Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-01-25
From Boston.

BOSTON, MASS, January 8, $780,
Editor of Womans Chronicle
chance greeting given me on the street today
brought such a flood of memories that | must
write you a few lines, though the midnight oil will
be the cost.
AS was passing along the street this afternoon
boy bowed and said, elbow do you do, teacher?"
My beautiful new sealskin medicine CASE my
mothers Christmas gift, did not betray my changed
occupation, for everyone in Boston carries leather
bag, and l suppose the mark of the school-room is
indelibly stamped on my features.
never sing, but have purchased copy of the
song 'Pse Gwine Back to Dixie" and OCCASION
ally my friends sing it to me.
La Grippe, which seems to be making the tour
of the world, keeps even the embryo doctors busy.
Day before yesterday Boston had its highest death
rate. Eighty-fve deaths seemed large number
even for Boston. We have had some special lee
lures on the influenza One day no lectures came
for our class. Our professors were all busy or
sick. The time is not wasted however, we always
have more than we can do Last year we had anat-
omy, chemistry and physiology, and thought we
were kept busy, but now we know we did not real
ize the meaning of the word. One woman came
to me today and said II wish you would tell me
how can be in several places at once. DR.. B.
wants me in the amphitheater, DR.. P. is waiting
for us at the hospital, must go to Dr. C.'s chest
clinic and here is DR.. S. looking around to see
where he can get in some extra lectures" We
heard today from one of our professors that there
should be penalty imposed for outrageous pen
manship. A physician wrote port wine and the
drug clerk read wine of opium. OF course this
did not emanate from our college, 1 have OBJ
served tendency that the people here have to
locate all their disagreeable stories the other side
of the Mississippi river. How any one can take
down lectures five hours day and keep his pen
manshp good is problem to me. Our lecturer
on pathology is foreigner. We cannot under
stand three consecutive words. Some of the lee
lures are illustrated with the stereoptlcon, and the
notes we take in darkened room are not very
legible We have clinics in the following depart
ments, dental, medical, surgical, women's, chill
drens skin, nervous, eye and ear, rectal, surgical,
throat and chest. We have six hours week at
the hospital and all the outside work that we can
find time for. Add to this hours of work in the
laboratory and home study, and you will see that
we have no time to sleep or eat Literary lecture
courses, entertainments of all kinds, come and go,
and we are oblivious to them.
In the midst of this city full of all the things
we want to know, we live in a separate world.
Mrs Dewey, Miss Waters and Miss Covngton are
in the n E. Conservatory, not three hundred feet
away, and yet weeks pass without our meeting.
Our work is pleasant and we love the study, but
the cases in actual life are not such 'perfect pic
lures of the remedies" as we wish they were.
have thought that no reward could equal
teachers The greatest satisfaction and the hap
pest experiences have come to me in the school
room. But the satisfaction which comes when you