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Rh  only a part of her time at study. She sails for the "Dark Continent" of Africa sometime during this spring, 1893. May her example serve as a stimulus to others of her race and sex, that they may make similar marks of 'distinction in this noble profession! She carries with her our hearty good wishes and our "Godspeed" in the good work of her mission. She will, no doubt, join in with the large number of her brethren (who are successfully practicing medicine all over this Southland) in sustaining the reputation of her Alma Mater, which has done so much for the negro in medicine. We again assert that the practice of medicine by woman does not necessarily rob her of any of those good feminine traits of character.

The dense darkness which for six thousand years has enveloped woman's intellectual life is rapidly disappearing before the rays of modern civilization. Advanced public sentiment says, "Let there be light," and there is light, but it is not that of a brilliant noonday; rather is it the brightness of a rising sun, destined to flood the world with glory.

There are still many who, while advocating female education to a certain point, decry the necessity and the