The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-28

Ma am, shah put ginger into this
pumpkin" queried Nina.
NO, you may let that alone just now"
said Harriet. Then she proceeded " I
know my duty TO my children. I see the
hour must come. You must take them
Henry. They are my last earthly COM
fort
Ma am, what shall I do with the egg
shells, and all this truck here?" interrupt
ed Nina
They are my last earthly comfort, -"
said l. What next?"
she continued to dictate: You must
take them away. 1t may be-perhaps it
must be-that 1 shall soon follow; but the
breaking heart of wife still pleads little
longer. little longerr 3"
How much longer must the ginger
| bread stay IMP inquired Nina.
Five minutes" said Harriet
! A little longer, a little longer!' I re-
peated, and We burst into laugh.
Thus We went on, cooking, writing and
laughing, till l finally accomplished my
object. The piece was finished, copied and
the next day sent to the editor.
Certain people. says the New York Tri-
! bune, are SO constituted that they are un-
able to give an order or come TO a decis-
ion without a long explanatory preamble
that is almost ludicrous in its discursive-
/ ness.
Mamma" said the eldest daughter of
the house. Il simply cannot stand shop
ping with Aunt Mile. Her confidential re-
marks to the clerks are too trying! L wish
you could have heard her yesterday, buy
ing a dinner gown. L do not want this
dress she deliberately explained, for a
| large function l want something service
/ able that | can wear continually and yet
feel well dressed in it, you know; some
thing that would do for a small dinner
/ where there are only intimate friends and
so on. The man looked at her helplessly. 1
am sure, madam, this is just what you
want he repeated at intervals. Finally
the gown was bought, and she proceeded
| TO buy trimming. A woman was at that
/ counter, and she was inclined TO be as
! garrulous as auntie herself. And they dis
cussed chiffons until / was nearly wild
But the climax came at the milliner's
where auntie finally bought bonnet; but
the explanations she gave of just when
and where and how she wanted to wear
! that hat was too funny!
| az think your best plan madam, would
be TO buy several, said the woman who
was waiting on us at length; she was
/ sharp-looking parsonage. L am sure one
! could not possibly answer for all the oc-
casiOns you describe.
At a jewelers. recently a woman of this
type was overheard asking for a watch.
| Il want a timepiece that Is thoroughly
| substantial that villa not be injured if the
| owner forgets to wind it up, that can stand
hard knocks" and after describing the
ills that watches are heir TO, she ended
with. In short 1 want a watch suitable
for my son, who is boy of fourteen
81 am afraid the young gentleman will
have to adapt himself to his watch an
swered the salesmn. IT m sure no watch
that is MANUFACTURED would be adapted to
him"
A wax figure of Lieut. Hobson has just
hoe Mo on h h tom ~ he
see 1t was made by the Musee's sculp-
tor, Pompeo Coppini, who has designed and
| executed all The war groups and many
| other equally artistic works. Hobson en-
! gagged Sculptor Coppini to make a bronze
bus, for his mother, and posed at the
sculptor's studio several days. After mod
cling in clay the bust for the heros moth
err the sculptor made a similar figure from
life for the Musee. After Hopson approx
/ ed the bust, a cast In plaster was made,
! and from this cast a wax cast was made
for the figure. 1t is placed in the group
of naval heroes which include Dewey,
Sampson and Sch1ey, and represents the
hero in full-dress uniform. 'p
The first qualified woman physician in
| Europe, so far as is known, saws the Med
ical Journal, was a young Athenian wo-
man named Agnodice In the year 300 B.
| C. she disguised herself as a man and be-
gan 20 attend the medical schools at Ath-
! ems which il was against the law for a
woman to do. She afterward practced
among the women of Athens with extraor-
| binary success. But her secret becoming
| known, she was prosecuted for studying
| and practicing medicine illegally. The
| Athenian women, however, raised so furi-
! Gus an agitation in consequence that the
| case was dropped and the law repealed.
| Coming to later times, we find several wo-
men who obtained the degree of doctor
| of medicine, and practiced in Europe be-
| fore 1892 especially i'm the Moorish uni
| versities of Spain Trotua, or Rugiero,
| in the eleventh century had a European
| reputation, and practiced as a doctor in
/ Saerno. At the beginning of the four
| tenth century Dorothea Bocchi not only
! received the degree of doctor, but was
! professor of medicine in the famous Uni
versty of Bologna. Since then two other
| women have been professors of medical
! subjects in the same university-Anna
! Mangolini (anatomy) and DR. Maria della
| Dome (obstetric medicine), the latter be-
| ing appointed in 1899 In the year 1911 an
| edict was issued in France forbidding sur
geons and female surgeons from practic-
ing until they had passed a satisfactory
examination before the proper authorities.
| These female surgeons are again referred
to in an edict in 1852
| 1t is to Frederika Bremen that Swed-
| ish women owe the fact that nearly all
careers are now open to them, though pub
! lie opinion still looks doubtful about their
| ability to contend in the university and in
| many public careers with man. The
change has been accomplished in Sweden
! slowly and with little platform declama-
| ton. In almost every department of labor
of head or hand, woman In Sweden is TAX
! ing an honored place. She may preach if
she chooses mot i'm the state churches), or
! deliver lecture or an address for any
! benevolent purpose or any public reform
and be listened to by a respectable audi
ence of both sexes. Co-education in schools
| is rapidly gaining ground. Quietly and eff
GENTLY many superior women have been
working with the pen by personal infu-
ence to bring about these great changes.