| Show J DOINGS OF WOMEN The Young Ladies at the New York Infirmary THE WOMANS PRESS CLUBch The J5ip Bcneilt at Which the Kendalls are I to Play finiilinz and Chaperoning Women one Sees I NEW YORK Nov 13 lSJOSpecial correspondence espondence of TIm HnuAti > J The young women who are studying at the Womens Medical college of the New York infirmary h ave nice interesting times when they attend at-tend the clinics at Bellevuo hospital Some t o f these imes are so nice and interesting that if the young women were not uncommonly uncom-monly plucky they would be tempted occasionally ionally to give up the pursuit of knowl dge as she is learned Tho Bellevuo clinics clin-ics i have been for a good number of years pen to girl students and the whitehaired L and kinaly Dr Emily Blackwell arranges I er college lectures to certain classes with especial reference to the hours they are to spend at Bellevue Tho amphitheatre up under the roof where the clinics aro held is i always full and sometimes crowded and the little group of quiet uncomfortably expectant pectant girls who keep one anothers com age up as cheerily as they are able are obliged to face some hundreds of the most riotous youth on the face of this not especi ally courteous planet who shout and catcall cat-call and hiss until tho more timid damsels feel their hearts dropping down down to their boots and wildly fluttering up to their throats again It is one of the beauties of the situation that the tiers of seats rise row upon row so steeply that the girls who enterat the very top are sighted on the instant by the pack which immediately bursts into full cry while its victims feeling their way behind the high backs of the upper benches get hardly a glimpse of their tormentors the uproar being all the more confusing from that sense of eyes which you cannot see seeing you > At one of the first clinics this autumn it happened to two of the younger girls unused L un-used to the ways of tho paco to take the elevator which landed them on the main floor where tho professors enter instead of climbing by the stairs to the top behind I Their appearance was the signal for such storms of yells and hisses that as they mounted with downcast faces to their accustomed ac-customed lofty yet humble posts of observation obser-vation the blood tingled to their finger tips and to the ends of their very longest tresses of hair No girl goes to Bellevue alone but as ono little knot of two or three gets its greeting greet-ing and then another those seated first take a melancholy and uneasy sort of interest inter-est in noting as dainty little hat after bat comes into view above who got off half stunned only and who are deafened with even more than common noise Seated I It there are not seats enough no man offers one tan woman though I remember hear ing a pretty girl recount last week the gal L lantry of a student who recommended to her lla better place to lean on the rail I When there are vacant chairs if the upper seats are taken not all the girls havo courage cour-age to run the gauntlet of tongues and descend i de-scend to any place below so that at Belle TUO clinics the spectacle is familial of a bunch of rather forlorn young women taking their notes standing and hud I dled together in good position for reaching tho door I The Bellevue students do not rotten egg the girls and have no such intention of driving them out as was manifested in bar baric days not long past at Edinburgh One of them says on behalf of his fellows that to hiss and yell at the girls is evidence of good comradeship because that is the way the yonng men treat one another At tho Post Graduate hospital the students have made wonderful advances toward becoming I I be-coming gentlemen and the young women who attend the lectures got a much pleasanter pleas-anter reception A WOMAN IX CA1 AND GOWN I went to hear her the other day and though a law lecture is no subject for mirth I smiled to see that she abates no jot of her costuming privileges Jn the timehonored academic robes she looks slender and tall 1 and her gray eyes shine Portia was young and handsome while the new lec turer at the University of the City of York is i a quiet not especially noticeable woman with a flock of rollicking children Yet if the ladies who are furnishing the money to endow her chair really wished to familiar ize the public with the idea of women lawyers law-yers they havo gone about it cannily for I Dr Emily Kempm is not in any way likely to teach extreme views Indeed coming from Zurich and brought up under continental conti-nental legal systems she finds herself not altogether able to approve the extent of the property rights of American matrons Hearing her one day setting out too hardships hard-ships of a man whose wife had inherited money and who yet could not