Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — The Girl Dentist. [ARTICLE]

The Girl Dentist.

The girl sat next the woman at the Hungry club. She was very quiet, demure and smartly dressed. “Do you write or paint or what?” the woman asked her. “I’m a dentist,” replied the girl. The woman looked at her with renewed interest. “I didn’t know there were girl dentists in New York,” she | said. “Yes,” replied the girl, “there are many of them. Perhaps you don’t know them because we never put our girl names on the signs. We just put ‘Dr. So and So,’ because if they saw that we were women they might be afraid to come in, afraid we were no good. Once they get in they like us and come back again. We have to overcome some prejudice against our sex in all business, but particularly, I think, in ours. And I don’t Ynow why, either. Why shouldn’t a woman fill a tooth as well as a man? Oh, yes, I can pull them, too, without batting an eye. I don’t faint at the sight of blood or at causing pain any more than a man does. That is,” reflectively, “not any more.” —New York Press.