NEWS BY MAIL

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1921, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL

— WOMAN DOCTOR’S POVERTY

PARIS, March 20

11 Don’t ask me if 1 am a feminist. 1 have been too much exploited by women,” says Aline. Madeline Tires, the first woman in France to qualify as a doctor of medicine. For nearlv 50 years she treated women, pud children. The Empress Eugenie took a personal interest in her. Once well off, she is now at 82 blind and in poverty with a municipal pension of £4 a month. Her father was a blacksmith, and she qualified as a doctor at 37 after being married at 16 to a man of 30. Her experience, she says, has been that rich women employed every device to avoid paying for her attendance.

BAD FOR. BLONDES. NEAV YORK, Jan. 20. American men with blonde wives oi sweethearts are advised to compel them, if they become too temperamental, to wear dark glasses. . . The author of the advice is Dr R. C. Augustine, president of the American Optometrie Association, which, ht its annual convention at Chicago yesterday indulged in a scientific discussion on the rival attractions of blondes hud brunette s. Tlie conclusion arrived at was that the American climate is not suitable for blondes. ‘‘Tlie glaring sunlight, said Dr Augustine, “irritates their nerves.”

HYDROPHOBIA DEATH. PARIS, Jan. 20. A rare case of hydrophobia was revealed in Paris yesterday when Mine. Gissler, a Dutch woman, died as a result of having been bitten by a mad dog eight months ago. After the bite i me. Gissler was immediately treated at the Pasteur Institute, and altogether leceived 25 injections of serum. At the Pasteur Institute it was state, to-day that such cases of death after treatment are extremely rare. Not more than two patients in 1000 have been known to die.