Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-02
fitness Of professional life for women under.

fitness OF professional life for women under.
went further disintegration.
,"NGthiDg could De more refined he said to
look half so feminine"
But If the canny Mrs Putnam had expected
that her pretty and professional daughter
would establish herself In another vocation
when she sent her on missionary visit among
the Franklin hills hers was hope deferred,
For it was year after this before the CORES
poGdence, OF which specimen Is appended
enriched the department:
HE TO HER.
so have been offered the Professorship
ofthe Classics at = College. WIN you come.
too? l would not ask you while my lines were
fixed at Franklin, wanting 20 leave you free 70
live your own life of books and thought and
work, which there you could not do. AT =
the society is delightful. and think you would
be happy. II 1t Is your wish still to practice
your profession have 30 more right, as tru, t
/ have no more wish, to object, than you would
have concerning mine. And, indeed. l hold
that there Is no nobler work in the world than
yours. Personally 1t would Ill become me to
limit your benehcence For know. Doctor Alus.
that have not had vestige of Sick hea1acue
In six months. / said I would give thru OF
my life to save the other two from its ravages.
Take, o Doctor, thrice the fee
Fer Invisible to ihee,
Lewis b ne have gone from me.
Does this not sound like a love letter! II do
not say that l adore you with all my heart.
and soul, and mind, ard strength, tt is because
IL.
else about me, by witchcraft. believe. months
on months ago. And II seem too jolly for the
attitude OF prayer assume, 1t Is because the
hope OF having you always mas gone to my
you. by intervals OF agon!ztng pain from ms
birtb), and intoxicated me, as with the mead
of TIE gods Would not Doctor Larkin' serve
every end as well as Doctor Putnam Brutus
will start spirit az soon as Caesar.
II use this form Of eDtreaty rather than
another more familiar 10 poets and lovers be
cause you assured me that, before all things,
hedged about with danger. At the other
day was even offered and pressed upon with
PR! If have housekeeper, l doubt not
that poisonous compound Will be daily on the
table and presently, In an unvigilant moment,
perhaps when am lost in reflection on
doubtful fctus, ! shall fall! My life or at
least my digestion, which in your view is more
eoan re- M it y0u A ss Seve eo 5Sa Tor
charming house at -, and the reception
room seems to me peculiarly eligible as an
office. You shall have it On the most favorable
terms, and permanently, By addressing at once.
'Your devoted, n. L."
SHE TO HIM.
DEAR SIR:-My diagnosis Is favorable. Your
summary CT 81 mptoms fiEd satisfactory. No
headache in six months. Coed A capacity to
laugh over serious issues, and make the best OF
things such as would have been quite in
possible to you year or SO ago Better. A
the necessity OF obedience to your medical
adviser In all things Best. What you say
OF the advantages OF the Office you offer me
has Te ceived my attention. l consider myself
Well placed, with q Rapidly growing practice.
But as my greatest success has been in the
relief Of maladfes OF the nerves and
digestion. and as college town Is a settlement
OF dJ Speptics, martyrs TO sick headache. the
ten ptatiOn to enlarge knowledge in my Spe-
cialty is overmaster!pg. l Will therefore take
tie Office en- the terms proposed, reserving TO
myself the right to use 1t for DoudOlr. reception
sor OF Greek and Latin at - College, should
It seem to me advisable. l VIII trouble you
to have the key ready whenever dem and It;
ard remain, with recommendation to follow
Ire atment as previously advised.
Truly yours, A. p,
"PS.-IC was the b5liat OF the ancients that
the liver was the seat OF the affections This
was some time paradox, but LOS the time
gives IL proof"