The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-19
THE HEN medic.
Characteristics by Which
the Girl of Medicine
Can be Distin-
guished.
A HEE0NABlE AND 10 ABLE CREATURE.
Whom Men Admire, but are Just
u b9nlL
a Little Afraid ef@The
Modern Model.
| EEG0NABLE AND 10 ABLE CREATURE.

Ten to one the reader doesn't even
know what u Hen Medic is. Well, she
isn't a woman doctor just yet, but she's
going to be.
1t is difficult to describe her so that one
an tell who she is at the first glance, for
she looks wonderfully like any Other
bright, earnest girl; but a few truths
about her may not come aniss.
To begin, she may or may not wear her
hair short. AS the Irishman said:-"Some
does-more DON'T" But If it is short, 1t
is safe to say that it is rrettily curled
close to her shapely little head. and it is
apt to be brushed back from her smooth
white forehead.
In the matter of dress she is reasonable
and conservative. Something neat and
stylish. but running to neither extreme.
OVERRIDING is one extreme, tight facing is
the other, she Will tell you with a wise
look.
She has discarded ~corsets, to be sure,
but that would never be known from the
fit of her gown! Her hats are neat and
inclined q little to jluntiness, and she at
fects jackets with pockets on the sides;
To tell the truth, she rather likes to stand
IDOL the street cars to let the people see
that she hasi't o "back;" aud one notices
that the hand that holds the strap is we'll
gloved. She's a co~mpanlpnable creature
withal, and will tell you 8bout the most
interesting operations she has witnessed,
all in the same breath with a description
of a s'sweet gown" she's having made,
and al ACCOUNT OF the play Whlcn she saw
the other night
Dissec:ing isn'tthe ~pleasantest task IN
the world, and she Is frank enough to
own tha she doesn't like 1t. The sub
ject'' is gruesome at best: and it may pc
that she feels at first sight that she would
like to scream run away; but she
doesn't.
She may have to be carried out once or
twice-her brother, the Rooster" Medici,
has had that experience at times himself
but she is up aud at 1t again in no time
at all, and soon her soft taper fingers are
slashing through the tissues.
She does her work conscientiously and
well. She fishes daintily around for the
end of u nerve or a tendon, aud although
she handles it u bit gingerly. to be sure,
she hangs on to it tightly all the same, and
she gets the bearings OF that particular
nerve so that she remembers ever after
ward.
She studies hard and Understandings,
and her examination papers are neat COM
pendiums of medical knowledge. While
she learns Just how thick to mix a mus
ldIu DluSt0lk " 1'ttAJ
eggs to put In a cake; and her knowledge
of the manner of stitching uD a wound
doesn't interfere with her learning the
very latest stitch III embroidery.
She does not have "a mute time to
practice, yet you will find that she knows
all the new airs, and she can tell you just
how the trouble started in Chile and what
ought to be done about it. Ii there is u
rubber at whist and the table is one short,
she can take a hand aud play il with such
mingled luck and skill tnat you would
much prefer to be her partner than her
opponent. ;
AS "a matter Of fact, one secretly leans
toward q life partnership with this little
Hen Medic, but is half afraid of her be-
cause she knows SO much. But DESPITE
her knowledge she has Il heart as tender
and true as that of the most innocent lit
tie maiden. and. If that is won her hand
goes with it. Aud once she's won. 1t is
forever, aud aye. through thick aud thin,
and her Materia Medica and her Essen
tials of Anatomy will 40 up on the high
est shelf of her closet, and her practice
will be confined to you aud the children
of the poor of the neigbborhood.
This girl now bow "the boys" regard
her and she laughs at 1T and 1t doesn't
hurt her a bit. Now, 1T may be that the
women who first got this were
not OF the same make. They may have
worn smooth hair and spect cles, and
talked through their noses and gene
about i'll dragged gowns. But If that
was the case that sort of people are back
numbers now, and the girl the men toast