The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-20

The announcement is made that young French woman doctor, Mile. Sara Broido' has obtained the appointment or snlp 2 doctor on one of the steamers plying ee-
 tween Algiers and Marseilles and IS now serving in that capacity. Probably the
 number of Algerian Mohammedan wo- men that travel on these vessels made the appointment of a woman ships sur geon especially desirable in this instance; still 1t was a beginning Since Miie' BrOido began her work other young French women physicians have applied for the place of ships doctor.
 After all, however, 1t was not an American woman who thus broke the ice for her sex. but French woman, in land where the feminine sex Is hampered by law, tradition and superstition to an extent unknown in America, American trained nurses are beginning to serve as we'll paid stewardesses on ocean steamers. but no graduated woman physician Ae as yet a ship surgeon; perhaps has not even thought of applying for the berth.
 Now that a French lady M. D. has shown the way, though. we may expect her pioneer footsteps to be followed. On our own transpacihc steamers and on those plying around the coasts or Asia women doctors might get appointments without much trouble. once the idea De- came familiar to marine autnorltles' Many of the passengers on these steam
 era are oriental women and children, and the suggestion of a man doctor TOT the female sex is one peculiarly aohorrent 10 the Asiatic mind. For the same reason there Is even now famous opening TOT women physicians and women meoicai missionaries throughout the wnoie orient.
 In every part of the world the note Of uroeress Is sounding Tor woman. He must be either very blind or very bigoted who fails to acknowledge rne great change that has taken place in the status Of wo- mankind in the past generation. Fifty years ago dire catastrophe was prophe- sled as the consequence Of the unnatural attempt to give woman more liberal education and broaden for her the wage earning field. Not one of the disastrous consequences predicted has followed. Ma ture looked out for that. Woman Is still gentle, affectionate, refined, still loves her home and children as well as she did De- fore she learned to read and write. and she is all the wiser as a mother and home maker from understanding hygienic house. keepinR and the scientific management of children. Proportionately fewer wo~
 men are mothers than was the case in inc old days when there was no choice except for a girl to marry whether she wanted to or not. but In the clty sums in the college settlements and in the clubs and classes for the mothers or the very poor so many intelligent women with no children of their own are now devotlng themselves to the children of others that relatively more infants are reared to ma turity than were in the old days. It is better maturity too
 Germany. slow, yet dead sure when she once starts. was late to feel the new wo- man impulse, but it is question now whether the women of Germany are not making a nobler use of their hard won privileges than are the women in America where opportunity come comparatively easy. When by special permit woman here and there was allowed to take cer- tain courses without a degree in Ger man universities it was not thought that women would ever apply as students in any considerable number.
 But they did. The girls just fiocked and knocked for admission to the grand old German seats of learning. Some profes- sors were for letting them in. while others almost howled. solemnly affirming that 1t