The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1916, Page 5

THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1916. “Golden Age” of Woman Ts Just Beginning, Says One Who Has Been a Doctor 50 Years axes tix, Prejudice Against Entrance of Women Into Profes- sions Is Dying, Declares Dr. Comfort, Telling How Sneers and Jeers of Masculine Fellow- Students Half a Century Ago Caused Her to Take Vow Never to Wed. By Nixola Greeley-Smith, time will be remembered as the beginning of the said Dr. Anua Manning Comfort to me. Dr. Com- t veek her jubilee as a physician and at a luncheon] |, . her honor by the faculty and trustees of the New York Medical College Hospital for Women physi-| ! ‘ ans of both sexes in this city gathered to do her| “In history thi Bolden age of woman fort celebrated last eiven‘in honor, Just fifty years ago Dr. Comfort, then Anna Man- ning, attended a@ clinic at Bellevue Hospital with fifteen other young women. Of the fifteen, only two finished | * course. Dr. Comfort told me yesterday that she as rarely able to reach her classroom on her own feet; that male students, their chivalry outraged by her! 4 temerity in undertaking the unwomanly study of medi- cine, pushed and shoved and rushed her and her fel-| subjected them to the grossest insults. “You women to whom all the nues of to-day are open do not grasp what the pioneers | } had to endure,” the physician told me. “Once a nude man, not a@ lecture subject but a discharged patient, was brought into the classroom to dis-| # concert us. Even the professors insulted us. And fellow students hurled | # Questions at us of the most shocking, the most unspeakable nature. | —ii low women an Ay Even after fifty ye brave. Sa @ray-haired Dr ed to} You resented and what the same, ; be fluttered with a charming Vic-|type resents to-day was the fact! § torlan flutter by the recollection of|/that your presence beside them | the outrages in the class room minimized their she had endured “Really, my r he exclaimed, |!mportance to you as MEN, You did} “1 despair of 1 a woman born|not pay them the tribute of sex) into this happier time ur reticence, of that hypocrisy of | thought and conduct which some of them still regard as the homage due| H |to man from woman. A certain type At this p 1 could not resist say-| forgives everything to a woman ex-| tng an enlightening word on the en-| cept she forgets all about the fact of couragement offered to wo yet, all about his. professions to-day. “From s remember it when I said, to-day inf sopled with # bil. meet us in the « tt alf HUMAN BEINGS and persecutions, you who uragement and appre- extent of our have only enc ciation from 1m) te ANNA MANNING ComPort ven in the sox—worse how can sh men," | Y t r the world is Lut eve lion and at you describe,” What those who insulted ‘one MAN—perhaps not e one, uns | | loss she That ist still,’ Dr. Comfort “perhaps it will always exist. But think of how many fleld doo! women and t were barr © When r icine 1 underte At that time we | to do less than Phese were domestic work, making, millinery, 1 shopkeeping jand the inferior grades of teaching. |In the professions there resses and the women writers, cause writing Was more or less se- cluded. There were no newspaper women, no women ntors, no women Why. be- lawyers, no women inventors. I remember reading a few you Petticoats are here that there were then 161 ASHION has brought professions trades of Ww ‘ enumerated the census. Contrast the petticoat back to that figure with less than six when I give the wide ait hy was a girl, To-day we have won oper support and bouf- everything but the ballot, 4t seems fact effect That feces to me, and we shall get that. When I graduated—I was on! Henry Ward Beecher youngest medical twenty, and dT was the graduate in the Heatherbloom Petticoats with twice the wear world—women had at one-third the cost of over their children; silk petticoats. control their own ings. They were playthings of men no guardianship they could not Y or earn- Is and the See the new Spring A My aunt, Dr 6 Lozler, |} Heatherbloom creations founded the’ New York Medteal Col. at all good stores. lege