The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-28

and if he was not, he had better take his
name off the rolls. She received her diploma
by the next mall
Emma NJ Gillett is probably the youngest
member of the Washington bar, in years as
we'll as date of admission. Six years ago she
came here mere child and entered Mrs.
Lockwood's office, where, for a time she
barely paid her board by her clerical work,
reading law all the time. After short time
she was appointed notary public by the
President and soon had business enough to
pay all expenses. Last May she graduated
as master of law from the Howard University
law school, reading the opening thesis. She
is possibly twenty five or six not handsome,
but sweetly interes ling and comedy to the
verge of prettiness She was admitted to the
bar, passing a splendid examination far ahead
OF several male applicants, and Las been APP
pointed by the court in general term as ex-
amner IN chancery, the first woman ever so
distinguished in this city; also, the first to be
appointed notary public. Mrs. Lockwood
says of her: "She paid her way by her own
work from the first, and she will probably
pay her way to the end; lovely, amiable,
gifted, energetic woman"
There are number of lady physicians
here the two best known being Mrs Caro-
line Winslow and Miss Susan Edison; these
are both of the homeopathic school, and
both have very large practice among the
| aristocratic circles of young America. Miss
EuSOL dCnleNeu q WOTIu-WlQe reDOWn as one
OF the Presidents attendants though the
gentlemen of the press, following the usual
/ masculine plan, tried to tarnish her glory by
clubbing her as nurse, when the fact is Gar
field was nursed entirely by his doctors, even
Bliss taking his turn with the rest. Mrs.
Mary Spackman is physician of the allo-
pathic school, and has a large practice
! among those of her own sex and their chill
dren. She does not desire other practice be-
cause, as she says, she adopted the profession
to relieve her own sex from the necessity of
such unpleasant familiarity, and she thinks
she would not be consistent to begin by
taking male patients, though she would not
let one die if he could get no one else. Mrs.
Spackman came here a widow with two
children, to take place in the departments;
she worked faithfully for Uncle Sam all day
and did all her domestic Work, including
washing and ironing, after night all this
time she was reading medicine and attending
the lectures at Howard University twice
week. hiring a man to take her in a carriage,
as she was unprotected. She graduated
with honor and began to gather few pa
tients whom she attended after office hours.
1t was not long till this became known,
when she was promptly bounced, although
several gentlemen physicians stayed on in re-
ceipt of government pay, when their list of
patients had increased so as to take up three
fourths of their Office hours. The brave lit
tie woman never gave in. She was attentive
anu KIM, anu patients sent LOT ner on all
sides. She has been in practice about six
years now, is acknowledged in consultation
by some of our leading DOCTORS has house
for which she refused $4,000 in cash few
months since, keeps her own carriage hired
man to attend it and woman to do the
house work, has a beautiful daughter who
is teacher in the public school, and prom
Using son just coming into manhood.
Mrs. M. Cora Bland is pretty generally
known in Indiana, through her literary
work among you, as bright, energetic wo-
man. She is graduate of the homeopathic
and also the eclectic school, practicing the
latter. She has not been long in practice
here, but is making a good salary already
and growing fame also. Mrs. Bland
makes no distinctions as to sex in her
patients, declaring that she never
could see why ii man should be more modest
than a woman, and as women all over the
country employ male physicians, she thinks
the rule may as we'll be made to work both
ways her best patients are men, and it is
living she desires to make, rather than to
promulgate an idea.
The lady doctors of Washington have thus
early in the race found the true inwardness
of the protector fable to be the same as that
in the old Greek reader about THE Wolf and
the Lamb"
Some years ago the Columbia Lying-in
Hospital was founded by women, the whole
thing being the fruit of their own concep-
ton and labor; and for the sole use of
women also, as its name indicates; and yet
to-day that institution is run by men, the
housekeeper and her body of under-servants
being the only women connected with it.
The women of this country have long since
solved for themselves the problem with
which our politicians are still wrestling, and
have learned that protection does not always
protect. MoUsE-IN-THE-C CORNER.