Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-08-01
THE AGE OF SPECIALISTS.
Excelling in One Branch-wil the Family
Physician Disappear
From the Brooklyn Eagle

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Nobody can have failed to notice the tendency
to specialize which has developed during the
last decade. The doctor makes a careful study
of one part of the body: The servant assumes
charge of one department of the household and
absolutely refuses to have anything whatever
to do with the rest of the menage. The me-
chanic decides upon what part Of the business
he will spend his energies, and the most
urgent need OF extra hands in another depart
ment does not induce him to offer his assist
anee, although he may be acquainted with
that branch of the trade as well as his own
specially.
At the dressmaker's one woman tries on the
skirt, drapes and arranges it. finishes and
leaves the room before dong before) the cor
sage filter appears. But you, of course have
noticed that although the second madame"
Is and refits all the rest of the bodice vet she
does not touch the sleeves. That important
task Is Tor still another. SO that there are three
filters TO be waited for instead Of one, as for
merry. Naturally the gown that is produced
by these specialists is a work OF art as compared
with that worn by our grandmothers, but there
is an endless amount of time lost by this spe-
cializing which we could hardly say makes the
women OF today more attractive than those
whom our grandfathers courted.
In oldcn days a carpenter could build
changed. Every man who has been through
the ordeal of building or repairing a house
knows what it means to have the foreman an
swer to his question as to why everything is
standing still by the statement that 1.-THE man
who should bring the doors was Ill TODAY and
so nothing could proceed" Yes the door spe-
cialis is ill, and SO the floor specialist and the
window specialist can do nothing. All this hap
pens because the factories where wood is
worked find it 80 advantageous to turn out but
one article.
OF course We do not fail to realize the fact
that our drawing room would look immacula
instead OF just simply clean il We could afford
to keep parlor maid. for does not Mary de-
clare that lit is shurly not the waitrusses place
to be fixin' the parler." 1t is the same with the
cook, who says that she was not hired to pare
vegetables, but to cook, and that a scuflery
| maid is an absolute necessity. And lust az
soon as Sunday is safely passed, she is ready
| with her usual complaint that she lis not used
to cooking and washing both" although nurse
always arranges the luncheon on Monday and
tuesday. Long ago, when one maid with q
| little assistance could do oil the homework. a
man could afford to marry but in these disas-
trous days OF specializing, he too, must
| specialize and be nothing but bachelor"
1t VIII not be many years before family
| physician will be thing of the past. Your
boy will some day be brought home with a
| broken arm. You will think immediately of
the surgeon who lives but o few blocks away
He'as hurriedly summoned. As he enters the
room he Will look at the patient and exclam:
.'Oh. it is the arm that Is broken. could not
think OF having anything to do with that. I
am leg specialist. You must send for Dr.
Brown. He sets arms" 1t will be some COM
fort while You 81 waiting patiently CD for DIR.
Brown to know that an arm specialist is going
| to mend your boys broken arm. Some comfort,
| yes, but mighty cold comfort
All the trouble and complication that has
arisen from over specializing will, there is no
doubt, straighten itself. The system of spe-
clalizing Is something new, and it is not en-
tirely understood. 1t will probably be per-
fected and made thoroughly useful and i'm
portant factor OF our civilization, but we may
say almost with certainty that specializing ex-
lists today to as great an extent as it ever will