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Women in r1edicine

The importance of the woman: NJ. d. is
becoming more and more apparent every
day. That there'ls afwidc field in medi
cine open to women of natural ability in.
this direction is also apparent, and it is
admitted that many women doctors are of
more practical helpfulness in sick room
than some Of the men.
At the corner of Livingston place and
East Fifteenth street the larger OF the
two medicalicolIeges for women In this
city is situated. This college. known as
The Woman's Medical College OF the
New York Infrmary, is one of the most
important of this country. The women's
medica.eolleges in Boston and Philadel-
pha, Aayeg been longer established, but
this aollege ii iSl point of nge, and
was ara6n sstn establish tha four-
years traded peaIse,,esRhich pntslit on a
level with the mems colleges As you
enter you find yourself in room full of
girls-gills of all ages and natonalities,
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News About Women

Mrs. Ellen Davis OF Niagara Fails leaves
an estate of $l25, 600, all made in keeping
a museum.
Mrs Lila Frost Sprague is the assistant
pastor Of the Second Unitarian church OF
San Francisco. She is'the wife of the pas
tor.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher is said to be
mbarrassed by lack of money enough to
enable her to live as she has been accus-
toned to.
Mrs. French Sheldon has severed her
connection with the monthly journal
called Africa. and declines to be identi
fed with it in any way.
Mrs. +. V. Cornelius of Philadelphia
has devised new way to be useful and to
make a living at the same time She is
professional marketer.'
Mrs. Henry Willard, who is daughter
of the late Hon. William Lloyd Garrison of
Boston. is living in Italy. Miss Garrison
married Mr.. Willard in the days when he
was struggling journalist.
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Menie rlurieI Dowie's Book

A strikingly original book that has
created much comment lin London is
from the pen, of Menie Mtriel Dowie, and
is called Gallia. 1t is published by the
J. B. Lippncott; Com pauy.
The first glimpse one gets of the heroine
is somewhat startling. 1t is Chapter VI.
Lady Hamesthwaite is discussing with
her step-sister. Mrs. Leightonu "a finely
drawn portrait) the subject of Gallia, and
the latter is saying: ~ think Gallia will
come home. My theory is that the
modern girl-has also a crop of wild oats
to SOW; not the.usua sort, of, course, but
wild oats, nevertheless. Perhaps she Will
have finished soon, and then you will see
Gallia will come home.,' -,
Gallia interrupts the confab at this
point and immerses herself in the daily
newspapers. Asked by. her elders whether
she finds anything of interest in the
prints. she replies that she is reading OF
the agitation about the state regulation
of vice." This startles the old ladies
like bombshell, and they, of course re.
monstrate with the'g girl. In the course of
the talk that ensues Gallia says:
''One likes to know the amount of one s
indebtedness to people. l. could not be
happy mean that could not have a
feeling of self-respect- unlesss L. had. esti-
mated just the amount OF my debt to that
class OF society which assures my class a
good deal of its immunity
& There was a terrible, sportentous pause
II think, dear if you knew how much
phrases OF that kind can hurt and distress
other women who have striven to play
their part of wife and mother well, you
would perhaps reserve them.
1t should be stated that while this book
treats of delicate subjects in frank man
ner there is not line which appeals to
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Hrs. Dan Lamont

