The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1902-06-07

She spoke English imperfectly. YET
she had not been In this country many
years before she saw the great need OF
a hospital for women in the spot where
she had chosen to live. Poor. friend
less, foreigner. but gifted with the
same kind of energy that sent Column
bus across the ocean, and the same
faith i'm endeavor that upheld Wash
ington at Valley Forge, she got the
money together for a magnificent hos
pital She had the inspiring power.
She worked and talked herself. and
she Influenced the women to hold fairs
and to use all kinds of means to col
lect money. and finally her magnificent
project was thing of stone and
marble with an adjacent maternity
hospital.
We ourselves give up little things
every day that we have tried to do
because of discouragements, cold
water, unresponsiveness, ct cetera.
This little foreigner. jealous to do
something for the poor women whom
she treated In conditions of such
saualor and wretchedness that the
babes right to be born in a clean place
could not be assured him, saw the ter
ribie need of hospital. and. forthwith,
built one.
BY her own wish. her funeral ser
vices were held without religious cere-
mony, and she herself wrote, when she
knew she must die soon. her own fare
well to the earth and to the friends she
thought she should never see again.
Mr.. VIM. Lloyd Garrison pronounced
a farewell to the body that had for so
long held the soul of a great woman.
Mr. Garrison said: She had no pol
lite methods, no skill i'm concealing
opinions that traversed those i'm vogue.
but her manifest sincerity of soul at
tracted helpers whom policy would
have repealed. Although not literally
the first woman physician in Boston.
she was. par excellence, the head of
the long line of educated women who
adorn and dignity the ranks of the
profession in this vicinity. She won
and kept the same proud position else
where held by her venerable surviving
pioneer friends. Doctors Elizabeth and
Emily Blackwell. The very success of
her students. consequent upon her
faithful conflict against a senseless
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trials and disappointments that then
blocked the way. The same solemn
objections that are today urged to OBJ
struct the further progress of women.
were then actively employed to show
the danger OF admitting the sex to the
practice of medicine.
Living in an environment of relig-
ious formality. she remained firmly
outside the pale of theological influ-
ence; and IL she found satisfaction in
Theodore Parker's sermons it was be-
cause of their humanity. regardless of
speculations on the future life, of
which she was frank unbeliever. No
threats of punishment hereafter would
tempt her to misreport the message
which her reason brought. Whatever
reality there may be in the heaven
pictured by devout minds. il is safe to
say that no celestial city that bars out
such souls as this for unbelief would
be worth the seeking"
Then Dr. Zakrzewska's own farewell
to the friends who had gathered at her
home just before the body was taken
to the crematory is remarkable for
frankness and undaunted facing of OBJ
livfon. During my whole lifetime 1
have had my own way as much as any
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