TRIBUNE INSTITUTE - WORLD - OF WOMEN - FASHIONS TRIBUNE INSTITUTE WORLD Mît» îUlttfc Qfrtkwxt OF WOMEN - FASHIONS PART VI FOUR PAGES SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1918 PART VI FOUR PAGES CLEARING HOUSE FOR WOMEN PHYSICIANS' WAR WORK oy NINA CARTER MARBOURG the first group of women to leave the United without office or 637 Madison Avenue are the offices States from the association. Dr. Stevens now leaving her home during the to Be established in thesj areas. These womei. ." the American Women's Hospitals, writes from Aisle, Cazeruede, Luxemburg, war, if she so desires. speak German, Hungarian or Turkish, are of A an association that her work is with the five hun¬ For instance, there are three hundred woman undoubted loyalty to the United States, and organized by the War chiefly dentists in Service Committee of the Medical Women's dred refugee children in this section, and they the United States who, for the last will be of especial value in such cases. two and a ..' Association, were near enough the firing line at the time half months, have been donating This association has even gone so far as t« their services to the government. The chair¬ have in readiness f] ; American Women's of her letter to see many aeroplanes and to equipment for hospitals that Hospitals is unique man of this committee. Dr. De Lam be rai respects, but first of all it is the hear the boom of the cannon. Kinney, may established here for the care of only has been devoting many hours each day to convalescent cases of men returning from the United State» that is a clearing Dr. Keys and Dr. Flood, of Buffalo, who putting the teeth of soldiers in condition. Dr. war. There is a committee on r all women who sailed at the same time, report that they have army hospitals physicians may Kinney has done much dentistry at the in the home zone, of which Dr. Almira willing to do war service either been sent to the devastated regions of Serbia. Smith, Army General Hospital No. 1 for the thou¬ of Boston, is chairman. In Boston two hos¬ :¦ abroad. So has the move- Dr. Ethel Heard spent some time in Paris in a quietly sands of soldiers going into camp and abroad, pitals are in readiness for convalescent cases. carried forward laboratory doing X-ray work and has now that little is known and it is in such work that the three hundred The Women's General of New of medical circles of the work been assigned to the hospital in Chalon-sur- Army Hospital splendid woman dentists are assisting. York has its personnel and re¬ -. -< men are Marne, where she is doing obstetrical work equipment doing Then there are the members of soldiers' corded in the War in association was and also is in charge of the machine. Department Washington Tl formed shortly after X-ray families who need attention. The type of They have been told by Surgeon General the return of Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton Dr. Bancroft has been assigned to a clinic in who has Dr. person been used to going to the Gorgas that they will be notified when thi i from ranee and Serbia, where her notable Paris; Helen Woodruff has charge of a clinic is not included clinic in the Latin under this head, but is needed and that it has the same status ai services were recognized by a decoration pre- Quarter, while Dr. Esther those who have been accustomed to Blair has been held in to private other army hospitals in the home zone. This sent« ;. the Serbian government. When in Paris report on in¬ attention and find their funds too low to be stitutions for defective and then is equipment is ready when it is needed and mav Bur« Dr. Morton was so impressed with children, able to afford proper medical attendance are be set wherever the site is to be sent to a devastated to recon¬ up selected by the ivities of the Scottish Women's Hos- region do looked after those women who struction duty. Drs. and Florence by physicians government. and the British Medical Women tha'J Dorothy are listed in the division for the care of de¬ The American Women's is Child, of Philadelphia, are in Avion clin¬ Hospitals work¬ -mined to form an association along doing pendants of soldiers. This problem has been ing constantly in close connection with the As a result the American ical and hospital work. Wom- solved by enlisting the aid of the women in Red Cross, which sends to them for names has been So these women sail in or sin¬ riospitals organized, with the away groups thirty-eight states who are willing to give at and credentials of woman physicians and asks of as are to on the Surgeon General of the Army gly they requisitioned carry least an hour a day gratuitously or for art for women in every branch of service that has :" medical work on Dr. Richard Pearce. director general the other side. There is not especially small and considerate "soldier's to do with medical science.and they get what of t partment of military relief of tlv.? a branch in the medical profession in which rate." In the majority of cases no fee is they ask for. women are not an Red Cross. engaged, and the list that the accepted. the woman who have American Women's Among physicians At the present time there are thirty-two Hospitals has of physicians One line of work that is decidedly important, sailed are those, who have such im to sail is occupied pi y cians and ten lay workers who ready extremely comprehensive. but which does not come much to the notice of portant posts as Dr. Blair, of Pittsburgh, resi¬ But this no means ailed under the auspices of the Ameri¬ is by the extent of the the public, is done in the clinical laboratories. dent in charge of the Children's of activities of the A. W. for Hospital can Women's Hospitals and under the direc¬ H., the committee, The chairman of this committee, Dr. Martha Staten Island and for sixteen years superin¬ tion of the Red Cross. Those who attended whose chairman is Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Wollstein, of New York, has formed a com¬ tendent of the women's wards of the Dix- ¦- leaves no stone unturned to extern! sailings .»'