Mrs. Lamont has quite an art gallery as
the result Of her skill with the camera.
Her choicest work, however, consists of
many pictures of her husband and chill
dren taken at home when the secretary
OF war has found himself in the bosom
OF his family and thrown aside care to en-
JOY the society of his little daughters.
These photographs cover number of
years, showing. the children from small
toddlers ;up'to their now more -dignified
age. Many of them Mrs. Lamont has had
enlarged and nothing would tempt her
to part with any of them, because they
never could be duplicated. and it is like
a pictured family history.
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dispensary, which is in the basement Of
the college building, is crowded every
morning from until noon with Door
women, most of them with babies, who
can get here the best medical advice and
treatment free. Fifteen or twenty doctors
hold clinics regularly, and are kept busy
all the time. There were 1900 new patients
last year who were visited in Their
homes, and over eight thousand calls were
made. The intirmary connected with
the college is next door on Livingston
place, and each year three students are
appointed from the graduating class to
serve there as doctors for year or more.
1t is evident that the woman doctor is
here to stay, Notwithstanding that most
men practitioners assert that there is no
place for women in the profession. There
are many families in the city who en-
ploy woman altogether for their family
physician. 1t was only the other day
that Mayor Strong appointed DIR. Anna
Williams member of the archaeological
board of health department. Charles
Dudley Warner in A Golden House, re-
Gently published by Harpers, draws
portrait of DR.. Ruth Leigh, who represents
more or less truthfully one OF the doc
tors from the Woman's Medical college.
She is only an example, however, of
many young women who are leaving COM
Portable and in many cases, luxurious
homes to give up their lives to the poor
of this great city. Some of these girls are
tired of society and wish to devote the
rest of their lives to charitable work, and
there is little romance behind the de-
termination of one or two, while sometof
them, against the wis cs of their FAM
lilies. have put aside the frivolities of
gay young girlhood and mean to spend
he rest of their days doing for others.
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girls pretty and ugly, strong minded and
masculine girls, and dainty, womanly
girls, who look as if they had been
brought up in the lap of luxury. But the
large.boned, specialized, short haired per-
son whom we are apt to unconsciously
associate with the woman doctor is al
most unknown there. These modern girl
medical students have found it possible
to be interested in the fashions and frivol-
tiles of the day and still have time to fit
themselves for their field Of work. and
they are helping their cause just as their
older sisters retarded it.
These girls are most OF them in jolly
mood, and laughing and chatting as if
care was an unknown enemy; but here
and there is serious looking senior, who,
now that commencement is near, begins
to feel the responsibility of her chosen
profession.
This college was founded thirty
years ago by Drs. Emily and Eliz-
abeth Blackwell, who are among the
pioneer women physicians of this coun-
try, and who accomplished their purpose
only after many. years of struggle and
trial The college has only been.in the
present building for five years, but is
already in SO prosperous condition that
the trustees hope to enlarge the size of
the building so as to accommodate the
rapidly increasing number Of students.
And do these girls faint when they go
into the dsssctng room? Not a bit of
it, 1t is one of the proudcst boasts Of the
students that not one of them has ever
/ oil, hos IS I,
rors on the fifth floor. But it isn't the
chamber Of horrors at all that is, when
YOU g t. used, to it. The room has two
large skylights covering nearly the entire
ceiling. and is surrounded on two sides
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and tuberculosis. The work done here is
microscopic largely, and many discoveries
may come from the information which is
cleaned in this unpretentious looking
room. Next comes the large amphitheater
where the operations are performed and
lectures are given by prominent physici-
ans. On the same floor is the physio log
ical laboratory. Still further downstairs
is the chemial laboratory, with its long
desks and rows upon rows of formidable
looking bottles Many hours are spent
here compromising horrible looking and
worse tasting drugs and medicines. Here
at noon the students bring their lunch
boxes for most of them live too far away
to enjoy the luxury of home luncheon,
and FIRST avenue restaurants pail on a
cultivated palate after a few weeks trial.
( 1t is only for the first two years that
much time is spent in these departments.
The last two years are mostly given up
to practical work in the infrmary and
connected with the college and
.in.visiting the sick at their homes. The
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saying, with smile. ".ieally, | have
never given the matter thought, SO /
cannot tell you whether the new woman
n eeds chaperon or not
Dr.. g. NJ. Crosby, one of the talented
members OF Soross, said: 9 think the
question will soon answer itself. Women
are every day proving themselves entirely
competent to take care of themselves.
Their entrance into the business and pro-
fessional field has done away with old
fashioned prejudices and Iollies.
The girl of today knows that ruined
name means ruined fortune, and she
prizes both too highly torun the Sigh test
risk of losing them. Never in the his
tory of the world have girls gone forth
into womanhood so well equipped to re-
sist temptation. Yet there is much
wickedness going on but the wineclp is
most responsible Tor it, Under the in
tucnce OF this. the great evil Of the age,
many life is ruined. But for sober
young woman of the nineteenth century
there is absolutely no need of chape
ron. - .r,nt
Mrs. Katherine Alderman Fay. one of
the Oldest members OF Sorosis, thinks
that the new woman Will SDufnS on al
save-like letters. This is her answer to
the question:
Girls are no longer ignorant Of the
world and Its ways. They read. study
and acquaint themselves with all of the
questions of the day. They meet. men as
equals. and not in the old fashion of re-
gariing the male sex as beings OF superior
mould. Women are reared to make a
place for themselves in the world. not to
bow down to a lord of creation, or else
starve. The new woman is proud + her
independence. and tits her best protector.
Her own sense Of right and wrong has
developed by being exercised, and she is
no longer a toy to be looked at and
played with. Why should she need a
,chaperop TO watch her when she has
been trained to be mentally and morally
strong? 1t is an insu t to think of it. - =
Mrs. Croly-Jennie June--the organizer
of Sorosis, the president Of the Woman S
