San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-26

known to the public outside her immediate
family or neighborhOod.
| well remember the first time heard
good woman pray in public, which occurred
during IA revival excitement. and it was the
talk of the town for days afterwards. Her
well known pirty scarcely protected her
from open ribadry and rude censure with
outsiders, and even the members of her own
church became suddenly familiar with st.
Paul's manifesto upon the appearance of
females in the public exercises of the church.
4 few women in the world had made their
mark as authors mostly across the water, but
they were rare exceptions, forty years ago,
and mostly confined to nOvelistS of the scnSa-
tional order.
In Georgia women were in strict retiracy
as to public efforts either as wagr earners or
public readers, until Wesleyan Female col
lege broke the ice and made female education
and public commencement exercises the at
traction of tue whole state. Female colleges
for literary students sprung up quickly all
over the union, the education of women be
coming Juror with the evangelical churches
everywhere.
The Roman Catholic church has aldcl
academies to all Its principal converts, until
the convent proper has become almost an an
mex to the school rather than the parent stem
of the ORDER This advance has been fol-
lowed bv medical colleges for women, train
ing schools for nurses, and countless oppor-
tumlies in the north and west for learning
trlegraphv, stcnography and bookkeeping to
make money.
New Works great infant asylum is presided
over bv IA Tennessee woman, a graduate III
medicine; and there are scores Of female ply
slriars in lucrative practice i'll the very large
cities The public, at least. awoke to the
fact that female doctors were emnently pro-
per for the treatment of delicate, sensitive
women, who have often been victims to in
definite suffering rather than endure treat
ment from other practitioners.
WOMEN AS PHYSICIANS
Leaving out the benefit TO the general pub
lie, medical instruction would appear to be a
sine qua non for those who are intrusted with
the infancy of the human race, at period
when the mortality is greatest and the pa
tient most helpless. \ mother who can read
and write is, of course, a benefit to her off
spring, but a mother who can nurse and ply
sic it property is a prime necessity. When
yoI recolIcct that she has been forced hereto
fore to rely upon the direction and medical
management Of others, in taxing care Of her
children at critical periods, Ii Is plain that her
scope Of usefulness HAS hrrn improperly re-
-lrIrt"d, unless II cam h"Nh'"H thal her mnd
Is Incapable OF NucH instruction. Inc money
side of this medical education is not the least
OF its benefits Skill VIII command It's sub
stantial reward whenever it FORCES to tho
front. \ ,klItUi physician Is, perhaps, the
best pal Of all the professions, because all
will Il man give for his life" If a woman can
rise 10 success III tine practice OF medicine.
who will gaInsay her right!
In my opinion the day Will come when Wo.
men Will be experts III the healing art, and
draw the pay prop"rtI'nate to the service.
Forty years ago woman clerk = Georgia
was as rare thing rs Darnum m'thematl-
cal pig. Today they q" the greater part OF
the work in ;m dry goods establishments in
the metropolitan cities, and are creeping into
tie stores OF our southern provincial towns.
II women must work theN should he p1ld Tor
Il. While they can h" sheltered, do 1t with
all the chi1alry and tcLacIm - they merit,
but when they are pressed into service by
hunger and want, DO, for PHYS sake, stop
twaddIing about their place at home, and
check the sneers that make the duty harder
and the work more unpalatable.
Talk about herol>m. There Is nothing com
iarable to the struggle OF delicate woman
with pure white soul, who is forced to work
outside because OF misfortune or the neglect
OF those ADLER to do it, especially when She
is made TO feel the contempt OF those women
who are better cared for. have 10 patience
with woman who will not give a word OF
cheer to her working sisters; and the day has
already come when woman's outside work
IppOlnA a hanpt9rtlnn ~ rs a
sity. Suppose the women in our churches
ShOuld decide TO hold their hands and S1v