Morning journal and courier., 1893-01-07
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some of Its Facts and Fancfes.
Written for the JOURNAL. AND COURIER.

Some of ITS Facts and Fanctes.
Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l
NEW OCCUPATION FOR WOMEN.
One occupation in which self-supporting
women do not have to compete with an
army OF underpaid workers is that of pre-
scription clerk in q drug store. A regular
ly licensed woman pharmacist of Brook
lyn, speaking from the experience of some
years, Gays that "the work is of kind Pc
culiarly fitted to women, the delicate
weighing, the accurate measuring, the
great caution demanded, the seriousness
of even small mistakes, and above all the
neatness and order required in the prepsrs
tion of medicines, the making of tinctures,
the compounding of pills, are all most de-
cidedly within woman's province" 1t is a
kind of work that requires undivided at
tention, and the strictest csrefnlness in ev
cry detail, but to many women just suoh
work is agreeable, and the feeling of re-
sponsibility only gives it an added in
terest.
This one young woman is said by her
employer to be the most capable, conscien-
to secure during the thirty years he has
been engaged in the drug business. He
would feel perfectly free to leave his bust
ness for year, knowing that no mistakes
would be made during his absence, and
that every detail of the work would be
faithfully supervised. This is a worthy
record, but there are hundreds capable of
making one equally good, in the same bust
ness, with the same opportunities for study
and practice.
Looking the country over, We find that
there are quite number of women who
are licensed druggists, prescription clerks
and druggists assistants. Looking ct the
magnitude of the business, we find it
wide field for women wage-earDers, and
one into which they have scarcely pene-
trated.
Women have for some years been sd-
mitted to schools of pharmacy, but few
have taken advantage of the opportunity,
probably because of the difficulty of OBJ
tanning the four years practical experience
without which adiploma cannot be granted.
Women students, however, stand well in
their classes. In the New York school,
where of more than one hundred only thir-
teen receive honorable mention for high
standing in examination, one woman ranks
among the fortunate ones. In the Brook
lyn school the one young woman in the
senior class of thirty-fve men, is
| winning honors. and has been chosen
as valedictorian. AS a rule, there is a
| smaller percentage of failures among
women students and a higher average in
| the standing. The course of study in the
| schools requires but two years, and only
| the afternoons are spent at the college,
thus giving opportunity the rest of the day
/ for the needed practical experience. The
| Brooklyn senior student already mentioned
| has a place in a pharmacy where she is
busy mornings and evenings, and Is con-
sidered very quick, skillful and reliable.
| If one can give the time it would not be
necessary to be 30 constantly employed, as
| two years course can be taken at the
school, graduating without diploma,
which ia given after four years experiences
in pharmacy. 1t Is probably this long
course of study and work that prevents
| mapy Young women from entering upon
| this profession; then, too, there are the
long hours, and the Sunday work, but the
duties are not 30 onerous as those of the
woman physician, or nurse, and in much
the same honorable line of employment.
The woman prescription clerk may be An
"innovation," but since she is proving an
unqualified success, the more thoughtful
earnest and painstsking women assume
the responsibilities of the profession, the
less we shall fear the innovation and will
welcome them to a new line of work IL
which all their faithfulness, deft-handec
neatness and readiness in emergencies viii
be appreciated as well as required.
THE WHISPERING Lutte.
| Der David's couch as old tradition says
| There hung lutte, tuned ever to Gods praise,
| And when, upon the passing OF the night,
The soft wind whispered toward the gates o
The lutte filled all the chamber of the king
| With its melodious murmuring.
Then woke the royal singer, and with head
Half raised as IL he heard an angel tread,
Listened, until, his poet soul on fire,
| He caught with eager, yearning hands the Tyr,
And sang the songs the worlds heart sing
!. Inspired outpourings of the souls of.men.
So, DER our heads, new-dawning truth abroad
The whispering lutes sing sweeter thoughts {
O poet, whom the world has waited long,
q Come, smite the murmuring harp strings cle'
: Come thou new seer, who shalt rise, and sing
+ This day 3 evangel Of thy God and King!
james Buckham.
YOUTHFUL BARD.
OF the young Scotch poet, Willia
Thomson, 1t has been said that "althoue
!, he had produced nothing more than TT
Master and the BARNS, and his other bs
lads, he has written that which his countr
g men will one day assuredly come to kno'
10 and continue to admire while skylarl
n aing, blusbells nod, and the bonnie purr
A. heather bloomatn the Land of Song"