Press Clup, and an officer or an honorary
member Of women s clubs all over the
world. should be and is an authority on
what is best for womankind. Spreading
of her. own girls. she said j. ......,.. ....
: iT They have been early taught to rely
upon them selves, and so should every wo-
man be reared. If they are sheltered
and shielded all their lives the training
will still be beneficial. and if they have to
make their way and earn their. place in
the great busy world they will be ena bled
to cope with and surmonnt difficulties
which would overpower a helpless, de-
pendent woman. . ~,
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the lower instincts of reader; indeed, its
appeal is to cold intellectually, and it
presupposes that this quality is to be
characteristic of the New Woman in Eng
land.
The Chicago Tribune's reviewer says
that i'll one respect Miss Dowies novel
may be described as a counterblast to
The Heavenly Twins, for there could not
be greater contrast than the healthy
naturalIsm OF Gaiia to the mawkish
idiocy of Evande. Here the man. with Il
past is not preached at, nor sternly out
lawed, nor wept over as brand to be
snatched from the burning. He is simply
subjected to gentle ridicule. process
most dvertlngly described by Miss Cal
las circle. Have you noticed what
passion men have for telling girls about
their pasts? Men are like chill
dren who have come home from the sea-
shore . They have to tell how
they padded, and Just how deep they
wentsin, and all about the queer things
they tished out. and about the crabs that
caught hold of their toes. 4. And
all the time you see how awfuily fright
ened at the crabs they have been. But
our little shoes were hanging around our
nccks, nGrs,y dear.-here she initiated
the small. high voice OF the self-conscious
good child-they say as they put them
on again. And see how clean we've kept
our overalls.' - There is the same agree
able mockery in Gallia's comprehensive
description of her sex. ''Ies, we have
proved there are three sorts of women:
the bad ones-to fan the fame of mems
vices red fame. that, for the sake Of
the picturesque; the good girls, to feed
the white flame of their virtues. and the
in-between girl who blows mel .hcr ire,
and can warm herself indifferently at
both" Theirs is much more in the same
vein, expressed with uncompronising
directness, and painful reading.
Throughout this book ara scattered It'd
bits of philosophy, which is not well
represented by few random extracts
"A mans most pleasing Inconsistency is
his earnest pity of an unfortunate. 1t
gives the good people hope OF his re-
demption; it assures tue average clear
headed people that there is no possible
hope of hers.
'GaIlia would have persisted in loving
him Ozark ESSEX even had she been con-
WINGED of his prighood. He was the first
man she had loved. and the first man is
never woman's free chnice. Like the
first fish OF the amateur trouter, he is an
accident; neither science, skill nor selec-
ton has hand in landing him. Some
times he is a handsome and credible acct
dent. have known the first man in
more than one case to be meritoriors
person -oftenest. though. he is q very
mean, small-tinned little accident. =
"A love tr 1uble. even when you love the
wrong person without havin. any bust
ness to, is Just as bitter as having 4 rela-
tive carried off by railway acc dent.
Things are not equally named. The
oppositencss of all names to the object
they describe is nothing like SO obvious
as the appositeness of the title pig foru
the animal pig; for. as thea old lady ye-V
marked, anybody could see Tor himselfsit
was pig.
There are subjects treated in the book
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truegled against evil fully as much as
any woman OF today. They were not
nonentities or ignorant as some of the
women of today assume when they talk
about'the new woman.
"Oh low the term displeases me! l
have no patience with the non-meaning
words. Woman today is just what she
was a hundred years ago, and as for. the
question whether she should have chap
eron or not. that is a difficult problem to
solve. Circumstances vary the decision.
Women brought up in the country do
not require the surveillance girls in the
city need. Il think where one is thrown.
in contact constantly with strangers that
she Is far more exposed than when assoei-
ated with people with whom she has grown
up. In cities | should recommend a
chaperon. ! think our schools teach the
young women to be frivolous and superb
cal they do not instruct the pupils thor
oughly in one thing, but hurry them
through number OF books which they
dinly remember Our public schools
have much to learn. They graduate the
children too young and overcrowd their
minds. Before girl is fully grown she
is turned out-as educated. Such q child.
uniformed in mind and body, GER
tanly requires the guidance of an older
person upon entering society,"
Mrs. Mary Z. Sangster, editor of Har-
per's Weekly. was busy at her desk when
stepped in and asked her about the new
woman and her need of chaperonage. She
laid down her pen and said: "You know
lam a very old.fashioned woman. and
of course would approve of the chaperon.
In fact, | dislike innovations on old GUS.
toms. think it is much pleasanter for
young woman to have some. older person
with her; it removes restraint. A sense
of greater freedom follows the fact that
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guardian is by to resent any misrepresen-
tation or careless word or action.
''Of course, in the country, where peo-
pie all know each other, the chaperor is
unnecessary. but in large cities where
one is thrown in contact with strangers,
especially the foreign element, think
girls require the chaperonage of an older
person. You can always count upon me
for believing in all the pioprieties.
i: Miss Grace Dodge had answered the
question yea or nay, it would have car
ried great weight with it. She is the
friend and contidante alike OF society
girls and girls who make their own Nv
ing. The good she has done for the WORK
ing girl in this great city will never be
known, but it is known that she has &C.
complished more for them than any So
ciety or association of women coliec-
lively.
b But she lid not answer the question
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ing and sleeping Gyldai would not have
been more amazed.
~ have seen SO much of it; such awful
mistakes; such horrible lives led under
the yoke of matrimony. Can make you
understand. | wonder? 1t is such gall
ing fetter, the matrimonial one; it kills
love and stiles sentiment. No man can
love to order; he never wants a surety.
Love will never bear the words you
SHALL it .shrinks under the grinding die
tum must If a woman loves me
want it to be in spite of everything. not
because it is her duty. I he moment a
woman had right to me | should hate
herr" t-.t ,..
d. Gylda shivered.
The publishers are Cassell & Co.
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. Miss Pendered's Book

