Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-12-13

the Boys, the Girls Have Fun.
A half score of blooming young
lady students with Mother Hubbard
aprons stretching from their necks to
their dainty feet, and large silk hand
derchiefs tied about their heads like
turbans, stood last night around a
large marble table in one of the third
story front rooms of the Women's
Medical college on North College ave-
nue., says the Philadelphia Record.
On the operating table, for such it was,
lay the corpse of q woman with her
glass-like eyes wide open and her face
contOrted in an expression of despair.
The ten gentle sawoones" who en-
circled the table ranged in years from
1S to 80, and a death-like silence per-
vaded the room. Bending well over
the table, and so close together that
their turbaned heads touched, they
were eagerly working over the lifeless
body, their nimble fingers moving
back and forth as if they were picking
out nuggets of gold.
At the head of the corpse chubby
checked maiden, plump and short,
with her hair done up pompadour
style, and beautiful opal ring on her
left third finger, gazed long and hard
at the ghastly features, trying to To-
cate the various muscles about the
face and head. There was not sign
of emotion or fear on the faces of the
ten fair young disciples of Esculapius.
An intense earnestness and curiosity
possessed all of the budding physicians,
and they went at their work with such
expedition as to prove that they were
in for business. In their left hands
the girls all had pincers or forceps,
and with scalpel in the right hand
they cut boldly into the skin of the
corpse. Muscles were grasped by the
forceps and held high in the air. All
the material surrounding them was
then removed until the muscles re-
sembled string of sausages.
When this was done the lady DEM
onstrator, DIR. Elizabeth r. Bunting,
who had been silently and critically
inspecting the work of dissection, ap-
preached the head of the corpse, and,
rapping on the marble top of the Ia
bic with a pair of pincers, exclaimed:
"Class will please come to order"
The lady dem nstrator then ques-
toned each of the students about the
work. As she seized each of the mus
cles, sinews, arteries and nerves DR..
Bunting asked: "What is this? What
is its function?"
The glib tongues of the young Ia
dies tod the Latin names of the differ
ent parts and defined their functions
without hesitation. Finally when the
lady demonstrator approached one OF
the students, bright-eyed young
miss, there was litter all around the
room. Of the ten students this young
lady had been the only one to betray
the slightest emotion during the dis
section. She had gone about her
work tremulously and frequently big
lump arose in her throat.
"Miss L." said the demonstration
seizing hold of the pectoralis major,
"please tell me what muscle this is
and what are its functions?"
As the bright-eyed miss looked at
the muscle she grew pale, shuddered,
and, putting a handkerchief to her
pretty lips, she looked imploringly at
the lady professor.
"Do you feel sick?" anxiously in.
quircd the demonstrator, while the
whole class Uttered.
The young lady tearfully nodded
her head and was given permission to
leave the room.
"She'll brace up by-and-bye," re.
marked a pretty dimple-cheek student
to companion.
DIR. Bunting then took her position
at the head of the corpse and said
"The class will please pay attention to
what will be done now."
DIR. Bunting proceeded to make a
couple of incisions in the throat, and
pointed out the difference between
laryfigotomy and tracheotomy, as the
demonstration picked out each of the
muscles and explained them in many
jOinted Latin terms which the young
ladies had to take in sections.
At the close of the lecture DIR. Bunt.
ing, with broad smile on her face,
announced: "Girls, we have at pres
ent 90 corpses ON hand. This will en-
able us to do considerable dissecting
before Christmas"
The news was hailed with clapping
OF hands and strong expressions OF
satisfaction. With beaming faces the
girls made straight for the body which
they had been dissecting. Each one
got some of the bones, and wrapping
them in pieces of cloth hastened to
their rooms.
When the lady demonstrator was
questioned concerning the appropria-
ton the bones by the girls, she said
go, that's what the students always
do after they have dissected body.
They take the bones, dry them, and
keep them as mementoes of the old
days in college. 1t is q good scheme
and the girls are proud of the old
bones. Girls, after they get little
experience, do not mind handling dead
bodies. 1t is mawkish sentiment
that ladies cannot be good surgeons
and physicians. am confident that
the time is fast approaching when to
ladies will be delegated certain deli
cate surgical operations which they
only are fitted to dexterously perform. !"
ACCORDING to the census of 1880 we
have over sixty million people in the
United States and $51 ,76O 100000 in
property-more than enough to count
$l, 200 to every individual, or IS 900 to
family. The number of working
people in American manufactures in
1880 was 2,730,O00, and they averaged
$346 each, less than dollar a day.
In the same year we had 100000 of
farmers and farm hands they received
for their labor the average of $2S9
Taken collectively, the great mass of
American producers receive each
about 50 cents per day.
II is intimated that Canada is al
most ready to adopt a republican
form OF government. Truly the end
of monarchial rule on the Western
hemisphere is near at hand. Even the