The Red Cloud chief., 1884-07-25
Wenol and Qnacks.

Inc tentn uvA1g VIE OF q DOCTOR
Hirschberg. who Is just been released
from the Louis{illo workhouse and is
again under arrskt, charged with big
amy, tells q lon. sssoy OF the doctors
adventures. She hss Information with
regard to five of his coppanions. He
began by marrying q German nurse
girl in the Cincinnati hospital. Then.
ut Buffalo, he married an Irish girl; at
Cleveland he married Jewess; at
Montreal a French girl and at New
Orleans a mulattO. Since then, the
tenth wife says, he has married six diff
ferent American women, and che rather
thinks he is the most successful smash
or" in the world. az
The queerest part OF the inforlna lion
relates. however, to the gullibility of
the average woman, her utter failure -
a Judge of character. her apparent
eagerness to marry, and her readin&s 50
to accept the advances of men Of whom
she knows positively. nothing. Vcry
likely the doctor selected his victims
from the lower classes of women: but
there should be sharpness about them
to a certain extent, and indeed we be-
lieye the necessity which constantly
surrounds them is calculated to sharpen
rather than dull their wits. The quack
has many patients, but as a matrimo-
NAL adventurer he should certainly
have few victims. Anybody, even the
most ignorant and the dullest person,
should know the quaek as a humbug at
sight. 1t is not entirely surprising that
men and women should employ him as
a physician, for the aches and Pains
they wish to get rid of frequently make
them mentally weak, and when the
regular physician has failed they have
nothing to do in their despair but pray
for miracles and patronize the quack;
but that a Oma should voluntarily
place her life and all that she has in
the hands of such q person and expect
happiness as a result passes the ordi.
nary comprehension.
And the quack need not be hand.
some. or a promising person in any
way. If he be twice the age Of the
woman and fit only, judging from his
looks and achievements, for association
with idiots. that makes no difference
at all. He has q glib tongue. and that
covers all the deficiencies. He talks tC
the woman smoothly and at length.
using the largest words and aping the
largest erudition, and the less she
catches his meaning the moro she
admires him. He wears glasses and
looks wise. His business has given
him an impotence that passes in her
mind for the confidence that sometimes
attends knowledge and experience, and
she is . poor critic. Probably she has
had few chances to marry-for the
quack 10 shrewd in his selections Is .
general thing--and her eagerness tc
marry is the main cause Of her destruc.
ton: but how many cases are there Of
<&Ally bright and handsome women
NO have become enamored Of aged
An ignorant quacks and have continued
TO Ave affection for them until they
turrH9 out to be scoundrels as we'll?
IhASuccess Of this Kentucky auack
VIII bs94k to the readers mind q dozen
similar NAes, and the question whether
WON re progressing Is much IS it is
clsin1ed ~ are ought to be brought
beforelhe Vehating societies: but there
Is n patoptiCsidc to the matter in the
necessity OH naAiicts most Unprotected
women o44ngs0 the limited proportions
of the moneytSniarc able to earn. and
in their natoxets Nd acquired yearnine
for the homesyhiS. every woman ought
to hava.-M GAease.