Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-01-30
Miscellaneous.
In Buen0s Ayres.
DENTISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, PHYSICIAN:
AND TEACHERS IN DEMAND.

DENTISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS. PHYSICIANS
AND TEACHERS IN DEMAND.
Throughout South America all the den
fists and nearly all the photographers are
immigrants from the United States, and if
there is any one among them who isn't
getting rich he has nobody but himself to
find fault with, because the natives give
both professions plenty to do.
Nowhere in the world is so large an
amount of confectionery consumed in pro-
portion to the population as in Spanish
America, and, as natural consequence,
the teeth of the people require a great
deal of attention. As usual thing Span
iards have good teeth, as they always have
beautiful eyes. and are very particular in
keeping them in good condition. Hence
the dentists are kept busy, and. as they
charge twice as much as they do in the
United States. the profits are very large.
| In these countries it is the custom to
serve sweetmeats at every meal-dulces,
as they are called-preserved fruits of
the richest sorts, jellies and CONNECTIONS of
every variety and description. Many of
these are made by the nuns in the con-
vents and are sold to the public either
through the confectionery stores or by
private application. A South American
housewife, instead of ordering jams and
preserves and jellies from her grocer. or
putting up a supply in her own kitchen
during the fruit season, patronizes the
nuns and gets better article at a lower
price. The nuns are very ingenious in
this work and prepare forms of delicacies
which are unknown to our table.
At dinner party. not long ago, dessert
was brought in in a novel form. A tray
which appeared to be filed with hard
boiled eggs was placed before the hostess.
who gave each guest couple. and poured
! over them some sort of syrup or dressing.
In strange country the tourist is always
on the lookout tor odd things, but this
seemed to cap the climax-hard- boiled
eggs at a swell dinner party for dessert
But it was soon discovered that the white
of this bogus egg was blanc Mango, and
the yolk was made of ounce Jelly, egg
shells being used for molds. This was an
idea of the nuns, and one OF their ingenious
fixngs.
The photographers as we'll as the dem
fists are Americans, and have all they can
do. The Spanish American belle has her
photograph taken every time she gets a
new hat and dress. and that is very often.
The Paris styles reach here as they do the
North American cities, and where the
national costumes are not still worn, there
is great deal of elaborate dressing. The
Argentine Republic is the only country in
which photographs of ladies are not sold
in the shops. Elsewhere there is craze
for portraits of reigning beauties, and the
young men have their rooms filled with
photographs of the girls they admire, taken
in all sorts of costumes and attitudes.
There are a great many physicians and
surgeons from the United States in South
America, and they usually, ii worthy,
have more extensive clientage than the
natives. There is an excellent field for
female physicians here, and it is at pres
ent unoccupied. In most of the countries
physician is not permitted to see lady
patient except in the presence of her hus-
band, and many women die for lack of at
tention. The social laws are infexibe in
this respect, and many women will suffer
tormcnts rather than expose themselves to
criticism by receiving treatment from male
practitioners. No woman, except she be
of the common laboring class, will visit
the office of physician, and, as fees tor
attendance at their homes are very high.
many suffer and die from neglect based
upon motives OF modesty and economy
There is only one lady physician in
South America that know Of and she is
practicing with great success in Guatema
la. Others might secure equal advan-
tages in Venezuela, Columbia, Peru, Chill,
Argentina. Uruguay and Brazil but it
would be necessary for them to acquire
thorough knowledge of the Spanish Ian
guage and secure favorable introductions
before hanging out their shingles.
| EXPresident Sarmiento, the founder of
the public school system in the Argentine
Republic, is the leading advocate of the
higher education of women in South Amer
lea, having gained his advanced ideas
while minister to the United States. He
is an intimate friend and regular cores
pendent of Mrs. Horace Mann. Mrs Julia
Ward Howe, Mrs. Elizabeth Cadv Stanton
and other prominent women of the United
States. and has imbibed from them the
theories OF the equality of sex which their
lives have been spent in demonstrating.
Through his instrumentality some forty
American girls, graduates of Vassar,
Wellesley. Mount Holyoke and other in
stitutons, have been employed under ten
years contracts by the Argentine govern
ment in the normal schools and female
seminaries of this country, and their sue
cess has been phenomenal.
| These teachers receive salaries varying
from 800 to $3.50 per month. and are
placed in positions. social as we'll as pro-
| fessional, which they could not hope to
acquire at home. 1t every instance they
have conducted themselves with the most
commendable dignity. and although some
of the economists in congress and in the
newspapers are grumbling over the large
salaries hey receive, they are greeted
with the greatest distinction. and are en-
tertained by the government in a manner
that our own educational authorities
might well imitate.-Buenos Ayres Cor.
NctC York Sun.
The SOrcery of Drink.