The sun., 1901-01-02
\ DAY IN THE LIFE OF
! A WOMAN PHYSICIAN
By Edith Sessions Tupper.

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DIR. Jane Stuart ran over her morn
ing's mail with mingled frown and
smile. There were letters from all
sorts and conditions of people, invita-
tions to dinner, confidential notes, let
tiers from cranks and message from a
woman reporter asking for an inter-
view.
DIR. Jane was parsonage. She was
physical director Of tremendously
smart woman's athletic club. She had
a chair in a woman's college. She pos
sessed large practice. She had writ
ten several pamphlets on germs, bacte-
ria, microbes and other unpleasant
things. Moreover, she was charming
woman, socially sought and popular in
her circle.
But she was frightfully overworked.
Sometimes the exquisite machinery of
her nerves got awry, and then DIR. Jane
wished she could steal away from ev-
erything and rest. She was living CON
stantly at high pressure and was typ
ical woman of the new school.
DR.. Jane answered such communca
tions as were of moment, accepted an
invitation to dine at smart house,
gave the newspaper woman an ap-
pointment for 80 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 fellow practi-
: toner, DR.. John Treadwell, who lived
> Just across the street and was about
. entering his carriage.
DR.. John uncovered and swept her
! magnificent salutaton.
Dr. Jane bllshed.
q She would have been furious with
any one who dared to tell her that her
0 face grew rosy. She would not have
r, admitted so feminine a weakness. Still
IS she blushed.
It Now, the cause of that blush was
IT this: DR.. John was in love with DR..
it Jane and had frankly told her 50 and
J. asked her to marry him. But the offer
DIR. Jane must abandon her practice.
y "I do not want my wife running about
/ and killing herself with work, as you
m are doing. Moreover ! want COM
" panion, not a fellow practitioner"
AZ Now. DIR. Jane was in love with DR..
a. John, but she refused to abandon her
career and told him So
~ They had fine quarrel, and DR.. Jane
o+ told DIR. John she hated him, which
q. was not polite. Moreover, it was not
IN true, and he knew 1t.
80 lust now these two medical experts
~. were treating each other with that eX
or. aggerated courtesy which warning loV
ers always affect.
-, "Horrid man!' said DR., Jane to her
g., self "IIe can keep carriage While
W have to trudge around on foot. HOY
~ handsome he looks! | should like t
"a ki-to kill him-odious wretch!'
aet art "Dear, spunky little woman" though
80 DR.. John. "She looks completely fal
.iG tp ged. She is killing herself by inches
but she won't give in, obstinate min2
Oh, these women and their careers"
Dr. John drove away in his bran
!. new carriage, his dusky coachma
:, grnning at his side. DR.. Jane wake
Nen a block and hailed passing car.
Vi She rang the bell of handsome
town house and was promptly show
ives up stairs The room she entered WI
ilne darkened. On luxurious divan, am
i've a forest of siken pillows, lay sll
woman in a ravishing negligee. >
dice had once been great beauty, but n
ross face, with its haggard eXpressic
,ked drawn lines and faded, lackluster ey'
told story of misery.
COR "Oh, doctorv she moaned as
ored Jane went to her side and gently to
own her hand. "Oh, am suffering so!
won't you give me just little-ol
I'd in half grain, beg you, only half
Il Of grainT'
the The poor creatures voice rose aim
and to shrek. "AIy husband is so crue
she sobbed. "The servants are all
and his pay can't get any sleep. OF
!. for am almost crazy"
elvet She wept she Wruns ner uia'ii'
hit laden hands, she grew more and IN
hysterical
A.. When an hour later DR.. Jane emt
aro cd from the house, she showed in
, 60 white face the tremendous strain
had undergone in controlling and {
soling this wretched victim Of n
oo;p- phine.
49, DIR. Jane had a busy afternoon
knot, soe 49, - ,aa,.aa ,,,hi+or :
and iine '.t ".h' - 80. a,tono5 har homo
| ever as Sle re-euleTeu HeT uOlhe.
she sat down at her desk to correct
10 o.. proofs of her article on death In
ns ~ Dishcloth" her head swan.
'Tm knocked out" she said. 81
lieve I'll go away for few days"
The bell rang, and smartly gov
young woman was shown in. 1t
an i, ~, the reporter of Sunday papel
,s "9g,u Ciiu whom she had given an appointme
81 wish to get out ideas on
- Ath. topic" stated this self possessed "
oks rs woman. "Do you think that MARI
,es like interferes with woman's protest.
ommer- career? Your opinion as phys
will be most valuable. have $
of tho Inents from a woman lawyer, VIC
is one preacher, an editor and an actress,
them of course I must get the theory
! I S wneh physician"
sun. DIR. Jane leaned back In her chail
ciean- n regarded this seeker of light tho
H. LIS fully. EYES," she said, with jus
n,ourn. suspicion Of sigh; Il do not see /
watch. woman can be good wife and m
and yet attend faithfully to the