Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-11-19
PRICE ONE CENT.
FAIR PHARMACISTS A FAILURE.
There Is No Place for Them In the Drug
Trade


There are hundred women pharma-
cists in New York city. but not one in
business They have charge of the dis
pensaries connected with converts. asy-
lums. hospitals. homes, and charitable
Institutions They are capable, skillful,
and progressive, and their number is
steadily increased by the fair solitaire
that ornaments nearly every class gradu-
ated from the pharmaceutical schools
and colleges, and yet there is not
woman in the drug business. nor drug
cist in New York who would willingly
make an opening for her in his store.
And the reasons She would kill the
business, unless chained to the prescrip-
ton counter and kept out of sight.
Said a well known Broadway mer-
chant: Il wouldn't give 50 n month 10
the best woman druggist you could pro-
duce; wouldn't have her about If she
agreed to work for nothing. don't say
that woman is untitled for pharmacy;
on the contrary, know that she excels,
her painstaking fi.lelity and acuteness
fitting her for the nice determinations
required in the compounding and prep
arations of medicines, bnt she would
be no good behind the counter. Men
would not trust her nor women confide
in her. A large percentage of the busi-
ness comes from the people who want
advice-advice that the doctors are not
generally called upon TO give. They
want a remedy for headache, burns,
bunions, chills. indigestion, prostration,
nervousness; they come in, show their
tongue, and describe their discom-
fort, and ask for dose of some-
thing. Give it to them? To be sure
we do-some light tonic or stimultnt to
quicken faith, which cures great deal
faster and bet er than drugs.
"Now, these people would not go to a
lady druggist Men would not trust to
her Judgment. They would argue
wisely enough. that never having had
swelled head of her own, she could
not prescribe intelligently for the re-
lief of that Inconvenience. The man
with the gripes would hardly go to her,
and the pet Of society could not be ex-
pected to confide the liberal amount Of
pates. ice cups. and liqueurs he had al
lowed himself the previous night
"Man's innate refinement would re-
strain him from consulting a woman on
the topics that are brought to the atten-
tion of male druggist daily.
"Woman's distrust is proverbial. She
Judges the gender by her own limited
knowledge, and has absolutely no conf
dence in feminine ability or judgment.
Hence the poor success Of professional
women. You know as well as do that
New York has as many starving doc
tresses as il has dressmakers They
can't get hold Men are not expected to
call them in and women won't There
are few exceptions, but they don't
count. their practice being confined to
charity patients and limited to babies
and young children.
"The fair sex believes in men without
questioning. and when it comes to a
choice between a great woman and a
goslng of man behind the medicine
counter the former would be passed
every time. Let woman once get re-
lief. benefit, or assistance from male
druggist and nothing will shake her
faith in him. She will consult him
whenever she is indisposed, act on his
advice and prize it above that of the
family physician"