The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-20

their eminent success to quote Presi-
! dent James Angel, of Ann Arbor uni
versity.
ENCOURAGED BY THE MISSION
ARIES.
The two young women, Ida Kahn and
Meiyii, or Mary Stone, as her name has
been Anglicized, were graduated June
last from the department of medicine
and surgery of Ann Arbor university.
They then spent two months in further
pursuing their studies at hospitals, and
the last of August sailed for the far
east.
Their home is Kinkiang, on the
Yangtse river. Miss Charlotte Howe, a
missionary at that port, became much
interested in these two young women,
who came under her instruction and in
f1uence while in China, and when she
returned to this country about four
years ago, they accompanied her. They
had become imbued with the mission
airy spirit and, young as they were
then, the one H. the other a little older,
the noblest career seemed that of being
able to minister 70 those of their own
sex who were physically afflicted In
time their services will be required
without doubt by high caste ladies and
those in the zanana and harem. But
medical missionaries.
WORK AT THE UNIVERSITY.
So thorough had been their instruc
ton in English as we'll as other studies,
obtained from schools established in
Kinkiang by the missionaries, that
when they entered the university at
Ann Arbor both aspirants successfully
passed the examinations necessary for
/ 10 II, 0Ia of
surgery.
This examination required AN English
essay. correct in spelling, punctuation,
capital letters, grammar and para
graphing; mathematics (arithmetac, al
zebra and geometry; physics, zoology,
history and Latin. They speak Eng
lisn admirably, with just the soupcon
of an accent, which is fascinating, and
they write charming letters, which are
absolutely correct, in every particular,
expressed perfectly and written in a
neat, clear hand.
1t is needless to say that the four
years course in the medical department
required incessant and hard work. AT
Ann Arbor university the course of in
struction for women is in all respects
equal no that for men; they have the
same advantage in respect to lectures
public clinics and work in the several
laboratories There are lectures and
recifatfons in osteology, embryology
histology: operative, minor and general
surgery practical pathology, Internal
medicine and deImatology and all those
other frigintfully hard things the study
of any one of which is quite enough to
turn ones brain
A THOROUGH COURSE
But nothing daunted these brave
girls from the fioWery kingdom. They
took up every study in its turn and
went in for bacteriology, which in
cludes the chemical and meteorological
examinations of food, water, soil and
ain ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS also came in
for share of attention, and they be-
came initiated in the mysteries of bat
te1-ies. induction coils, electrodes and
other appliances, and they also went in
for experiments in electrophysics and
observation-disclosures. In regard TO more
practical things they had charge of pa
TENTS in the hospital connected with
the university, where they were re-
uuired to make diagnoses, prescribe,
dress wounds and perform minor oper-
ationS under the direction of the pro
fessor in charge
With all this rush of work, they
found time to take advantage of the
facilities for physical culture and usu-
ally devoted several hours each week
to work with dumb bells and Indian
clubs They were members of the
Choral union, which is an organization
OF students for the study and practice
I of choral music and for the promotion
of general musical culture.
Both girls were great favorites with
their class, and highly esteemed by the
] faculty. One was made secretary of the
( class. which, by the way, numbered
4 fifty-eight, of which fourteen were
! girls. All were Americans, with these
two exceptions and one youth from the
West Indies.
COLLEGE LIFE.
The charming oriental garb in which
| Drs. Ida. Kahn and Meiyii SHE appear
| in the ACCOMMODATING illustration, was