The National tribune., 1907-06-27

which they cannot perform. OF course,
they have never yet taken up soldier
ing for living, but that is about the
only masculine realm which they have
not invaded. The Census Bureaus re-
port tells us that there are 4.S33.630
women at work in the United States,
and of this number a large part are
doing work which 10 years ago would
have been thought madness on a wo-
mans part to attempt. Women are now
pilots, baggagemen. brakemen. condlic-
tors, engine drivers, carpenters. black
smiths, machinists. well borers. coke and
lime burners, shopkkeepers of all kinds.
real estate brokers and thousand and
one other things which until quite re-
Gently We're occupations pre-empted en-
tirely~ by the Sterner sex. OF course.
there have been women doctors for a
good many years, some of whom have
achieved great eminence. and it seems
rather surprising that more women have
not taken up the profession of dentistry.
This would seem to be vocation quite
In her line, with her supposedly light.
deft, delicate touch which her smaller,
more sensitive. more supple hands
make possible, her adaptabilty, intui-
tive reading of human nature, and quick
insight into conditions and situations. y
dentists office has no charm; every
body, from the child with an aching
tooth to the person of mature age,
breads visit to the dentist. AS gen.
eral thing their offices are dull, unat-
tractive places, with nothing but the
sliding shelves of instruments to look 1T
while the horrid work of excavating or
filling is going on. What a charming
place woman could make her Office
with lovely pictures. flowers, singing
birds and a thousand dainty and eye
delightinG accessories Then imagine
those self-same instruments of torture
handled by a nictnrpSunp1y ppwnnd
man of pleasing personality whose nice,
white hands had firm but gentle touch,
who wouldn't insist upon talking to you
when your mouth was stretched open,
and who always went very, very lightly
over the sensitive spots. Under these
pleasing conditions wouldn't a visit to
the dentists be robbed of half its hor-
rors? I believe so. However, the fact
remains to be recorded that compara-
lively few women are practicing this
profession to-day. The reasons given
for this are the comparatively few first
class dental colleges or schools where
a woman can prepare herseIf-the New
York City Dental College absolutely re-
fuses to receive women-the long hours
and hard work which the course de-
mand5, the expense of this course and of
fitting up an office afterwards. New York
has II women dentists, all of whom are
doing a good business, and several with
more work than they can attend to, but
this is a surprisingly small number for
that great city. Undoubtedly, however.
before many more years the woman
dentist will be quite as common as the
woman doctor, and the men will have
to get up very early and stay up very
late to compete with them. Women
have been particularly successful in the
real estate business, and it is calling
which appeals directly to them. A wo-1
mans knowledge of the details of
home makes it easy for her to see the
defects and advantages in houses, and
she is often on this account successful
in renting houses and apartments when
men have failed. This is a good field
for women, and good women are needed
in it.
The whole country will heartily ap-1
prove the finding of the jury in the CASE
of Mrs. Kaufman, the wife of the
wealthy Sioux Falls brewer. who has
just been tried for the murder of herr
young servant girl. Agnes Poirels. Mrs.
Kaufman seems to be perfectly sane
yet her acts of cruelty towards that poor
girl rival those of Nero or any other
brutal character given to us by history
1t appears this modern female Torque-.
mado once had a daughter. her only
child, whom death took from her. In
rebellion against this she began slowly
torturing to death this poor, innocent
16-year-old girl, whom she had taken
into her employ and who had the mis-
fortune to resemble her daughter. Wit
nesses at the trial testified that this
cruel woman had poured boiling water
on the little maid, jabbed her with a
broomstick, forced her to bathe her feet
in ashes soaked in water and other
wise SO maltreated her that her death
resulted. The case has been fought
with all the wealth, business and social
prestige that the Kaufmans could bring
to bear. but public sentiment has been
relentless in demanding that justice
should be DONE Mrs. Kaufman's law
yers nave asked for a new trial, and
Oct. 21 has been set for passing SEN
tence upon the prisoner. The minimum
penalty for the offense is four years inn
prisonment at hard labor, which for any
such revolving crime as this Is absurd1y
inadequate.
A rather mild sensation appeared on
the horizon the other day when a So
called daughter of 'Silent Smith" ap-
peared on the scene with letters pur-
porting to be from the reticent, sphynX-
like millionaire to her mother. New
Orleans woman. The claimant, a Mrs.
Sarah Dufreche. said she had in her
possession the marriage license and
wedding certificate, record of her own
christening, and many letters and pho
tographs which would establish her
claim to her mothers part of the Smith
estate, amounting to some $4,000. 600.
Should her story be true no cloud would
be cast on the memory of Silent
Smith," since this supposed former wife
died many years ago. Herman s. Le-
roy, late counsel of Mr.. Smith. makes
light of the story, saying that the date
of the alleged marriage would make Mr..
Smith only IL years of age at the time.
Mrs. Dufreche. the claimant. is the wife
of hopeless invalid and the mother of
three children. The family is in very
destitute circumstances. She has put
her case in the hands of ex-Judge VIM.
T. Houston, who has stated that legal
battle will be started in Orange County,
where the estate will be probated at an
early date.
According to youthful, pretty Mrs
Bronson Howard, man with literary
tastes and temperament does not make
a good husband and should be carefully
avoided by all girls matrimonially in
clined. Mr.. George Bronson Howard,
who is well known in the literary world
met the beautiful Miss Skinner, of Nor
folk, at play in Baltimore only last
April, and fell madly in love with her
on sight. Within two days she agreed
to be his wife, and fearing opposition
they eloped, were married in New York
and sailed at once for London. This
vivacious ,oung woman is now on her
way home, having deserted her hus
band, and the tales she tells of his tenn
per, of his treatment of her and of his