The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-03-08

they may bring rellef TO thousands OF
Chinese women, who will under no cir
cumstances submit themselves to male
physicians.
Perhaps we can draw light, says the
New York Graphic, from the oldest
and the most peculiar civilization. The
average Chinese woman is not person
of remarkable delicacy, but she does
object to certain very coarse customs
which our civilization encourages.
There is no good reason why we should
not have women physicians. The OBJ
lection frequ, ntly made that they could
not attend male patients in Il variety
of cases applies with equal force to
male physicians who are expected to
attend women in certain eases. 1t is
demoralizing 10 thousands OF women
to subject themselves TO the services OF
persons of the opposite sex. They re-
spect their virtue less. The necessity
is taken advantage of by q good many
physicians, as facts abundantly show,
though it is the truth that the medical
profession is probably purer than
some others of which purity is more
authoritively demanded. The situa-
ton is an unnatural one. If women
who desire to be physicians had their
rights it would in very short time
come to be looked upon as barbarity.
Why should not women have the
same right to be physicians that men
hayeP There are specialties in medi-
cine, as in everything else. There are
doctors of the eye and ear, of the lungs,
of particular diseases of every kind.
The woman physician would attend al
most wholly to the demands of her own
sex, and her experience ought TO teach
her, in addition to the education neces-
sary to the position, great deal that
men can not possibly learn. The Chi
nese woman partially presents the
right idea. There must be treatment
for women, but it should be the privi-
lege of women to administer it.
l. WOMEN MORE DARING THAN MEN,
But women are always more daring
than men, exclaims the San Francisco
Chronicle. When they want 10 do \
thing they will endure as no man will
to accomplish their ends. A woman
has a very clear idea of what she is en-
titled to and what she may with safety
claim. She can not go to dog-tight,
or wrestliDg-match, or slJgging en-
counter, although she would like to.
But she can bully man if he does not
do what she is entitled to. She can
make a car-conductor' hair turn gray
in the distance of block. She can,
and she enjoys doing it, drive'the most
patient storekeeper to the verge of in
sanity. She is capable of going down
town sixteen times to change paper
of pins. Those things everybody knows.
But if one wants to see the woman in
her highest state of independence and
aggression against man. let him 90
and quietly look on at a matinee NJ the
theater When woman takes her
seat there is no power on earth that
will induce her to bulge. If one comes
late and has to pass Il dozen others to
to expect. She does not attempt to
apologize or to implore-she simply
walks over them, and they make her if
she doesn't want to-. 1t is quite posi-
BILE the seat does not belong to her.
She never comes out until the perform
ance is over, even if the owner has TO
sit in the aisle. She will 90 and take
vacant seat in the front row il she sees
it, and when the usher asks for her
check she will calmly inform him that
she will keep the seat till the owner
comes. When the owner does come
possession is ten points of the law and
the usher willis.
CANADIAN AND AMERICAN BEAUTY.
A good deal is being said nj present
about the comparative beauty of En-
glish and American women. Lord
Colerdge, it seems, gives the palm for
both beauty and intellect TO the Ameri-
cans. Sir Lepel Griffin, on the other
hand, Is strongly in FAVOR of the En-
glish and Canadians, and in this con-
nection mentions Toronto ladies as
very generally noticeable for good
looks and fresh, healthy compilations.
Sir Lepel is inclined to attribute great
deal of this superiority which he as
signs to the English and Canadian sis
terhOod partly to climatic influences,
and still more TO the habits of every
day life generally prevalent He says
that both English and Canadian ladies
take far more outdoor exercise in
great variety of specified ways, do a
great deal more walking, and busy
more in the activities of
and religious exercises.
There is a great deal of truth in all
this, says the Toronto G ODE. Persons
shut up for the most part of a long,
cold winter in hot and comparatively |
ill-ventilated houses, with scarcely any
thing but what, as if in mockery, is
called carriage exercise" must soon
have bleachej and delicate appear
ance, which passes speedily from the
OF youth 10 something
anything nut attractive. In trying TO |
help others, many ladies, in short, are |
themselves hcipcl 10 better health, bet |
ter splits, AMI better looks,