Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-02-28

Or, Frances Dickinson comes of good
Quaker stock. and those who know her best say
that she is n born organizer. She represents in
striking way the remarkable progress made
by women during the last two decades
in the field Of specialists. She has
the distinction of being the only woman
oculist in Chicago, and was the first woman
member of the International Medical Congress
which met in this city three years ago. two mile
posts In womau's history of the present era.
These deserved successes have no. come with
out effort She was born in Chicago, began
her medical training there and finished it and
graduated from the best schools in Berlin.
She was abroad fourteen months. She
has now lucrative Office practice and
every one Of the 100 women doctors
in Chicago send their patients to her for eye
treatment. DR.. Dickinson has done more than
any one else to break down the barriers which
existed between the women doctors of all the
different schools and has been foremost in
founding sanitary association composed of all
OF them. which has been the means of recon-
Cling their conflicting interests and advancing
in every way their individual success.
In appearance Dr.. Dickinson is slight and
delicate looking, but her reserve force and
strength is typitied in her high, broad forehead
over which her thick brown hair is smoothly
parted, and frames a face in iicative Of quiet
earnestness and indisputable intelligence and
industry. She wears gold bowed glasses herself
and her talent in fitting others to the same
heiPs Is widespread IN chicago ana Hyue Park-
DIR. LUCY WAITE.
A no less interesting woman is DR.. Lucy
Waite. the vice president of the Chicago con-
gressionai district o; the association as well rs
secretary of the local committee of the medi-
cal department DIR. Waite is daughter of
ex-JudGe Waite and Mrs. &. V. Waite of Chi
cago. she inherits all their business qualifica-
tons and, as young as she is, has attained
such success in her chosen profession
and has such high standard that
she yet hopes to reach that she
would excite ambition in anybody. DIR. Waite
Isl graduate of the Chicago University and
Medical College. She spent two years after
that In Vienna and Paris completing the study
OF her OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and gynecology-
to which her practice is largely limited. She
has large consulting practice with the
women doctors OF all the medical schools,
and she says. because she does not adhere to
any OF the other schools, she must belong to the
allopaths. The practice of medicine does not
nll her ultimate ideal. She is now studying
law and her ambition is sooner of later to enter
the field of medical Jurisprudence. Dr. Waite
Is as bright socially she il intellectually and
her scheme of life means honest. hard, practi-
cal work, a hatred of shams and above all to
incite laudable ambitions by healthy organiza-
tons among womenkind.
DIR. Waite and DR.. Dickinson live together in
a fiat at Hyde Park, where each has an office
with all its professional surroundings combined
with a cheerful domestic life that can be easily
guessed just by looking at them. They each
keep an office in Chicago and the Queen Isabella
Association has two workers in them who are
willing to sacrifice time and money toward its
success.