The latest London literary sensation is
book by Miss Mary, L.. endered. en-
titled A. Pastoral, Played Out. Here is an
excerpt from one of the early scenes be-
tween its hero and heroine.
Bat; .Gylda stopped.
.Well?"' ~.
IF rant marry you?'
Cant your The distress in her voice
was obvious. Then she asked in whis-
per, with her lips to his neck: Why can
not your" =, x (
because -Ethcredge felthis strength
ebbing-" because. oh my sweetest. dear.
est grill I don't believe In marriage.
What"
II be had said, II don't. believe in eat.
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just as frankly as is that Of marriage; but
one has not thought necessary to digress
from the main thread of the story. There
are also pictures of English society that
are refreshing in their truth and in their
departure from the stereotyped forms.
The. only thing that menaces the popular
ity of Gallia is its striking originality.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-10-23
REPUBLICAN MASS MEETING.
Speeches by Geo. w. Murray, r
81. Richardson and Others.

The mass meeting of colored people adser-
tised for Saturday, brought to the city large
crowd of negroes. The brass band from
Rafting Creek came in TO furnish the music
Tor the occasion.
AT half-past twe.ve O'Clock :he band struck
rp tune at the corner of Main and Repuo-
lican streets The crowd soon gathered, AID
the band, speakers and people marched to the
cour, house square. Robin Richardson, Of
Wedge6eld, stepped to the front, and in a
pathetic tone of voice spoke for about Eve
minutes on 'sThe Unconstitutional Conven-
,ioo," and concluded by introducing Geo.
W. Murray. Murray spoke on the same line
of his former speecbes-''rbe abrogaton of
the liberties of his race'-aDd succeeded at
times ia en,husing his hearers.
The object of ,be meeting is to collect
money to push the registration cases now
pending in the supreme court. When the
speechmakine was finished, then the collec-
tion was taken, out ifMu:ray gets enough TO
pay for his bandoills, we don's know it.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-10-23
A Household Treasure.

D. W. Fuller, Of Canajoharie, \. T., says
tba. he always keeps Dr. King New Discovery
in the house and his family has always found
the very best resul,s follow its use tba, he would
not be without it, if procurable. 6, A. Dyke
man, Druggist. catskill, n T., says that Dr..
Kilg's New Discovery is undoubtedly the best
Cough remedy; that he has used it in his family
for eight years, and 1t has never failed to do all
that is claimed for It. Why not try remedy
so long tried aud tested. Trial bottles free at
J. F. w. LeLorme's Drug Store. Regular size
SOC. and Sl.o0.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-10-23
A Photograph Fraud.

RlDGEwAy, Oct. l5.-An imposter visited
our town to-day soliciting orders for enlarg-
ing pictures. He goes by the name of Harris,
and claimed be was W A Recklrg's agent.
HIS bargains induced several to place orders
aud pay dollar in advance. He receipted
for money as Reckling's Photo Co. He left
town, walking towards Winnsboro One of
the parties became suspicious, communics,.
ing with W. A. Reckline. The reply re-
suited in Harris being pursued and over'aken
nine miles north of Ridgeway and lodged 10
the guard house here to-ingbt. All the
MONEY and pictures have been refunded, and
be admits being an imposier.
The man above referred to operated in this
county few weeks ago. He duped the peo-
Pile of Rafting Greek township, and, when
leaving, took buggy and horse belonging
to Mr. T. O. Sanders, Jr., as far as Camden,
where he left it and took the train.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-10-23

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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-10-23
Between Hamlet and Sumter.

Secretary Duncan, of the railrond con-
mission, has received letter from General
Manager Kenly, of the Coast Line. In it he
says: "Afte. carefully considering the many
requests from the citizens along the line and
your two communications on the subject ve
bave decided to restore the passenger train
4eryice between aam'et and Sumter, making
connection at the latter point with orr trains
Nos So and So This train will be put in
service On the ls.h irs.ant aud will ruu daily
except Sunday This passenger train was
discontinued because it's operation was an-
profitable, and in restoring it trust the
citizens along the line will bear this fact in
mind and endeasor TO give it sufficient pat
ronage to at least pay its operating expenses :"