The Living Present

case of panurgy that would have been

h her history and her personality highly interesting, and her experience no doubt will be a severe shock to ma

to me naively that she had coquetted a good deal. As her brother was a doctor and brought his friends to the house it was natural that she should marry into the same profession; and as she continued to meet many doctors a

of an old disease, asked her why she did not study medicine. She had ampl

connection and circle of friends in that provincial town where standards

husband, being a man of first-rate ability and

me apartment with the usual number of servants; Madame Pertat's life was made up of a round of dressmakers, bridge, calls during the daytime, and companion

said to her husband: "This is abominable. I cannot stand this life. I shall

he talks of including the degree of baccalaureate in the regular school course of women, lest they should wish to study for a profes

irst and only child into the world; but finally graduated with the highest honor

came. Men disappeared from their usual haunts like mist. It was as if the towns turned over and emptied their men on to the ancient battlefield

ecision. Without any formalities she stepped into her husband's practice as a matter of course. On the second day of the war she ordered out his runa

military age had been called out. Of course her record in the hospitals was well known, not only to the profe

ice of her own, specializing in skin diseases and facial blemishes. She could never be idle again, and if it had not been for the brooding shadow of war and

of old carved furniture and objets d'art, for she had always been a collector. Her most conspicuous treasure is a rare and valuable Russian censer of chased silver. This was on the Ge

re still at the Front; and the same rule applies to doctors who are stationed in Paris but are in Government service. The women are having a magnificent inning, and whether they will be as magnanimous as