Gloucester County Democrat., 1909-01-14

The difference between the French
and the English manner is not more
strikingly contrasted than in their
handling of the delicate suffragette
problem. The English method is an
abebodied policeman with a club; the
French method is diplomacy. One
Mile. Jeanne Laloe of Paris, being
aware that the election law of the re-
candidates and electors, but makes no
mention of sex, recently decided that
she would be a candidate for a seat in
the municipal council. She donned
her most fetching gown and repaired
one morning to the Office of the mayor
of the reimbursement to request the
use of a schoolroom for electioneering
lawyer, Mile. Jeanne Verone. Smiling
blandly upon the mayors clerk, she
made her request. ;Ie smilez as bland
ly in return and temporizeL.. The clerk
carried the request to tAe mayor, who
received the ladies in his most courtly
manner. He regretted that it was not
in his power to grant their request. 1t
desolated him that he was unable to
oblige ladies so charming, but it was
out of his province There was a high
er power to whom he must refer their
request, etc. The ladies departed
smiling and contented The mayor
shifted the responsibility to some one
else, and there were more smiles and
/ bows and charming exchanges of COM
pliments and shiftings of responsibility,
which is much nicer than the club
bings of dear old England or even the
mobbings and doubtful eggs OF this
land of the free.
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An innovation in the physical train
ing department of Barnard College For
| Women in New York is the teaching OF
first aid to the drowning. Into the
| swimming tank at the gymnasium one
young woman is thrown by the in
structor, and the other members of the
class are expected to rescue her as
neatly and in as few seconds as posi-
BILE. OF course the supposed victim
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| drowning. She gives her would be res
cuers as much trouble as possible in
making the rescue, and they practice
on her the various grips and breaks.
This seems like a sensible departure
for women's colleges.
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Society women in st. Louis have
found a new way of improving their
charms. 1t is by taking a run in the
park early each morning. The ladies
go to the park entrance at sunrise
clad in sweaters and bloomers and
make the run like any ordinary sprint
er taking his daily training. The runs
are reputed to be promoters of health
and good looks.
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| 1t seems pity that some of the
struggling women physicians who are
graduated every year do not go to
China to practice There the demand
for women doctors is great and the
supply small. While the monetary re-
turns might not be large, the practi-
toner would acquire that experience
which is so large factor in the sue
cess of every physician. A few Chi
nese women have come to America for
an education and have finished with
the study of medicine. One of these,
DR.. Meihu Shih, who translates her
name for American use to Dr. Mary
Stone, is the head of great hospital
| ~, J,o ;ot
tion, the Elizabeth Danforth Memorial
hospital was erected by wealthy Chi
cago gentleman as memorial to his
wife. 1t is the only source of medical
| aid to the million or more inhabitants
of the region. DR.. Shih has trained a
staff of Chinese girls as nurses. She
recently came to this country to un-
dergo an operation for appendicitis
and was compelled to turn away many
! important cases and leave the district
temporarily without a physician. DR..
Shih is graduate of the medical de-
| partment Of the University of Michi-
gan and is thirty-three years of age.
/ No matter how unwelcome the Chris
ton women missionary may be to the
heather, the Christian physician never
| fails to make her way, for on account
of the isolation of the women of the
orient it is considered indecorous for
them to receive the ministrations of
male physicians, and unless woman
doctor is available they must suffer and
die without medical aid
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Mrs. Sarah Grand, the author of
''The Heavenly Twins" is, like her
countrywoman Miss Alma Tadema,
lecturing on the art of finding happi-
ness. Englishwomen apparently have
found the royal road to happiness, for
Of late there has been quite an cpl
demic of happiness experts.
MARY DALE.
The Value of Privacy.