The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-02-07

heating and mOlding the wax, selecting
the teeth, arranging them on the mold,
and showing by her dexterous handling
of the materials, that she was engaged
in an everyday occupation.
"Haye you met with any opposition
in your practice" was asked.
"Of course my house and my shops
are my own, and can do as / choose. /
have many customers among my German
friends, and Just go along and attend to
my own business. 1t was very fortunate
for me that / was able to do actual work
when my first husband went away. was
somewhat annoyed once when some Of
the Dental College professors said there
was no woman practicing dentistry in
New York. | believe it was published
in the Sun. Some of my friends wished
me to contradict it at the time, but |
did not care to do it, as there are very
many of my customers and friends who
have seen me work, and my license is
my justification"
"Do you know other women dent
ists?"
"There are several in New York who
carry on the branches, but | know Of
none who work at the practical part, as |
do. There was a woman once came to
me with recommendations from Berlin,
where she had learned the art of dentist
ry ! think she went back to Berlin.
Then | heard Of a Russian woman who
learned ut the Dental College"
Prof Fanueil ID. Weiss, NJ d., one of
i.1 - I ~ ~
Twenty-third street, said "Since the
establishment of this college, in 1865
| there has been but one woman gradual
ed. Her name was S. V. Swiderski, and
she was countess. Her father was a
physician of st. Petersburg, and her hus-
band, like the husbands of other count
esses, squandered her fortune in gam
bling. She determined to earn a living
for herself and child by the practice Of
dentistry. She came to this city with
letters of introduction SO strong that she
obtained admission to the class of this
college. She was a lady of refinement,
of prepossessing manners and appearance
She readily commanded the respect of
the students, and went through the
course without personal trouble with
any of them. Her presence was I'M
doubtedlyf felt assomewhat Of a restraint,
and made it necessary to change some
what the discussion of physiological sub
jects, but the students generally liked
her. She failed to pass at her first ex-
animation, but subsequently studied up
and passed. She went to st. Petersburg,
where, | am told, she is practicing sue
sessfully."
Have you had many applications
from women to join your classesY
We get one every year or two, but
our policy is to discourage them. We
tell the young women that the chances
are that the association with students
such as is necessary here, is apt to be
unpleasant. 1t has been found to be
impracticable in most medical schools.
At Harvard the sexes have been sepa-
rated, and the conviction is pretty gem
eral that that is the best way. Isolated
cases occur, like that of Mrs. Mary Put
nam jacob, but such capable women as
she is are rare"
Has there been any attempt to COM
pei your institutions to receive female
studentsT'
Nothing more than articles in news
papers. We persuade the Young women
that they had better not come, and they
don't, There are several dental colleges
that do graduate women"
The woman dentist in New Haven is
Mrs. r. Jones Young, who has been
practlcing more than twenty wears
She has an establishment in Chanel
street, and has earned competence in
that business.
The actress, Miss Adelaide Detchon.
has a younger sister, Miss Jessie T..
Detchon, who has just been graduated
after full two years course Of study in
the Philadelphia Dental College. She
received the first degree granted by the
institution to female. She has already
established an Office on Girard street for
the practice of her profession. She was
a little nervous at first about STUDYING
alone in class of male students. be.
cause some of them had threatened 10
make 1t too hot for her. But she was
treated with courtesy, and when she was
graduated said the young men were SO
nee mat she felt as though many of
them were as real brothers. She has
iouhdhermost remunerative work among
women and children. She formerly
studied medicine, but took up dentistry
because it gave her the opportunity for
regular hours of labor.
There was a German woman who grad
uated at the Pennsylvania Dental COLLEGE
who went to Austria and became tbe
private dentist Of the Empress Augusta.
dhere Is a woman in Hartford, Mrs. DR.
Bullock, who is reported to be skillful
practical dentist. There is a woman
dentist in Chicago, and another, Mrs
Anna Riley, somewhere in Ohio. Queen
Victoria has woman dentist, Mrs DR.
Kuby +. Clifford. There is woman
dentist in Vienna, Mrs. Anna Van
Daenlmng, whose practice is said to be
worth $4,000 year. "A widow Of one
oil the Diofenbach brothers has lonS
carried on a dental business in Grand
street, New York.
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