Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-11

lege, who has served her term in the
Philadelphia Hospital, has been appointed
assistant medical inspector to the Bureau
of Health. DR.. Frances Van Gasken
passed the two civil service examinations
with distinction, she possesses the regulate
medical knowledge, and is ambitious to
show how well woman can serve great
interests. It Is thought that woman may
be admitted to houses under conditions
where q mans presence might be resented,
or possibly, his investigations impeded.
The following seem odd employments
for women to be engaged In, but the ques-
ton of ability, and not of eek, seems to
have been considered In making the sp-
pointments:
Miss win Allen Dromgoole, the author,
has served for eight years as clerk of the
Senate of Tennessee, with great credit to
Florida gathering material for q serial
story which has been engaged by the
Youths Companion.
Mrs. Mary A. Anderson has been elected
assistant sergeant-at-arms to the Arkansas
House of Representatives, winning this
position over twenty other candidates who
were of the male s'persussion." A real
''lady President" }" is Mrs. Annie Moore of
Mount Pleasant, Texas. She is also the
youngest bank president In the country,
distinction which is subject to change.
The bank was at first private concern
with Mrs. Moore at the head, where she
proved herself 80 able q fnancier that
when the bank was incorporated as Ma
tional bank she was elected as its president
by q unanimous vote.
WALL OF LONG AGO.
The masculine protest, voiced in public
and private, against the wearing of large
hats In theaters and in all audiences where
sight Is as essential to entire enjoyment as
hearing, is not matter of these later days
alone. 1t is an echo that rings down the
ages; at longer or shorter intervals 1t gath
ers strength and volume; then 1t dies away
and there Is only a distant mutteriDg. It
must always have been SO since women
wore hats, it will ever be 80, and the
growls will be vigorous or feeble, as the
hat WAKES or wanes-as the feathers or
rose-bushes stand aggressively erect or lie
prone and dropping.
Even the comments of the prsss; the ap-
peal of the sufferer who gains some con-
ISOLATION from reading his own oommunica
tions on the subject in the columns of his
favorite newspaper, have not whit of
uOV6lby III Iu6lus nero is u pEOlccL mulCh
was printed in the New York Mirror of
February 10, 1882. Sixty-two years ago
this was written aud printed, and 1t prob
ably was Just as Intellectual as are all the
criticiems and comments of 1898:
"The womenl They come to the thester
with hats on their heads big enough to
overshadow a little German principality.
Nobody that has the misfortune to sit be-
hind one of these need ever expect to see
the stage, or, indeed, anything but feathers
aud bows and unpronouncesble fripperies.
If they would only keep this prodigious
ooncstenation of incongruous matter still,
it would be something; ono might oc-
cssionally get peep by moving from side
to side, or dodging under the disk of the
prodigious luminary. But this seems
quite impossible-the majestic object is
in motion-shsking, and nidg-
ing, and nodding this way and that, SO
that all attempts to avoid 1t are as futile as
those of some unfortunate mariner trying
TO get round Cape Hatteras in q gale. I |
have such trials of skill with these hats as |
would amaze you, but all in vain. They |
form q perpetual screen between me and |
The stage, of which have not had a full |
view since the invention of these unbecom- |
Ing, unladylike appsndages.
LAURENCE LONESOME"
As for large hats being "unbecoming"
every one knows that that statement is too /
sweeping and could not be proved, but |
they may be said to be too "unladylike" /
when they interfere with the comfort and |
pleasure of other psople. There can be
no objection made to the little bonnet,
which is usually becoming and ladylike,
since 1t does not add greatly to the natural
size of the head. But possibly when /
women obtain all their "rfohts - the same
unwritten law that compsls o man to doff
his headgear when entering a room will be
upon them also, and in all audi
ence rooms men and women alike will cit /
with uncovered heads. Then, and only
then, will the wailing of sggrieved Man
die away like the echo of sigh-that is,
the wall anent this particular annoyance. |
There'n bs sure to be something else to
worry him. HILARY.