and Hospital , . Dr, Comfort contin woman to pra nedicine in New | Vork City. I lived with attending lectures at Bellevue. day of graduation the one other wom. rst Insist Upon the Heatherbloom Label Making Grape-Nuts honest whole wheat flour and malted barley are blended, made into dough, moulded into loaves, and baked. The loaves are then sliced and baked a second time—in all about twenty hours of thorough baking. pe-Nuts possesses all the rich, nourishing elements of the grains, including the vit neral salts so necessary for vigorous mental and physical activity. Many foc { ck these essential clements—especially is this true of white bread and white flou | oducts, because in making flour white most of the energizing mineral salts of? srain are thrown out in the milling process. j * th Grape-Nuts it is different, for all the nutriment of the grain is retained. ae long baking renders the food easily and quickly digestible. ways ready to serve direct from its sanitary, tight-sealed carton, Grape-Nuts is ‘orm of granules of tendér crispness that have a delicious, nut-like flavor. Four onfuls of Grape-Nuts with a little cream alongside is a splendid, well-balanced f any meal and gives a wonderful return in sturdy brain, nerve and muscle. *“‘There’s a Reason” Grocers everywhere sell Grape-Nuts. were act- | . Mrs. Jan who stuck it out seized my hand and sald: ‘Anna, you and T know men for what they are. After what they! |have made us suffer let us vow that ] We shall never be lured into marria with one of these gross and terrible | bein, ' I vowed the vow with her, | But I broke it and she kept it, and I Jdon't think she ever quite forgave me. After graduation she went West and did rough surgery in a mining town. She wrote me only half in jest t she Was never So happy as when dis- 'mombering men. After I married she wrote me one letter of reproach and then dr 1 me because I hi |kept the faith, But my marria he inspiration and sulace of my 1 My husband, George Fiske Comfort, Was the princ GJ ropolitan Museum of Art. He w up its charter and worked unceasing- ly at Alban it Was assured to the city. E the Fine Arts University, In co in Amer- too. W helped each ¢ anchor. It should be anchor, and is so when adop tives of m \then I found my_ babie «pidly in the thers, dis und, And ny tant © ciety le rounds lin’ those on all their ine |numera’ frank thing or drew @ sincere ath. T Jcould not stand it, I told my hus- |band that wanted to gy [w ork, He said, * You know it was J work and’ your sp) drew me to ye d our incomes. children, and ton back to my r yourself. eof your urage that name for Comfort added ve two distinet in America ily, "I 'tendencies among w ‘to-day? One toware ment and responsibiliy jard luxury, Some aeom to believe |me in w my wife and I drudged t the housework and t} plotted and schemed to g day Lam worth $4,000,000, We have a town house an house at Newport But I rarely see my children, The are always rushing off to Bu ; the boys have their own friends. There is never a dinner at which the family sits down, And when is to be any big soolal funct at the house my wife one of the girls says, We have suct thing on for to-night. You wear, do you? ‘The tr and daughter are ash. and such a hat man's experience ts the ex | perience of thousands of « men are the workers |their work 1s rewarded. by |tempt of the q hee, fi | they strive ung men tell don't dare to met mar at con jtempt of the marriage elef in its obligations, ampant among the young women of day. ‘The p xiris can make more by w © thar they can by marrying. 