The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-20
This Is New Motto Adopted by
Pretty Girls in Topeka.
Here and There They Are
Jumping Into Mems Work.
AND, WHY SHOULDN'T THEY?
Doctors, Dentists, Lawyers, OPP
ticians-GOOd for All Trades.
Right Now the City Sees Blazed
Trail of Female Hand.
tBY BERTHA HENIPsTEAD.)


Following the age when a woman of
forty retired to the chimney corner,
pieced the family quilts, minded" the
grandchildren. and wore her hair
done up half a jump above her neck
in a little wad that appeared to be
frightened up with a monkey-wrench.
came the day of the woman school
teacher. After the bold venture of
femininity into the teaching ranks. the
new woma took to stenography and
bicycles And now at last she has be-
gun her quest of occupationai fields
that should be her exclusive preserves,
but where mems feet have worn all the
paths. The up-and-coming girls are
asking themselves why they should
spend a whole year studying Tenny-
sons MA " in order to get an M. A.
degree by which a capricious school
board will employ them to teach long
division in the primary.
Topeka as about half a dozen wo-
men lawyers; not now practicing, but
at least with a knowledge of the law.
The newe@ t-arrived of these female
attorneys has found a new way to use
her law school training. She is IN the
state bureau of child hygiene, engaged
in research work, determining points
of law connected with the department,
and assisting in the framing of pro-
posed laws governing child welfare in
the state.
A new field for women is in op-
tomony. So ne OF the girls with view
TO digging out of the old rut, have de-
cided that there is no good reason why
the women should sit around the OF
flee and keep the card index. Whlle
the male optician fits the glasses and
takes in the high percentage of prof.
fits. 1t is said that there are few bust
n , hi
that of fitting spectacles-
Trail for Scientific Work.
A Topeka girl, Annetta Nicoll. has
blazed the path, locally at least, for
women in a branch of scientific work
She is a highly trained chemist. haV-
ing taken a degree from Cornell, ana
is employed by the city of Topeka, as
its bacteriologist. She counts the
bugs" in the towns milk supply, thus
guarding the health of the entire city,
and she examines all germ disease Gull
lures brought to her by the city phys1-
cian A woman also, DR.. Sara GREEN
field is the state bacteriolOgist, and
coddles the germs of Kansas, coax1ng
them to live while she makes out their
race, color. ana nationality, and de-
cides how dangerous they are to So
ciety.
Certain branches of surgery, also,
should be particularly suitable for
women The increased number of
operations for the removal of tonslls
and adenoids offers a field for women
who will lit themselves for it They
should be especially adapted to that
work with their small hands and
delicate touch. The new plan for
carrying physical training into the
schools, and its concomitant, the
scheme for making the children physi-
cally fit, will multiply throat and head
operations to such an extent that the
male specialists won't need to worry
about the female trespassers on their
hereditary field of maneuvers.
Women Dentists.
Women dentists in the special work
of~orthodony have a chance to excel.
The work of Strengthening children's
teeth is SO much eded and SO benef-
icent III it's IS that it reaches to
the dignity of an actual work of
mercy. The new-fangled doctors all
declare that two-thirds of the nala-
dies of grown people can be traced to
tonsils and defective teeth. Here,
then, is chance for women to exer-
else their long acknowledged healing
mission" by going back to first causes
instead of having turned over to them
the job of salvaging the wreckage after
the ruin has been wrought.
Yet another opportunity for women
specialists is in branch of the medi-
cal profession that has not vet been
burnt out" and that is in the diet of
children. The women doctors are sure
tn = the practice of obstetrics should
belong to the women physicians ex-
clui -vely, as it did, they say, unt1
about 200 years ago when the first
l-Iale attendant in such a case. dressed
in women's clothes, ushered in the
preseI.t system by hich the house
holds latest boarder makes its debut
in this weary old world, in a presenta-
ton ceremony conducted by a man.
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