The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-02

than " mnet men, end. n most easea
they zW1H speedily heak an<Et me apportln<
IT,. MOI sonlyfs tfis time In the cffies,
but ssven In county 8nwns, where con-
servattsm and .nre31dice finger FAR longer,
women doctors have been now to build
themselves UP q good practice. sooner
than rhefr masculine rivals.
There is something about sickness which
calls peculiarly for a woman. This was
recognized tn the hackneyed hines where
In Scott called her q '.ministering angel"
and was for a long time supposed to de
note that che was to be the nurse OF the
III. In spite of the bitter opposition she
has proven that she is most capable of
more than that-of doing all the work Of
the diseases curing most ~acceptably.
The late DIR. .Clemence Lezier of New
York who was one of the first feminine
physicians in this country, used TO tell,
with hinshes rising ito her face, as she re-!
membered them, of heshorrible abuse and
insults that were heaped upon her head
and a more retiring, thoroughly modest
little woman sneve observation-disclosures,
when left to earn her living, h decided
that 1t Should be by the practice of meai-
cine. We have changed all that, or at
least much Of hi antagenLsm has been
dissipated by the experience which has
shown chat women did not unsex them
selves by doing This, or any other work,
II they did 1T In the right way. That vet
enan doctor and genial social critic, Oliver.
Wepdell Holmes. said publicly, not long
bafore he died. that he quite approved of
women doctors when they manifested thu
rather rare requisite traits for the ardu-
Gus calling. Now Is the stime for them to
undertake It, before It s altogether con-
stdered a matter-of-course, as is school
seaching, and when opposition ISIS slight
as to fatard oness progress very ltetle.
This train of thought was brought to
the eurface, in the writer's mind, by no.
ticing from several different sources, end.
as 1t happened, from different parts OF
the country how emy doctor in a,
friends conversation turned out so often
40 be a woman, and the remarkable and
swift growth of a practice. unde unusu-
ally disadvantageeus circumstances, by
more than one woman doctor. One girl
went to New York six years ago with
mo influential i~ntroductions, and little
money to fall back upon. she has had
three severe fits pef illness to hold her
back, and YET, today, she has q hospital
appointment, a fine office we'll situated
and q large practice. Isn't she an en-
couragement to others?
The fashion for trimmed skirts seems
to be gaining avor very rapidly, and the
a1ressmalxers assure you with great con-
sfdence that they have come to stay. One
of Worth's latest gems in cloth is trimmed
round the skirt to the knee with two-inch:
bias sbarfas of velvet In q contrasting col
Yor, and an inch and a half space between
each one. Other skirts are trimmed
downward from the top ITO the knee with
rows of braid or velvet set around so that
they are a little lower in front than at
the back. For those who are not tall
senongh to bear this mode of decoration
the bands are put in the seams from the
waist half way down or up from the bot
tom. and a pretty effect Is made with
braid In two widths, the wider in the CEN
tire, making three rows on each seam.
finished with a long trefoil at the end.
In talking with an American about the
dfHerent conditions of women in Japan
and the United States "a Japanese sdiplo-i
mat once said:-eWhen ] marry I fake a
head servant; when you marry you be-
come aone.s' "a man who recently visited
Japan quotes ia remark in a somewhat
similar vein made by a Japanese inter
prater. Il Sat one day, 2 ne said. sat the
dnqr OF a ,dining-room in a hotel in Toxic,
where ali kinds of Foreigners were stay.
Ing, and watched them as they came lin.
The Frenchman came in with madame
on his arm. .Hhen the Englishman came
In SO {imitating q spnmpous .self-importanti
persenage). And his wife? oh. she came
IN after him like this 4dramatizing Al
meek and timid woman foilowing). And
the American husband? Oh, he's not in
1T! Madame sails In ahead of him and
he just walks behind, wherever she goes.
Queen Victoria gave her countenance to
ladies riding the tricycle. at a very early
stage of the introduction of a ma
chine. According to the Hub. 1T was
while taking her favorite drive along the
Newport Road in the Isle of Wight that
she for the first time. saw a lady riding
a tricycle., and she was SO pleased that
she ordered two machines to be sent to
Osborne for some of her ladies to learn
to ride upon. When the more expeditions
bicycle came into use her Majesty looked
Rskance for a time at ladies riding it;
but now she takes the greatest delight In
watching the merry cycling parties of
Rrincesses which start daily from Bal
moral I'm the autumn.
"
A woman is at b head of Rnssia's!
Archaeological Congress, the Countess
Paraskowja Moarow. She is the widow
Of Count Alexis Moarow, who founded
the socisty; is herself an accomplished
archaeologist. and makes al admirable
president.
Large pearl buttons for handsome
cloaks are set with a rim of imitation
emeralds, diamonds. rubIes. etc. Some.
have fine gold designs In the centre.
A NIlfR0D WITH A GUN.
"A eolered man bearing the name of
Nimrod Schapper, was arrested last might