7 won't live up thelr well paid § » sh }with a man urver thar their own, 1 git |fathers have won for Yet tr seventy yea lite learned that the only thing w & for !4 struggle «lor TO ARREST FOR FIGHT FILMS to Federal authorities} expect arrest five men to-day avainst whom indictments were found by a Grand Jury in Syracuse on cha nspiracy in. cor pre moving f Jou f tion o} aw of July, 31, 1 ting t importation of prize fght pictures Warrants against the Indicted persons reached Dist t Att ay and he expect erve them to- | dey. ‘The names of the defendants will not be made public uoull tuea, Marshall yes Vo | fift 1! Riderg in the Spanish-American War ae | : S- | J ite wan tn dapan and Manchuria due-y PENROSE ADMITS DOUBT. | t ' k wwoyear imo and) Se One to Opp oo Wileon Hae Cee | many times and ba caped pun. | Pent 2 | Jishment as a spy He returned to| mnt tha fn Wa ‘ this countr tien the | th " L) t i] Plattsburgh camp last summer, where | 4 aching nati “a M4 he wa conspicuously ne of thele " i | —--- | Mr. Davis was first martied to Miss we af : | : Aiiatc Ve ao [Cell Clark, daughter of J. M. Clark, pinion, putite: \ it Albert G. Wheeler Jr., WHO] a: wealthy Chicagoan 90, In| may be Ace - Was Pursued in Union | 12 they were divorced, and he was) top th hie bi M rats | married quietly to Miss McCoy soon La € he , League, May Rest a While. | atterward. They tind one child, Hope, | ye SRY ane vt tls tine in any sia —— fitte months d t 1 wher obnow After invading the exclusive Union ek” Davie, as hin frienda KNOW | Cero dna nage ne Weak ie ne ten | League Club in an effort to have her | Bim had nusual number of | w re generis lermne 1 meee - | friends Those who did not know him r by Repu ane bi husband, Albert Gallatin Wheeler Jt] won talked of his “uppishness,” but |< aie jarrested on the charge of non-pay-| closer acquaintances have hundreds | ment of alimony, Mra, Claudia Cartes-|of stories to tell of his mousntta | low to Save | |tedt Wheeler, formerly an actress, is | {0d enthusiastic helpfulness to young | nen : th eon | Writers, his quick and tender sym Y E jtovday in bed threatened with seri-| iathy for men and women in trouble our tyes ous illness ind his generous appreciation of good work in others. ——————_—_ her hushand proved too Wheeler, ciouain| BROOKLYN MAN, VICTIM | [Girl in the toy tienes she bt) OF TRAIN STABBING, DIES a ie eT jrecovered from a severe attack of | pneumonia when she joined her at- torney, J, J, Goldstein, and Deputy | | aH He Sucmuiibe Sheriff Jollus Browner to serve the| When He Succumt {warrant on Mr. Wheeler The former | The excitement of the chase after | much for Try this Free Prescription who as Fiancee With William BE. Luke to Wound Received in (Quarrel Over Seat. actress and her attor-! ALLENTOWN, Pa, April 12 ney caught a glimpse of Mr. Wheeler, | witiam E, Luke, twenty-four years but that wae all, F outran his ft 1d, of Brooklyn, civil engineer (n the and her companions through the halls employ of the Central Railroad of of the Union League Club Now Jersey, wh the night of | March 11, was doin the abdg. men at South Bethle With Luke at the was Missy Marian Drysdale of Brook- his fancer nership of whic RH. DAVIS DROPS DEADIN HS HOME velously | eff Now that delay a day. eves ve one of whom stabbed Luke, in prison, (Continued from First Page.) | = Stern Brothers 42nd and 43rd Streets, West of hth Avenue |he wrote “Gallagher,” a short story || | aout a newspaper office boy, which | tarted his fame, The Van Bibber i tales of the adventures of a rich young New York clubman, made ||| the demand for his work so great ||| that he devoted himself altogether to ||| ‘Action and the publishers, in com. ||| petition for his work, raised their rates of payment until he was one of ‘the two or three highest paid fletion ||Ii| writers in this country. Several || years ago he refused an offer of $1,250 cach for a series of short |!|) stories, saying as easy |! |) |and much more profitable to make his plots into novels. HE HAD WRITTEN MANY S$uc. ||/|| CESSFUL NOVELS, Among the novels he wrote, at the | rate of about one a year for nearly n years, were “Capt. Macklin,” Folly.” “The Bar Anis: ter,” a derfully sympathe dog | story; Shidiers of Fortun and Vera, the Medium.’ Some of his plays were made over stories, it was almost “Ranson’s from his books. “The Dictator,” tn ||| aithneg ( A | which Wille Collier and Jack Barry- wine . Rss more played, is perhaps the best re. , 3 ae a ES membered, “The Gulloper” was || ULinsal * , LS re another. Lately he had tried his ||| - - Davis returned from his second visit ||||/ | to the French front und a trip to |||l/ 2 Ci Saloniki Fob. 6 last. 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