The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-01
WINTER DAYSIN BOSTON.
a DOCTOR WHO PLEAsFS TIE CON
sERVATORY GIRLS


NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY, BosroN.
Mass Jan. 2S.-The weather has been
redeeming itself lately. ana instead of fors
like blankets and damp days suffccatiugIv
warm we have had snow and ice and won
drous cold, clear, blue skies and DAYS both
beautiful and brilliant. l suppose half Of
Boston has been sleighing, skating and
tooogganlng, but have belonged to the
halt that staid, perforce, indoors and
rastled" with the grip. One reeds of the
prevailing influenza with a cheerful in
credulity until one takes it, or is taken una
wares by 1t. The real trouble is that II is
not one, but combination Of disorders eech
one quite sufficiently disagreeable alone Won
are certain that you are going to die of
consumption, brain fever and cerebro-
spinal meningitis. Your friends walk on
tlptoe and the doctor punches your ribs.
sounds your lungs, and you cough until YOU
are sure your diaphragm is 'wore 10 a
plum FRAGILE"
But you get we'll after awhile. and the
craving for salt pickles, lemons and green
apples SUBSIDIES aud you no longer turn
WIN Ioathlng from he bread and wate-
the tea and toast Of your healthier moments
am sure L don't know what we would do
without our doctor.
suppose you imagine to yourself stout.
benevolent old gentleman with round
glasses over his piercing eyes and father
~ manner covering a stern and scientific
determinations But you are wrong. AL
together wide of the mark.
Our doctor is woman.
NO matter how p"ejudiced you might be
on the burning subject of women doctors. y
nor now firmly your mind might be made
up on the question, your prejudices and
resolutions would dissolve in the most SUR
prlslng way should you be fortunate enough
to require the services of "our doctor.n
Upon seeing her you would never connect
with her the idea of medical course,
hospital experiences, surgical operations or
dlssectlng rooms. After knowing her YOU
would have living proof that there is moth
ing III the science Of medicine per SO, I'M
graspable by the mind feminine; that youth
rightly interpreted means energy and
enthusiasm, that blonde skin and blue eyes
mean health and magnetism, and that hands
that are delicate aud well manicured can be
firm and strong as well.
A physician cannot be successful who is
not up in the profession. Weak minds in
all worlds work 60 to the wal. Our
doctor has boen eminently successful in her
practice, therefore she must he eminently
anu
better still, they get we'll.
Commend to me a woman doctor" for
conscientiousness, quickness Of perception.
attention to details and sensitive appI &c a.
ton of the needs of her different cases.
When woman wins in any profession a
standing respected by the men of that probes
sion, you may rely on her capacity, Of
course one cannot judge of the army Of
woman physicians by a single representa-
tive and that one conservative to the last
degree in many things her confreres 70
claim most latitude in, but if she is real
and not unusual representative of profess
sional women then the conversion Of the
world is not far OFF.
ADVICE TO SOUTHERN WOMEN.
wish some of our strong, healthy, hand
some southern women would study medi-
cine. Which is worse-to be a trained
nurse or physician ''in good and regular
standingw Or rather, which is more hon
orable aud paying!
How much more satisfactory would such
profession be than the soul worrying
routine of typewriting or stenography, or
many of the halfway professions women of
the south as we'll as of the north are forced
into by necessity And if you think the
study Of medicine will make you less charm
ing or attractive, my sisters, l could whiper
you could find out for yourselves from OBJ
servatiCn aid experience that knowledge
Of bones and materi medica doesn't prevent
your gowns fitting your splendid figures, or
your bonnets adding lUster to your classic
brows and tying in deeply designing strings
under your pretty chius.
Hereafter these are the things that shall
be writ of in the history Of fascination. Nor
is there any valid objection to a woman
doctors" wearing a gown whose color and fit
shall be peculiarly soothing to the sick eyes.
AT cOntrdire, it shall hereafter be sst down
in the bylaws of the profession.
The command. "Amse, shake up thy bed
and walk" would be instantly sugy ested by
the sight of a physician coming IN with her
quiet, elastic step, the roses OF health and
keen air aboom in her face, her eyes spark
ling with intelligence and sym athy. She
takes a seat beside you and puts soft, cool
hand on your throbbing pulse, you smell
the violets nesting in the fur Of her
coat. She listens to your complaints
with professional interest aud
womanly sympathy, answering you with
that excellent thing in physician as well as
woman, a sweet low voice." You fall In
love with--life again.
What boon to a woman would such
physician friend be; one TO whom she could
open her heart and in whom she could con-
fde without any dfrtere penSee, could any
other physician be half as comforting to lit
tie children and suffering mites of humanity,
to whom the woman heart always goes out
in desire to aid and relieve! II this be
heresay make the worst OF it.
The papers are joking about the way the
Rostonese would scamper to the White
mountains in the event of war with Chile.
Let US pray for peace, with Miss Willard
and Mrs. E. S. p. Ward.
The first screaming shell from the CAPTAIN
Pratt or the Pinto would probably land right
on top of the conservatory, we are so near
the harbor, and not a state in the United
States would escaped Besides. men are
scarce enough, goodness knows, in this part
of ths world at the present writing, and
another war would leave the woman suf-
frage committee in undisputed possession Of
ballot-boxes and any thing else they might
take a fancy to. However, not all the
women of New England are members Of the
womans suffrage committee, and the idea
of such desolation would be appalling to
them. While there is life there Is hope!
don't think anybody has been spelling
for a fight" except the President and I'M
tried veterans of the navy. Nobody In the
n. +. {. is. The students are cJsmoooh-
tan and peaceaule, and the faculty are not
in favor of CONSUMPTION. We prefer TO
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