Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-02-21
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
! DAY in THE LIFE OF
I? A WOMAN PHYSICIAN
BY Edith Sessions Tupper.

by EGlCn sessions upper. q
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DIR. Jane Stuart ran over her morn.
ing's mail With a mingled frown and
smile. There were letters from all
sorts and conditions of people, invita-
tions to dinner, confidential notes, let
ters from cranks and Il message from a
woman reporter asking for an inter.
view.
DR.. Jane was Il pcrsonagc She was
physical director of Il tremendously
smart woman's athletic club. She had
u chair in a womans S college. She pos
scssed Il large practice. She had writ
ten several pamphlets on germs, bacte-
ria, microbes and other unpleasant
things. Moreover, She was a charming
woman, socially sought and popular in
her circle.
But she WAS frightfully ovcrworked
Sometimes the exquisite machinery of
her nerves got awry, and then DR.. Jane
wished she could steal away from ev-
erything and rest. She was living con-
stantly Mt high pressure and was II typ
cal woman of the new school.
DIR. Jane answered such communca-
tioEs as We're of moment, accepted an
Invitation to dine at Il smart house,
gave the newspaper woman AN APP
pointment for $50 that afternoon and
then set forth ON her round of morning
calls.
AS she came down the steps of her
home she bowed to her follow pructi-
| toner, Dr. John Treadwell, who lived
| just across the street and was about
entering his carriage
/ DIR. John uncovered and swept her a
| magnificent salutation.
DR. Jane blushcd.
She would have been furious with
any one who dared to tell her that her
face grow rosy. She would not have
admitted so feminine a weakness. Still
| she blushed.
| Now, the cause of that blush was
this: DIR. John was i'm love with DE-
Jane and had frankly told her so and
asked her to marry him. But the offer
had been accompanied by condition.
| Dr. Jane must abandon her practice
\ ~ do not want my Wife running about
and killing herself with work. as you
are doing. Moreover, want com
| panion, not n fellow practitioner"
Now, I)r. Jane was in love with DR.
John, but she refused to abandon her
career and told him so.
| They had fine quarrel. and DR.. Jane
told DR.. John she hated him, which
"a 4
| true, and he knew it.
Just now these two medical experts
We're treating each other with that en-
aggerated courtesy which warning low
ers always affect.
"Horrid man." said Dr. Jane to her
self. He can keep a carriage, while
have to trudgc around on foot. How
handsome he looks! should like to
ki-to kill him-odious wretch!"
Dear, spunky little woman" thought
| DR.. John. "She looks completely fag-
gcd. She is killing herself by inches,
but she wont give in, obstinate mink.
| Oh. these women and their careersw
DIR. John drove away in his brand
new carriage, his dusky coachman
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a block and hailed passing car.
She rang the bell of handsome up
town house and was promptly shown
up stairs. The room she entered was
darkencd. On a luxurious divan, amid
a forest OF silken pillows, lay a slim
woman in Il ravishing ncgligee. She
had once been a great beauty, but her
Il fpn wifi ify.
| drawn lines and faded, lackluster eyes,
told n story of misery.
ooh. doctor!" she moaned as DIR.
Jane went to her side and gently took
her hand. ooh, am suffering so! Oh,
won't you give me just little-only
half grain, l beg you, only half a
| grain?"
to n Shrek. "AIy husband is SO cruel."
she sobbed. "The servants are all in
his pay. can't get any sleep. Oh,
am almost craZyw
She wept, she wrung her diamond
laden hands, she grew more and more
hystcrlcal.
When an hour later DR.. Jane emerg-
eu LIolu tHc HouSe, sic suoWcu III ueI
white face the tremendous strain she
had undergone in controlling and con-
yoling this wretched victim Of NOR
phine.
DR.. Jane had busy afternoon and
some trying cases. 1t had been a ter
rife strain, and she looked whittier than
ever as she re-entered her home. AS
she sat down at her desk to correct the
proofs of her article on death In the
Dishcloth' her head swan.
"I'm knocked out" she said. ''I be-
lieye I'll go away for few days"
] The bell rang, and smartly gowned
young woman was shown in. 1t was