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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF WOMEN PHYSICIANS. Proceedings of the international conference of women physicians. 6v $3; ea 75c Womans press 613
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The proceedings of a conference held under the auspices of the National board of the Y. M. C. A. in New York city, Sept. 17–Oct. 25, 1919. “The conference met in response to a conscious need on the part of the women physicians in America for free discussion of those problems that relate to the maintaining and improving of health by education and other constructive means.... The word ‘health,’ was to be taken in its fullest sense as meaning the well-being of the entire personality.” (Preface) The proceedings, issued in six volumes, contain the addresses of distinguished physicians and specialists, men as well as women, bearing on all aspects of the subjects of health of women and children, sex and marriage, social morality, etc. The six volumes are devoted to: General problems of health; Industrial health; The health of the child; Moral codes and personality; Adaptation of the individual to life; Conservation of the health of women in marriage.
“Both the physician and the layman can profitably read these discussions.”
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IRWIN, FLORENCE. Poor dear Theodora! *$1.75 (2c) Putnam
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Theodora has race but no money. Her genteel family has all the pride of their poverty and Theodora shocks them by breaking away to earn her own living. She goes through a variety of experiences from companion to an invalid old lady and mother’s helper in a feminist’s household to war-worker. She has been dismissed from her first position because the old lady suspects her favorite nephew of being in love with her. She becomes engaged to a “newly rich” philanderer and breaks it off before it is too late. At last true love “will out” like murder and the old lady receives her with open arms. Incidentally the book abounds in reflections on current opinions, tendencies and fads.