The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-31
TIE Do1Nas OF WOMEN FOLK.
Women Physicians Abroad-Wo omen
Actors and Artists at Home.

women PHYSICIANS AbrOad-WOmon
Actors and Artists at Home.
NEW YORK, Dec 29-There are just
ixty women who have taken medical diplo-
mas emitting them to enter their names on
he British register of duly qualified medi-
al practitioners. OF these two are dead
md seventeen have gone to india, leaving
nly forty-one in Great Britain. OF the
orty-one, twenty-one are engaged as lee
urers or instructors in the London and
Edinburgh medical colleges for women or
Is medical officers to hospitals, dispensaries
r other institutions, leaving only twenty
Who depend solely on private practice.
These facts were brought to my notice dur
ng an afternoon at the London Medical
College for Women, and they indicate that
The field for the professional woman is under
less thorough cultivation abroad than in
America.
And yet English women physicians have
AIKEN high degrees at the universities
Miss Ramsay's Cambridge successes made
ber famous. but she did no more than Miss
Gle anora Fleury, who wassssent up igy the
london Medical College for the m dical
Examination of the Royal University of
ireland and who took the highest position
If all the candidates entered, no male STU
lent approaching her record to degree
hat would entitle him to be ranked in the
tame class. One large hospital in London
S under the care of women entirely, and
three other hospitals and six dspansaries
ire managed wholly or IN part by women.
The granting of the first medical posts in
the civil service to women was the work of
the late Postmaster General Fawcett, a
brother-in-law of Mrs. Elizabeth Garrett
Anderson. one of the most successful women
physicians of England and said to be the
bn.y woman physician who is able to ex-
act fees as high as those demanded by the
most successful men. Mr.. Fawcett ap-
pointed DIR. Edith Shove medical officer for
The efemale staff of the general pos5office.
and appointed three women as medical
superintendents to the London, Liverpool
and Manchester postoffices. The North
London Collegiate School for girls has
woman as its resident physician, and SO has
The Girls School at Sheffield. A woman is
Che medical examiner for the life insurance
and annuity fund for the general postoffice
And yet women with whom l talked on the
subject did not rate women's chances in
few notable exceptions it was life and
death struggle for woman to build up a
practice. The bulwarks of conservatism
stood fast against the innovation, and the
young graduates were fiocking to India as
medical missionaries, superintendents of
hospitals and Zenana physicians, in answer
10 a very real demand, and aided generously
Dufferin. The Lady Dufferin hospital, at
Calcutta the Kama Hospital, at Bombay;
tina Maternity Hospital, at Lahore; the
Medical College, at Madras; the Victoria
Hospital, at Madras; the hospital at Luck
now. a dispensary at Poona, and numbers
of other colonial institutions are now Off
cered. some wholly, some in part by women,
thus affording an outlet for the talent
which England seems in no haste to employ
at home.
THE QUESTION is RAISED PERIODICALLY,
why do women go upon the stage9 A COM
plete answer would seem to be afforded by
such a career as that of Lila Vane Miss
Vane is Miss Lively off the stage, and Lila
Lively is the proper title Of the young
woman who supported Clara Morris last
season and who is now doing leading business
in William Gillette's play, "A Legal Wreck, )"
from the Madison square theater. Miss
Vane has had the pens of Joe Howard, Jr.,
and Nym Crinkle dipped in glowing ink to
picture the bright promise of her career.
She is an exceptionally pretty young
woman and as good as she is sweet faced
but many women equally beautiful, equally
lovely in character and great deal more
clever, have heard the howlings of very
hungry wolf at the door because they didn't
have Lila Vane's common sense in choosing
a career which gives with lavish generosity
10 a woman.
Miss Vane's mother was a southern
woman who had a plantation and was rich
in slaves. The war made her poor. She
came north and sent Lila TO the Mount ST.
Vincent Academy, which graduated Miss
Morosini. the original coachman's bride
Lila did not like TO study and to say the
truth did not succeed in learning great
deal. The memory of Mount st. Vincent
which she cherishes with the greatest pleas
ure is that of an evening when Richard
Henry Stoddard gave a stereopticon lee
ture and she led a group of lively demsels
who took advantage of the darkness To pelt
him within schoolgirl language, spitbaIls
Lila decided before she went TO school to
go upon the stage as soon as her mother
considered her educated, and she made her
debut in a minor part in THE Professor
In those days she and her mother boarded
in Brooklyn, and the recollection is still
cherished of the perfect cheerfulness with
which she divided her $50 week salary,
paying the board bill for the two of them
as regularly as the day came round, deny
ing herself every small luxury or innocent
dissipation TO keep her mother comfortable
She never INDUCED in naughty late suppers
with gilded youth who admired her, but the
click of her latch key after the play was
over was as regular O. the absence of the
bridge and the uncertainties OF the ferries
permitted. Bread and butter, raw onions
lOf a SOpOTluC anu sue was IN DeU. one QlS-
liked the talk of men at little theatrical
parties to which she was invited SO thor
oughly that she finally refused all invita-
tions, and her joy was as innocent and as
.unfeigned as that of 10-year-old over a
simple ring with little diamond in it which
some unknown Individual threw her one
night in bunch of flowers. Pretty, good
little Lila Vane. But she was not very
clever. She never studied her parts and
she could not read an ordinary novel with
out miscailing simple words. She made a
curious piece of work Of passage from
Zola-not one of his bad books-which some
one asked her to read aloud one evening
She made her own home dresses precious
few she had-and her theatrical gowns
When she begged George Fawcett Rowe for
the part of Little Emily in 'David Copper
field" nobody believed that she could take
it; and indeed after she had her words let
ter perfect she asked somebody what the
play was all about and who Little Emily
was. for she had never read the story. In
her ignorance she got the dresses for the
role all wrong, and the manager made her
do them over. But her beauty and her
grace carried her through, and her $40 a
week was a very acceptable addition TO the
family income. She went south. s went
to Canada, but in whatever latitude she al
ways wrote to her mother every week and
always sent her money home. She enjoyed
her stage work, but she did not like TO
change plays. 1t was such task to learn a