been pub
lished:-
OF 1s64-5, when solitary Russian woman entered
her name on the college books as medical
student. This happened shortly after the emanci-
patton or the serfs In Russia had upset many for
tunes, and sent the poor relations of an embar-
rassed landed aristocracy upon their travels in
much chance OF fnding much longer at home. In
the summer term OF 1855 another female student
came to study medicine at the University OF Zurich.
and in the summer term Of 1867 one OF them van.
lshed into space. But In the winter term Of 1868
there were
THREE PEMALE MEDICAL STUDENTS,
OF whom two were English, on the books OF the
University. In the summer term another English
lady arrived and IN the winter term Of 1869 another
Russian lady; and yet another in the following
summer term appeared TO swell the number or
female medical students. In the beginning Of 1870
har Wa and The
nine Russian ladies entered on the University
books as medical students, while the number OF
the commencement OF 1871. There were twelve
Russian ladies' studying at Zurich, but Two OF them
went away before the year had closed. In 1872,
however, their number increased rapidly to seven
teen IN the first University term, and TO forty-our
during the second term In 1873 it had again risen
before Easter to sixty-nine, and the number Of
female medical students was greater than that OF
the males Meantime certain Russian female
Students who mad
entered their names on the books OF the University
OF Zurich as students OF philosophy. First, only
one lady thought proper TO phIlosOphize, 1859;
and up to 1872 only three other ladies had the viii
or the courage to follow her example; but In 1872
there were ten Russian female students OF phioso-
ply, and at the commencement OF the present
year, 1879, there were twenty-six female philoso-
their glory. British female was there 10 keen
them In countenance, and two Independent
minded Germans OF the adverse sex joined the
party within the last twelve months. The num-
ber OF British female medical students varied be-
tween one and three, and from 1869 to the present
time there has been
ONE AMERICAN FEMALE MEDICAL STUDENT
at Zurich. Hungary has sent nrst one, then two,
then one again, during the last five years; and
Germany has sent first one, then three, then four
female medical students to Zurich during the same
period. Among the Russian ladies is also soil
tary female student OF political economy and
dare say 1t would be very funny sight 10 behold
her at work, with jack boots and pair OF specta
cles on. IL Is melancholy iact for the enthusiast
TIC advocates o yomenis rights who object TO well
ordered houses and desire to see all womankind in
jack boots and spectacles, that out OF than
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT FEMALE STUDENTS
80 very lew have been able to take university
degree, or that so many have scorned TO do so, as
an unworthy concession to the rules and regula-
tions set up for the conduct OF the interior being
man.
Thus only one lady out OF oil the female members
OF the University OF All Nations took degree as
Doctor OF Medicine In 1885, one lady only took o
degree as Doctor OF Philosophy and Science, also,
In 1868 Then there was an interval OF two years,
during which lady took any denraa Kut n