The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28

women have often surpassed the best Of
men in every line OF the profession.
They are pushing their conquest INT to
every corner Of the United States and
the moial standard of the profession both
in fielus OF practice and in colleges.
The fact is no longer disputed though
IL was not conceded without a struggle
that the advent OF women into labors to-
ries and lecture rooms OF our medical col
leees have done much to eliminate the
roughness which once prevailed and this
has not been done at the expense OF the
purity and finer sensibilities OF the
woman. That women are not possessed
OF less power to grasp and connect than
men may be proven by the class records
OF our co-educational colleges. Their re-
citations show that they have as Keen
perception and understanding OF the sub
jects as their more generously endowed
brothers. the professors call upon the
women to do difficult piece of work
which requires nicely and precision more
often than upon men. Nature itself
has endowed women with attributes
and though We grant that she may lack
some fine qualities which men possess we
maintain that they are not the qualities
required to make u skillful physician.
The mission OF woman permitted to
bruise
The head OF the serpent and sweetly In
Through the sorrows and sins of earth's
registered curse
The blessing which mitigatss all.
Borne to nurse
And to soothe and to soiace, to help and
to heal
The sick world which leans on her."
+: The professional woman need not, as
many fear she must, divest herself OF her
wotnanly diG:ity and finer feelings. The
expression We have often heard that she
must foraet she is a woman Is not true.
Indeed this 10 one thing which woman
IN any condition OF life must never lose
sight OF. Masculine Characteristics OF dress
or manner are not incident to the profess
sion and if these qualit es grow 1t Is the
woman herself who cultivates them and
not the D 'ofss on.
Tho life of the woman physician can be
as retired as that of any other class of
women who work. She deals entirely
with individuals and chiefly with her
10 be seen and heard and to impress PEG
pie with O sense of their importance
would be blatants in any position OF life.
There are many women who have
greater responsibilities resting upon
them than men. They are often oompsll-
many others. If the professions be closed
to them there is no other avenue opel to
thsm but mental service and it would
take a greater logicisn than has ever yet
been evolved to prove that the duties of
a physician tax her slender strength or
shock her sensibilities more than scrub
Ding and washing delegated to her as her
share of the worlds labor. 1T Is true
that in ''trampli3g the world" she may
feel its sung" most keenly. 1t would
probably be a great deal easier fOf most
women as we'll as men to sit calmly down
and enjoy all that ''siRht and sense
reveal" instead OF making great effort ;
but mans chief end is not to enjoy and
the heart OF man replies, leave happiness
for brutes, l would oe wise" TO obey the
call of duty means sacrifice. If woman
IS compelled to enter the lists in the
worlds struggles with The odds against
her she sh Juld OF least be given all the
advantages which the situation affords
that her task may be as easy as possible.
The professional education can never I'M
tit a woman for any sphere in which she
NAV be pinced, ON the other hand pos
ssssed of greater power she is master OF
many situations where she would 9TH
erwiie be helpless. III love or duty calls
her out into other fields shs stands upon
the rlane of the educated woman in the
home. Her wider experience and trained
intellectenables her to grasp bigger
thoughts. She is capable of eliminating
the trivial things and small frivolities
and filling out her time with things OF
greater moment.
derlies the foundation OF human progress
and is enabled by the very qua tiles
which are said to unit her for wife and
mother, - develop the divine powers of
her children's mind ami bodies. And to
her husband she may be what every man
most needs-an intellectual companion
and helper.
mr. EMA pIITITN