Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-02

with the exception Of the notorious
snlon Kop dispatches Mt ITeVes
sniseue Of women" has been perhaps
me most discussed topic Of the week.
saws a London news letter 70 the Ne"
york sun. Not so famous as Sir VIII
liam MacCormac, whose name as
military surgean Is known 10 every one
Mr. Travss is nevertheless the fore
most surgeon I'm this country and when
AZ a dinner given TO him and Sir VIII
liam M the Reform club last Saturday
rigbt ne blunuy declared that 80 far
as the sick are concerned there are two
rlseues In South Africa-the plague OF
ales and the plague Of women some
,rotes, was 10 be expected. and u was
coon heard In very shrill tones. lndls
nant women wrote 10 the papers el"
reminded the world Of Florence Nlsn1
inqale. and the noble work done Dy ug
women nurses all over the world as Wen
as In South Africa. Against THESE WV,
men Mr. Treves. Of course, had nothing
10 say. Tor them he had nothing Dut
praise He made his meaning petlec,y
plaln when he said: "Consluerlns lh'
klnd OF war In which we are engaged
ana the number Of lives lost the plc
ture OF number OF deliberately dressed
ladies masquerading In summer tolles
and arranging picnics about Cape
Town Is blot on the campaign VI
course. he referred to fashionable sen
satlon hunters who have gone TO SCUM
Africa IN shiploads
When these women got 20 CaDe Town
they looked about FOR amusement ana
thcv found Il and shared II win hu'
merous young officers who got leave
rom duty while the troops were sun
being organized. But when the mis-
ogynist Kitchener eIt out we nave
been told how he wegt round 20 all the
hotels. examined their registers ana
packed of every officer he found 70
duty again. -,
Then the women had to look else
where Tor amusement Mr.. TreVes may
be allowed TO describe where they FOUND
n ana how they took H. The folloWlng
Is his scathlng reply TO the attacks
made on his speech at the Reform cluD
dinner.
''The extraordinary outburst OF re-
sentiment which my remarks about Wo.
men oilers at Cape Town has aroused
Is due 10 two things--the misreporting
OF what I actually did say and an in
ordlnately stupid public
How any reasoning person can pos
sibly have construed my remarks INTO
a sweeping condemnation Of all WOO
men workers at the front / cannot, for
the life Of me, understand, for OF
course. nothing half so foolish or un-
lust was conveyed In what i said az
the Reform club dinner Probably no
one living has a deeper sense than /
have OF the splendid work which many
large hearted unselfsh women, pro-
fessional and amateur alike, are dong
In South Africa today.
"You may remember that ] was the
only consulting surgeon that took out
a stan Of nurses ! did so because
know that women are indispensable TO
that important branch OF hospital work.
For the other women-the amateurs II
you care 70 call them sO-who have
given up home, money and comfort 70
help IN the work Of alleyiaung suner-
ing, l have only the deepest admiration.
That any one In all the world should
have attached any other meaning to my
remarks, / am as l said before. simply
aBtonished.
"But'-and here Mr. Treves brought
his olenched right hand into the palm
OF his left-"but when ! explain the
condition OF affairs In Cape Town.
where the other sort Of woman Is
gathered, you viii be able to judge for
yourself whether ! was justified In
entering a strong protest against what
] described as the plague OF women
Cape Town was, at the time OF which
] spoke packed with women idlcrs the
majority OF them society or smart
people. who, yearning for new excite
ments, had come out TO South Africa TO
make a holiday 1 say, and / say IL
very earnestly, that the condition of
affairs. az brought about by the pres
ence OF these ladies. was an absolute
disgrace 10 our country.
"The hotels of Cape Town Il viii say
nothing OF Durham were crammed with
these people IN the enjoyment Of what
10 them was a picnic on q large scale.
The Mount Nelson hotel was packed
with them. and II a sick or wounded
officer came down from the front in
bFEAAu ca atNNlAllllhAAAANl A' IAA ll"A
the slightest chance OF getting into a
decent hotel These ladies had not the
faintest pretext for being In South
Africa beyond their own desire to make
the campaign a means Of obtaining new
pleasures and excitements
That, however, was not the worst
side Of their presence When dinner
parties and other junketiug grew
wearisome. they would make up parties
20 visit the hospitals. What shall we
do today? oh. let's 90 and see the
wounded would be the preparation 10
an invasion OF the base hospitals and
an incalculable amount of Interference
with the work Of the medical stan OH
GERS IN charge OF wounded would in
the course of their duties, be inter-
rupted by ladies bearing permits signed
by personages whose request the 09l-
GERS dared not or did not care 20 refuse.
You know, perhaps what influence
means IN the matter Of promotion. and
so the women would be taken round
the wards and the wounded shown TO
the utter Reorganization OF discipline