Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-11

you, my dear. You are so ready to be-
neve without question when there's a
| bargain in view If you were little
| fish, I'd catch you every time with
rubber worm if | put bargain sign
| above the hook.
| oh. do be serious for once" cried
| Mrs. Lovegood. Then, to be serious"
! he replied, this woman doesn't claim
| to be physician. She would claim to
| be a physician if she could, because
| she is trying to convey the impression
| in every other way than by direct
| claim that she is a physician. She is
not therefore physician and can never
| have practiced medicine. Yet not be-
| ing a physician and therefore never
| having practiced medicine, she claims
| to have had experience in treating wo-
! man diseases, greater than any living
! physician Now, the question is, since
she never practiced medicine, where
did she get that experience?'
well. that is So" Mrs. Lovegood
| somewhat reluctantly admitted, but
| then she is a woman" I'm not so sure
about that even," said her husband.
at looks to me as if some man was
working the women with the bearded
| lady act
| Bearded lady act, Do you mean to
say that they have dime museum freaks
for doctors? Why you must be foolish,
or else amazingly prejudiced,' cried
| his wife.
You are too literal, my dear" said
| Mr.. Lovegood. What l mean by the
| bearded lady act is that some man Is
| posing as a woman, writing over
womans' signature or using a woman
| as a stalking horse, assuming a wo-
mans character to mislead. Inc
bearded lady of the show is always
freak and generally a fraud. me
| point in this advertisement we are hlS-
cussing is that you are asked TO write
| to woman the implication belng
| that the woman is competent to give
and will give you qualified and Valua-
| BILE medical advice. But as IL Ism
! specified that the woman is physl-
clan there's no infraction OF the law.
| The probabilities are that there ism
a qualified doctor around the place, and
the whole so-called medical cores
pondence' is done by a lot of girl
clerks
ON" Mrs. Lovegood interjected,
that's what it means then when they
say that only women see the cores
| pondence.
Exactly. my dear" continued her
husband, land suppose the woman IN
! the advertisement is real woman anu
not the bearded lady there's your
| dressmaker, who is also woman, not
to speak of Mrs. Flanagan the COOK
mother who is really eXcellent W.
| man. II a woman's not doctor then
one woman's as good as another anu
| it's foolish going TO a stranger nun
| dreds of miles distant for the sympa-
| thy which friends at home can petter
| supply. And as for man not unoer-
| standing a woman's diseases because
| he's a man. that is the cheapest sort of
| claptrap Who have done the DOCTOR
! ing in the past two thousand years?
| The men Where must the modern
! woman physician go for her know
! la6geo To schools taught by men and
| hooks written by men. If this woman,
! who claims men don't understand wo-
| mans diseases, should ever take TO the
study of medicine, she'd have TO be
| taught everything she knew by the
| men who don't know anything accord
| ing 70 her opinion. The problem is,
how a man who don't know anything
| about wonoan's diseases can teach
| woman to know everything about
| them I give it up.
Then you wouldn't write" said
| Mrs. Lovegood, doubtfully.
Write: What for" said her hus-
| band. Write to a woman? What's
| the use of writing to a woman? If you
want to write, write to a doctor. The
first question in sickness is not ques-
| ton of sex but a question Of medical
ability and qualifications. There's no
sex in medicine anyhow. II you want
| to write why not write to a man OF
medical standing. a specialist like DR..
R. V. Pierce. Of Buffalo, n. Y. You
know he's a regularly graduated doc
tor. You know he's good one and at
the head of great medical institution.
| You know he's had thirty years exper-
fence, and has, with the aid OF his stan
of nearly a score of skilled specialists
treated more than hah million
women, who freely confded in the in
tegrity Of the man and the skill Of the
nhzaician- President Garfield once