The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-18
AN ATTRACTION OF OPPOSITES

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 In the irreverent language of the day, Sarah Cfowland was . hen medic, but he woul have been bold man who told her 80. In plain tax, she was q fumaie physician of the altopathic school who had studied il Philadelphia, Paris.
 At go ' ears of age she was more to the front of her p. ofes, ion than many male Of twice her az, and she knew 1t. Born wth n ss ;as sR R aRd hRd Ref paa und svia tingly, doing those things which The best liked and for which she thought herself to be best fl ted. She was con ttant to science and to her life-work. As a doctor she was distinctly worthy of praise. In prcgn isis and diagnosis shs iacke littis. II hr practice had been and tried something else. Her. eases to her were sexless. She would treat truckman suneiing from delirium tre- mems az readily as an infant with water on the brain, She had the large, smooth, white firm hand of surgeon. Generi- cally ho iosk d on man as descendant of the pithecanthropus and on woman as his assistant in the perpetuation of spe- cies.
 A remarkable woman in mind and re- markab!e In appearance She. was tall and sti ong, with certain massiveness of figure accsntuated by her habitually plain clothing. Her brow was low and broad, her nJse Grec.an. her mouth large. well shape and the lips firmly set. her com plS%lOn ciear put cOlOTleee ana her cniu almost masculine in size and squareness. Her hair was a reddish brown and her eyes blue, cold and limpid. She was apove. and beyond society and conven- tionality. coming and going as she pleas ed, doing her work sometimes in an aris- tocratic mansion. sometimes in a fever infested hovei, Valuing herself highly, she charged highly for her work when pa- tients were able to pay; when not, she gave of her skill and strength as freely and recklessly as ever an eastern prince poured out his ingots for the fancy of within block of a car-line, and she used the latter as often almost as she used the electric cab which stood in her stables. years, lived in the house with her; her driver slept in a room above the electric cab. She received callers only in pro- fessional way and neither had nor desired intimates. 1t was a hard life, and, in a sense, lonely one, but 1t suited her.
 The electric car ruEhed down Tromsoe Street one night at speed of fifteen miles an hour. It was three minutes be- hind time. The conductor had angered the mot t3rman and the motorman felt a desire to release his crank, go to the rear and smash the conductor; The huddied passengers knew none of these things A late moving van came out of Bland Street at trot and started across the track. The motorman turned dead white. snatch jumped. The driver of the van swore in D scream and was hurled forty feet There was the usual crash of steel front boarl and splintering glass; also the usual miraculous escape of passengers Out of the wreck they hauled one man, bleeding and unconscious. Nobody thought to turn in a call for an ambu- lance and the body lay upon the stones with throng of curious shocked people about 1t. An electric cab came along and woman descended. She felt the pulse and the heart beat, turned back the eyelids and ran her white fingers along 8 Eash that showed jagged and red in the thick black hair.
 Not dead, but near it." she said. Put him in my cab. I'll take him to my home"
 "It's the woman doctor" one or two of them said and they obeyed her Standing above an operating tahle and looking down in the glare of four elec- tric bulbs. Miss, Crawland saw a small delicate man of S5 years. His skin was olive. his lips full and weak. his eye brows jet black and his hair and his fore head high and pale. One hand hung list lessly and she. noted the long nervous fingers of 1t. Next moment her own fin. gers were at work clipping the hair about the wound and preparing to put stitches into the gash. As she worked she talked to her assistant, young woman physi- elan hastily summoned from across the way.