The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-09-23

ing or manner. and he has never had
cial life of New York. For some reason
or other. however, the public has decid-
ed that Mr.. Barrowe is a bowling swell,
OF decidedly heavy type. and he is
treated with unusual distinction on that
account. one of the most emphatic
stories that has recently been told about
him details the fact that he has been
cut by the Jays, the Vanderbits. the
Beemans and the Whitneys. though he
was once the pride and delight of their
set. The spectacle of heavy and log
gy Mr.. Borrowe. who has for years
spent most of his time in small back
room OF a cafe near Eighteenth street;
posing as a dethrOned pet of the families
above named must be rather startling
to the Jays, Vanderbilts. Beekmaus and
Whitneys.
There are ups and downs among news
paper celebrities. after all. Mrs. Coleman
Drayton. as she usually appears in the
daily papers. is a dashing and attractive
figure. In some of the photographs she
looks as though she might be nearly forty
years of age. while in others she lounges
against a palm, or leans over window,
wit a fluffy bang surrounding her face.
and with the appearance of "A girl of eish-
teen. The most popular photograph OF
Mrs. Drayton exhibits that lady in
check gown, with small walking hat
perched over her curls and an air of
pleased and childish delight on her
chubby features. 1t was taken precisely
twenty years ago, but that Is a mere
detail as far as newspaper portraiture
is concerned. Mrs. Drayton for nearly
year has been engaged in an unsUccess-
full effort to reduce her weight. She Is
dedided stout, and most people would
unhesitatingly call her fat"
a woman who would be a physician
must be a good student OF human nature;
she must be firm, self-reliant, courageous,
and fertile Of eNpedient. She must be n
superior woman. by this | do not mean
airs. On the contrary, it is an advantage
in the long run, TO be possessed of un-
assuming manners. But she must be SUI
perior to the small foIDes OF her sex.
Her education and knowledge will gem
orally divest her Of these. She must
not project her personality too strongly
in the sick room. She must be ever
ready to listen to the plants of the sick
one while She gives back none in return.
The element OF strength she must carry
with her always. The weak, the suffer-
ing, the misguided aud sinful ones must
feel that they can lay upon her their
burdens, and know only that their dis
tressed hearts and bodies are relieved.
Her own heart may be breaking, but she
must not show II. Her body must be
weary unto exhaustion but she
must be just as Wiling to wait patiently.
to work cheerfully, to minister hOrt and
courage and give no sign. The attitude
of patient and doctor is on the one hand,
that OF asking, and, on the other, that
Of giving.
Miss Frances willard repudiates the
attitude attributed To her on the blOomer
question . Lady Somerset and / both
believe" she says, that we need such
reform in the dress Of women as VIII
make it more comfortable to reason,
but we neither of US have ever advocated
boomers. and on aesthetic grounds must
oppose them. My own bicycle costume
is simple street dress, with the SKIRT
shortened so that il clears the ground.
A.. hax~ mott ha~ of nc aNa g1Nne.fD
boomers. but we both believe that the
taste and skin Of artistic modistes Will
yet evolve a costume for the blcyClistS
that shall meet the conditions OF utility.
comfort and that third condition when
we consider especially important
beauty"
According to recent statistics, there are
about 2.OOD women practlclnS medicine
on the continent of North America, or
whom l3J are hOmeopathists. The major
ity are ordinary practitioners. but among
the remainder are seventy hospital physl-
clans or surgeons. nInety-slX professors IN
the schools go specialists for the as
eases Of women. seventy alienlsts, sixty
five orthopcdsts, forty ocullSts ana Au-
rists and finally. thirty electro thera-
peutists. In Canada there IS but one
medical school exclusively devoted 10 the
training of medical women, but in the
United States. in lSR. there were ten,
one OF them being homeopathic estab-
lishment.
There is in Redditch, somewhere In
England, a celebrated needle factory,
which is said TO have presented TO Queen
Victoria most wonderful specimen OF
the skilled labor 1t employs. 1t Is
needle copying. in miniature. the column
Of Trojan. Upon this restricted surface
various scenes from the Queens life were
cut with such exquisite fne1esS that
they are only to be discerned through
MICROSCOPE.
IL requires credulity which can very
easily he disccrned without the all OF
MICROSCOPE to credit this description
but it reads prcttily.
II is said that owing TO the close inter
marrying of the Rotchschilds there Is no
one of the rising generation Of the am
ily who is considered capable OF succeed
iu., 10 the management of the vast wealth
nov controlled by this house, whose
total fortune is estimated as being over
50 0O1 900 600 the Paris RotchSohiidS alone
being set down at S3JO,V0GD, Of when
Baron Alfonso. the head Of the French
branch. Is credited with $2OOCo,plJ rms
enormous fortune, If 1t goes on lncreas,
ing at the same ratio as hitherto, VIII
1ouble every fifteen years, and 1t IS APP
Mailing to think of the sum to when III
would amount a century hence. lnder
the circumstances. the blight upon the
Younger generation Of RothscL----S must
no ra0o rGrd i'm the light of a wise dlSpen-