Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-20
MODERN MAIDS WAYS
PUZZLE BLOCKLEY FOLK
Doctor Rea Has Gone and Got
Married and Will Retain
Her Name
WEDS u. OF P. SCIENTIST
By M'LISS

Dy Nh
out at BlocSley the old men and the old
women haven't had such juicy bit of gos-
sip to nod their heads over for many moons
Their Doctor Rea has gone and got mar
ried and she's gonna keep her own name
too" They can scarcely knit or weave
their baskets for contemplating the ways
of modern maids.
The announcement Of the marriage of Dr.
Marian Hague Rea to Or. Baldwin Lucke.
assistant pathologist at the University of
Pennsylvania, at the home of the formers
father, the Rev, James Rea. in Dorchester,
Mass, last Friday evening, coupled with
the statement that the young lady doc" Ia
to retain her own name, has set the wards
agog with gossip. They called her the
"Rea of Sunshine" when she had charge
OF them and they knew shed up and do
something like that"
A graduate of Vassar and later of the
Woman's Medical College or Philadelpi- "a
Doctor Rae competed with more than 100
doctors of the male persuasion for an in
terneship at the Philadelphia General Hos
pital and won IL. There hadn't been a
woman inferno at Blockley for six years
ana her coming was greeted with distrust
But, according to one of her teachers at
the Woman's Medical College she not only
was one of the most brilliant pupils ever
graduated there. but one of the most popu-
lar, and it wasn't long before she had
won the confidence of even the most obdu-
rate misogynist in the ward. Her in
terneship was completed last fall and when
she left TO go to her home in Dorchester she
told her favorites enigmatically that 1t
wouldn't be long before she'd come back.
Al present az Doctor Rae. the wife of Doc
tor Luclle. she Is on the staff of the Boston
Psychopathic Hospital. Next fall. how
ever, her work will be terminated there and
she expects TO work side by side with her
husband in the University laboratory here
Doctor Rea's ideas embody curious mix
ture of feminnity and feminism. She be-
lieves-and has substantiated her belief
that it is quite possible TO do mans work
In womanly way, and she used to make an
incongruous piCblre--and n charming one,
too-as she hoped into the Blockley am
bulance sometimes for a night call in the
Tenderloin. her golden hair flying, her face
lit with enthusiasm, her masculine inferno
Jacket and stethoscope supplying the pro-
fcssonal touches.
''Of course. ! believe in being feminine a."
she told me in an interview before she left
Blockley, but not wnen It comes to a
question of work. Then I like to be--and
am-trcated as doctor. not as n woman
Work Is work. whether you are masculine
or feminine, and If I've got anywhere at
all it's because | learned early TO recognize
that fact"
II get just as many ambulance calls as
the men," she said spiritedly, land Just as
many night calls. I'd be mad If 7 didn't.
1t didn't take long to bring Blockley pa
tients around to that viewpoint either,
though some of them didn't know there
were such emancipated beings as women
doctors I've handled hundreds of drunks--
men and women-and I've never had TO
reprmand one who was impudent or lack.
ing in respect because ! was a woman"
In the meantime. it is rumored that there
is heartsuffering among some of the staff
at the University as the result of the an
nouncement of Doctor Rea's marriage.