The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-11-14

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ments can not iau Co inspire with boBa
ahher industrious girls who arc looking fo
the medical profession a. the goal Of their
earthly ambition. She Is exceedingly
modest and reticent about herself. ana
regards what she has accomplished as
veTy. very little indeed. She says there
il no woman at present who has attained
eminence in the medical profession
The utmost she will allow for herself
! il that she was born with "rather ana cu-
ergetic organization One would ihink
so indeed She Is the daughter OF george
+. Putnam, the we'll known publisher iHee
eldest daughter in a large family ln "hllA
the girls were not expected % work TOT
living All that was expected OF theh
was to live omtOrtably at home til the
future husband came. They were not
poor enough 10 be obliged % do amy thing
for their own living and by no means
rich enough TO have all they wanted,
Mary did not have much of am opInioh
of three or four grown daughters who
live shut up in one house under such cir-
Instances, and being OF 'uther an en-
ergetic organization she took the bit n
her teeth and resolved 10 carve out her
own destiny.
Nothing is SO eNaspcraung 90 me,
says she, las to see four or five women
trying to do the work of oue-is exactly
like negro servants. The more work
every human being can do, the moro
value he or she is 70 every other human
being"
She somehow became impressed when
a child that independence was as ueces
sary for girls rs for boys and 30 was
while yet a child that she resolved to
study medicine. She took 10 10 By "a sort
of impulse or instinct, actually before
| she was old enough to notice whether
women ever studied medicine or not.
/ Time only strengthened the resolution,
and when she was old enough "a study
medicine, she simply, "set Co work to
earn the money 10 do it with. 0ho
taught school aud wrote for newspapers,
and thus this young woman who had
rather an energetic organization, paid
for her own medical education.
She went to Paris, aud brayely knocked
at the lofty doors OF the Ecolc de Mode
cine. 1t was proposed 90 her To- Disguise
herself as "A man, and enter there. SHE
told them she was too title for that, and
she wouldn't do it anyhow. They told
her only one woman student had ever
been in the Ecole aud that woman was
supposed TO be a police spy, WINS sixty
years old, and very ugly. She replied
that she was not sixty years old, but As
far as ugliness went, She thought she
could pass muster Whereupou the Pro-
fessor laughed, and urged no more u1-
Ijections. Finally, through the influence
, of various individuals, among them A.
. Durnv, Minister Of Public Instruction,
she was admitted 90 the school Once
in, this American girl, with rather au
energetic organization took the hr-t
, rank among the students and kept o..
She had her own way % maize it She
studied medicine, although If she did not
study medicine she could go home and
, live comfortably aud DO nothing tIl
doomsday. She elected to take the study
, Of medicine, and pay her own way ~
during the first half of her student life
! she lived in an attic, tloored with brick,
!, and spent so many sous a day for her live
p ing.
She patronized restaurants where they
> gave bread a discretion instead off
:, counting IL on the bill, so that She could
eat all she wanted without paying extra,
. and lived up in her garnet, and studied
4 like a vengeance, without Thought chat
n she was doing anything at all past com
mon.
Well, time went on, ~ length hcJ
= course of study was finished, tins Yam
~ kee girl, with an energetic organization
. wrote a graduating thesis, aud took th
first prize in the shape of medal from
:; the French Ecole de Medicine. IhoI
:, there was an excitement over her, SURF
"a enough, but still she went ON as modes
80 and unconscious as though she yet ha
"A done nothing at all uncommon.
- During all the time Of her busy Ia
!, borious life, her health has been " amin
80 terruptedly robust" Thank heaven ther
=, - is one woman alive who can say that
~ The opinions Of such a woman ar
- worth noting and quoting Among oih'
1e things, she firmly opposes the notion Cha
ts a woman, merely AZ a woman, is euutIe
=, TO pecumary support. Unless her uu
al is occupied wholly by the cares of mott
La erhood and housekeeping, q woman ha
IL as much right 10 earn her own living ns
- man has, says Mrs. Putnam-Jncobl nu
a 81 and Paul agree" A girl cerIaIn
al has as much right 30 earn her own Twin
bv as a boy has, and any other doctrine w
'cr be demoralizing TO both the girl and o.
ms boy.
10 The lesson Of Mrs. Jacobs iiie thr
:, far is, that what she has done with D..
gifts other women with other gifts m.
,is do, if they set their heads and One
~, hearts on it. And if they accomplish
a. much as she has already done. they ISL
90 be accepted and honored az she be-. No.
n. ing is surer than that.