enlarge iiis business because the wife kept her fortune in her own hands it was amusing to see wnitehaired Judge Noah Davis gallantly confront the woman lawyer and defend 1 I i against her own sex the complete rightfulness rightful-ness of a womans freedom Dr Kempin gets larger audiences for her lectures to women students than she does for those given to business and nonprofessional women I THE SEW YORK WOMANS TRESS CLUB Length of life seems to bo assurod to it now that Frohman has promised a big benefit ben-efit at which tho Kendals are to play and now that it has settled itself in cozy headquarters head-quarters whore it can drink a cup of tea Its hard to guarantee success to any fem inine enterprise when theres no flavor of the Chinese beverage Newspaper women multiply What reader fashion columns is unacquainted with the indefatigable Toilet writer whopossessos the most iri fallible knowledgeonthe absorbing topic D II J 2 > r of a nice complexion Who has not read I the interestingly bewildering articles of The House Decorator on how to furnish for 250 What a wailling and gnashing of j teeth goes on in divers and several ms n I sions when on the authority of this stern autocrat the fair mistress learns that her cast draped flower pots and milking ca-st ools are quite demode How could women exist without their weekly budget of gossip and gowns vide The Ladies Column 1 Who could describe the swell weddings the I i smart frocks of the last advertised actress the sweetest thing in bonnets save the chatty woman journalist Des Mrs A wish it to be chronicled that c the fashionable fashion-able Mrs B wearing her celebrated paruro of diamonds was present at Mrs As reception re-ception she sends a card of invitation toe th to-e newspaper woman Theatres concerts and dances cannot be attended by this important im-portant functionary in any mere heedless spirit of enjoyment Her watchful eyes are roving for piquant details to spice smart paragraph A witty anecdote or a good mot has for her the additional interest of possessing a market value She dreams of fads and wakes to dress newspaper hordes of Christmas dolls She does serious work honestly when she gets a chance and she is graphic and brilliant bril-liant as an interviewer GUIDING AND CHAPERONING I Here promises a permanent addition to the growing list of occupations for women f i t The bureau which was opened tentatively i in New York last winter has found work i enough on its hands so that it is now on I I the brink of resolving itself into a stock company and using its capital to fit up a I house and add to its functions some of those originated by the Ladies Guide association in Cockspur street London such as opening I open-ing dressing rooms to women from out of town who wish to array themselves for reception j or theatre and lodgings I to women traveling alone who are refused accommodation under the mediaeval regulations in vogue at some of the hotels The bureau finds one of its most successful features the sending out of women to assist timid entertainers in dinner serving WOMEN ONE SEES New York is tho place to meet people Just now one of its sights is Mrs Dorothy Stanley scuddine along at twilight on her husbands arm like a little frigate towed by a steamer They walk very rapidly as if bent on getting In thirty minutes an hours exercise Mrs Stanleys face is I sensitively expressive and one cant help I feeling quite sure she minds the rear guard I controversy much more than does tho explorer ex-plorer When Otero the now dancer appears on the street she carries in her arms as likely as not u Japanese puppy with nn expression expres-sion not quite so ugly as a pugs and a body like a white kitten Dog fads aro incomprehensible incom-prehensible These Japanese pugs bring from S150 to 1000 and the sale is brisk enough to have tempted women to breed them quietly if against the laws of hygiene in their bedrooms Mrs Kendalls seventeenyearold daugh I ter begins to be an ornament of drawing I rooms Sho is a sweet fair English girl charming to look at but without the self reliance of the Amertcan girl who has sometimes been trusted to walk five blocks alone I cues PALiinns DRESSMAKING One of the best amateur dressmakers in i Now York is the wife of Manager A M Palmer who doesnt pot many opportunities to indulge her taste Paris robes being suf ficiently abundant in her wardrobe It happened not long ago however that a lit tle friend richer in hope than in cash was on the eve of marriage and Mrs Palmer entered with a womans zeal into the ques tion of the trousseau cutting fitting and contriving every garment At the same time she was spending one night in every two or three watching at the bedside of a sick woman and demonstrating in half a dozen ways at once her possession of vital energy DDSTIJ |
