The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-12-17
FEMALE AVOOATIONs.

In the San Antonio Express we End the
advertisement of female physician who
offers her professional services to the public,
announcing that the diseases Of women and
children, either chronic or acute, are spe-
cialty. Now it strikes us that this is emf
nently proper that women should BIO
physicians and treat specially the diseases of
their own sex and of children. A few years
ago, comparatively, society rebelled at the
idea of women studying medicine, and we
were personally witnesses to the stoning OF
female physician graduate in medicine by
certain male students as she rode by
in her carriage. But like every other
innovation, it has gradually worked
itself forward, and now the doors Of a number
of medical colleges are open to female stu
dents. The subject of education is one that
is sgitatipg the people 10 a great extent all
over the country. Here, in Texas, it is looked
upon as being of such Importance that it was
attempted to be forced as n political issue in
the last state canvass The people Of the
state are alive to the necessities of education
for their children, and we SEQ public and pri-
vate schools in every neighborhood. A
normal school has been established
and is being supported by the
state, and there seems to be general de-
msnd that the next legislature shall make
provision for two more normal schools. The
state has founded and endowed two agricul-
tural and mechanical colleges-one for
whites and the other for the freedmen, and
the governor is welded to the immediate es-
Enlistment of state university, for which
some provision has already been made in
money and in lands. The determination
seems TO be manifest oil over the state too.
that the Legislature must do something TO
perfect our common public school
system so that there will bo longer terms Of
the tree schools. All these efforts and ell
this awakened and awakening interest in the
importance of education is gratifying and
commendable id the extrcre, but in no phase
oft do we see any sign of proper thought
being had or care taken for the future of our
girls. Why should not girls be brought up
to avocations rs well rs boys' We do not
mean to say that we have arrived yet at such
point as that every calling in life should be
open to girls, for there are many of them, as
the popular thought upjustly now runs,
neither becoming nor suitable, but
any and all such pursuits as their physi-
cal strength is equal to, should certainly
be freely and at once permitted to Thorn. La
dies can become booK.keepers, saleswomen
etc., in dry goods, notion and millinery
stores. They would certainly make excellent
pharmaceutists, and we see that they are filing
useful spheres in life AS physicians, for their
services in the sick room as nurses cannot
be equaled by those of mon. AS teachers, as
writer's of fiction, rs mucisians, women are
every day becoming famous. 1t is not TO
every man who can give to his daughter a
competence that she may live without work
when he is dead and the world
is full of widows and young women with
helpless ones dependent upon their exertions
for livelihood, and what must they do ?
Is no avenue for support, save that of
keeping boarding. house, or sewing, to be
open to them ? If our girls are taught book
keeping; if they are permitted without be.
ing taboced in society by the frowns of Mrs.
Grundy, to become saleswomen and learn
mercantile pursuits, or if they be allowed to
study pharmacy, and are encouraged in
learning the profession of medicine, will
they not be just as lovable
in the home circle, just as charming in the
drawing room, just as valuable to society, as
they are, growing.up in ignorance of these
thin And with these acquisitions, if they
should be thrown on their own resources for
a livelihood, will they not know how better
to get along and better to battle with the
world?