. steamers on October 14 and 22, Morton, mittee of the leading woman pathologists mont Hospital for the Insane; Dr. Nevin. a November L¡ and 1«>. December 15, and Febru¬ their services to any place where they are throughout the United States. These women well-known bacteriologist, sailed with her two ary 9 ana 17 may have seen the uniformed needed. It was through the American Wom¬ are recommended for service as bacteriolo¬ sons, who are in the ambulance Dr. en's that the corps; physicians sailing from the A. W. H. to Hospitals first travelling labora¬ gists, pathologists and labortary technicians. Ethel Heard, of Galveston, Tex., for sevei» at the üed Cross headquarters in Paris. tory was fitted out. to go to stricken Serbia, Fifteen requests have come to the American years in charge of the pathological laboratory At the present time there are two thousand where it will be of inestimable value, inas¬ Women's Hospitals to supply as many bacte¬ of the John Sealy Hospital, of the Teachers' ians registered as ready to do war much as there arc no base hospitals in that riologists for zones surrounding cantonments Hospital of the University of Texas, and Dr. er here or abroad, and in consider¬ country, and the laboratory can follow up the and camps, and recently the word has come Esther Parker, of Cornell, who was the examin¬ ing our duties across the water this associa- army and do work vyherever needed. Mrs. from Washington that only women will bo ing physician and medical adviser to the not forgotten the United States, for Frederick Ferris Thompson aided in financing sent abroad for this service. The Red Cros^ women of Cornell and vice-president of the constantly there are coming in requests for the laboratory, but it was cleared through has undertaken to guard the food and water Tompkins Medical Society. ians in different parts of this country. the A. W. H. supply of these districts, and as a result a Such is the farreaching work at home and the two women Recently the American Women's Hospitals All of thousand who have great deal of this laboratory work must be. abroad of the women connected with the Amer ed a call for a physician to serve as registered for medical service during the war done. ican Women's Hospitals. al exa iner of the women working in are not able to go abroad, some by reason of As the internment of the enemy aliens in When they sail from America they do not know their save age, others on account of duties,.and the United States if destination, that, they land in k I. du Font de N'emours Company's family increases, especially they France and in Paris to the Red Cross still others are not report plant at Carney's Point. Pcnn. Also the Ohio physically strong enough are interned with their families, the physi¬ Headquarters. From the Red Cross they may Valle;- Hospital at Wheeling, W. Va., has sent to endure the strain. But for these women cians of this association may be called on to be sent to any part of Europe where their ten internes. These have been who remain at home work has been planned. work in those zones. The plan has been services are most needed. Sometimes a groun sent more woman or dentist in the formed and can be into active is out, but frequently they go singly t] lied. Every physician put operation to do their work in the devastated regions of Marion Stevens, dentist, sailed with F'nited States may do her '"bit" for humanity in twenty-four hours to send out physicians any of the invaded countries.
ELENE FOSTER By "NOBODY " chronicles the events of the town bearing on LQÎ/FS A FA\f'MAN! the at Bronxville?" I can hear the ...-«. subject, gives the latest messages from TO THE NEW VOTERS a of 1 " Dicks'ville and Washington and prints number of war pie 'sville, which have ;. as read this title. Are you a woman living in Congressional District 21 or 22»in Manhattan or 7 or 8 recipes been tried and found satis¬ irry'sl they ' ^Qnt , the scenario of which was written It is army discipline in urgical committees follow out same of cam¬ dinners or who one work. The Red the line of tea. who gives six-course pro¬ Mr. Haff, the principal of the Bronxville by a Bronxville <-¦ .-..-¦ but the result of month's Cross "woman, and I think we can rt only to the spirit but. when it comes to in touch vide/ salad and ice creams for her club in Bronxville in many more paign, getting bridge school. Thanks to Mr. Haff that school is a safely affirm that "the that the circus camr> Mt ¦'-¦¦ ¦-. well. If Mr. Hoover says drive gathered day number of and these perfect hotbed of patriotism, and it is per¬ to town" will seern like a on not a scrap than ¡ts allotted recruits, London Sunday com¬ Tuesday, last in its brick school- fectly evident that no child who imbibes that pared with the .. < market on included every pupil big excitement that will thrill g of tl B on: ville atmosphere for five hours every is to -. so that the school has been by day going Bronxville when that is shown for the ;¦ -.- more, e idea of using house, accepted picture Cross as an associate branch. sit calmly by and see even the least important first time in its own "Movie Palace." left over beef on T-a: day and going the Red Every is over to Re«l Cross of our war food laws broken or ignored in h!s The scenario tells the story of a wasteful on e it more Fridas afternoon given meat Wednesday, becau own family. Mr. IlafF's latest scheme was the servant who no Hie work, the pupils choosing whatever kind of work gave thought to thrift or upporter. in Bronx' issuing on the ! 2th of of thrift economy until she receives a letter from her v. ish :<>