for which she finds a ready
sale. The number of women who have supported their families
(often including the husband), and acquired a competency in
boarding and lodging-house keeping, dressmaking, millinery,
type-setting, painting, fancy work, stock-dealing, and even in
manufacturing and mercantile pursuits, is legion.

In regard to the position of women in medicine, Miss Elizabeth
Sargent, M. D., writes:

Women are admitted on equal terms with men to the medical
and dental departments of the State University, and to the
Cooper Medical College of San Francisco. Women are also
eligible to membership in the State and various county
medical associations, as well as in the dental association.
There are in the State 73 women who have been recognized by
the authorities as qualified to practice. They may be
classified as follows: Practitioners of regular medicine,
30, 16 of whom are established in San Francisco; eclectics,
22, 9 in San Francisco; homoeopathists, 21, 2 in San
Francisco. Among these physicians two make a specialty of
the eye and ear, one in San Francisco and one in San Jose.
Two women have been graduated from the State Dental College,
located in San Francisco. In April, 1875, the Pacific
Dispensary Hospital for women and children was founded by
women. In 1881 a training-school for nurses was added. The
hospital department, although admitting women, is intended
especially for children, and is the only children's hospital
on the coast. The dispensary is for out-patients, both women
and children. The board of ten directors, the resident and
attending physicians of the hospital, and five out of the
seven connected with the dispensary are women. From a small
beginning the institution has increased to importance, and
bids fair to continue in its present prosperity and capacity
for good work. I have written thus lengthily that you may
see how energetic our women have been in originating and
carrying on such an institution.

The most prominent literary woman of the coast is undoubtedly
Miss M. W. Shinn. She is a graduate of our State University and
was the medal scholar of her class. At present she is