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Show WOMAN'S WORLD. THE SULTAN OF TURKEY GIVES WOMEN WOM-EN PHYSICIANS A CHANCE. Only One of Its Kind Miss Bayard's Court Dress Etiquette of the Wedding Two Practical Women Women Physicians a Success A Xew York Woman Skipper. The dominions of the Ottoman porte offer a field for the women physicians. The Bultan of Turkey has just promulgated promul-gated a firman by virtue of which women wom-en can hereafter practice medicine in Turkey upon presentation of their diplomas. diplo-mas. Some persons may be surprised tc learn that this news has a political importance im-portance of the first order. Undoubtedly Undoubted-ly the issuing of the decree is due primarily pri-marily to the unwillingness of the Mussulmans Mus-sulmans to allow a male physician to enter en-ter their harems. This is permitted only in cases of exceptional gravity after old women who are thought to me magicians or sorcerers have flauiaeiheir efforts. At the same, tlrne PaysiciaiJ are highly respected an . Ven vener. by the Turks and fteneAv 7 all rfientals. As, however, itVi'' only qir-'cently that Turks have begcrn to tVvrnedi-cine, tVvrnedi-cine, nearly all the physician a , ixainly all those of much reputation in Turkey have been and are Christims of that country Greeks, Armenia; is, Levantines, Levant-ines, as well as French, Jlnglish and Italians. It is easy to forese 3 that women wom-en doctors from foreign co untries will have a brilliant future in Turkey and will exercise an immense : nfluence in Turkish families. The sex o f these physicians phy-sicians will afford them frc a access to harems. As Turkish womer have very little elementary education (and live a very retired life, they are easilly governed by persons who are better edk"ed than themselves. r The woman physician in ctriu0fta-tients ctriu0fta-tients cannot fail to have greltt influence over their ideas as to dress, riiode of life, usages and customs, their serial and political po-litical notions. It is quite likely that in the course of some years a si 5w but certain cer-tain transformation will be effected in Turkish women, who will nat arally wish to imitate the life of their C iristian sisters sis-ters in Europe. For the praci ice of medicine med-icine in Turkey there la nojniired a national diploma, aa in Ffi After having finished his or her studies, no matter where, the physician Uiae only to present his or her diploma ai id pass at the Imperial School of Medic ine a short examination, which is a mere formality. C. Chryssaphides in Paris K evue Blue. Only One of Its Kind . A club which bears the prcrad distinction distinc-tion of being the only one of i is kind has just been established in 'Washington. Eligibility to membership is a bility to do independent work of some sor ; a definition defini-tion which does not apply to women merely holding clerkships, The title of the organization is the Business Woman's club, and its inauguration inaugu-ration has been attended with a success that has far outstripped the. most sanr, guine expectations of its founders. It was thought that 50 members could be had, and that number would warrant the club's existence, but it is found that there are close upon 200 women Eligible to membership, and this notwiihstanding its restrictions. I And how successful 'mmercial woman of Washington cl& " be gath' ered from the fact fi 0,l j present membership there arffx-.XUor ten who make every jear out of their own occupation occu-pation more than a congressman's Ealary and a few twice as much. The organization has a suit of rooms down town at 60G Eleventh street, N. f W., tastefully fitted, much of the decora- I Tions oeing uotie uy me mum uers, me water colors and artistic photographs being the work of club artists. Here it is designed members may drop in for a gossip and a cup of tea between business appointments. The officers of the club are: President, Mrs. E. S. Mussey; first vice president, Dr. Clara Bliss Hinds; second vice president, presi-dent, Miss Edith Wescott; secretary, Miss C. M. Flemming; treasurer, Miss' Grace M. Thomas; board of governors. Miss Amy C. Levitt, Mrs. H. D. Payn, Mrs. J. Heap, Miss De Shase and Miss Marie Louise Carusi. Washington Letter. Sneezing Out the Wedding Party. The Rev. R. S. Hawker, in the course Of some reminiscences of an aged friend of his, quotes an anecdote which this friend, himself a clergyman, was fond of telling. It is about a rcarriage cere-I cere-I mouy and a pinch of snuff, and in the 1 narrator's own language runs thus: "It was always the custom in those days for a clergyman after the marriage to salute the bride first before any other person. Well, it was so that I had just married a very buxom, rosy young lady, and when it was over I proceeded to observe the usual ceremony. But I had just taken an enormous finger and thumbful of snuff. So no sooner had the bride received my kiss and I gave her a smart kiss for her good looks than she began to sneeze. The bridegroom kissed her, of course, and he began also. Then the 'best man' advanced to the privilege. Better he hadn't, for he began be-gan to sneeze awfully, and by and by the bridesmaids also, for they were all kissed in turn, till the whole party went sneezing down the aisle, and the last thing I heard outside the church was 'Tchu, tchu, tchul' till the noise was drowned by tho bells from the tower. " 'aindcu Tit-Bits. |