The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-05-21
THE GREAT WOMAN LAWYER.
AS Described by One ofHer Own Sex
Mary Climmer, in Gin, Commercial
BELVA LOCKWOOD,

BELNA LOCK GOD,
In the face of every mans prejudice, save
LAWYER Riddles. on Monday admitted to the
Bar of the Supreme Court, to-day was admit
ted to practice law before the United States
Court OF Claims. Belva Lockwood is a tall,
rather noblv-built woman, sereuely moving on
toward fifty, | should say. II one may Judge
bv aspect She is certainly not sensitive
looking woman. nor does she look coarse. Her
hair j. turning gray, her brow is broad and high,
her ewes dark. her skin ruddy. She dresses
rather richly, and in a suit OF black velvet,
which Softens aud retines her tone, looks hand
some She was an houored and beloved wife
till her husband. DIR. Lockwood, died year or
two ago. She Is the mother OF at least one
son. She lives in 4 substantial brick block on
+ street and no house in the row looks more
thrifty and homcike than the one whose cur
tanned windows, full OF plants, bears conspic-
ouslv this sign: "Belva Lockwood, Attorney
and Counselor ut Law
Whatever Won may think of her taste, you
will own that she Is brave woman. Who
but a brave woman would have carried her
briefs into the presence of those bald, be
gowned old fcsic-, of Supreme Judges-the
the bravest OF women, who, when the man
with the tremendous neck and the allmentIve
iaw-the Chief Justice said: "Gou are Il
woman; YOU can't come in here with us as a
LAWYER" calmly said, Il WILL In Just one
wear size did Well, | am glad she did. l
couldn't be Il lawyer if | tried. woman
with bag full OF briefs sitting among men
LAWYERS is a sufficient marvel to be 70 main
tain nv patent for femininity. but if she is a
LAWYER. and Belya Lockwood Is very highly
educated and successful one, why should a
man with big ea.s. a big neck and tremend-
Gus Jaw tell her that she can not come in,
solely because she i a woman. He did not
this time, because he could not. BelVa Lock
wood elsewhere had encountered men whose
necks and Jaws We're less troublesome, whose
larger more enlightened franchise had opened
10 the lady with her bag of briefs the inexora-
BILE bar ii the Supreme Court.
1t seems to me tliat big jaws have gobbled
little ones that precedent has blocked the way
of progress quite long enough ahd as the old
earth AT the last Is doomed To fly apart into
ten thousand meteors, according To Professor
Vaugha, LEI MS make the most of ourselves,
though we happen 70 be worms, while it lasts,
and let no big Jaw bow WOW and try to hinder
You aren't very much though you happen to
be man.
just now Belva Lockwood probably feels as
complacent as the Boston damsel who recently,
under very wise and proper restrictions, has
become a Harvard student 1T last, after wait
ing two hundred and forty years.
George DoWnings sister is avenged. Har-
ward College was founded because Lucy Down
ing wanted to educate her son. To do so she
mt her daughters out 10 service, aad took their
wages to help educate their brother she llVed
DpprlV and mealiIN neTSSli lpt tue SdliAS Siih-
Through her influence with her brother. Gov
ernor Winthrop. the General Court OF Boston,
voted 600 10 establish a college at Camb bridge.
r., I64O second on the last OF its first gradual
inc class was the name al Ger9e Downing,
nenhew of Governor Winthrop, and son OF
Lucy Downing.
This youth will be a baronet-a great man
10 fight under Cromwell, to be "turncoat
nnder the Stuarts. Yet, when his mother,
who had pinehed herself and made his sisters
servants to educate him, when, at the age OF
seventv-three. she asked him for money ne
snnbbed her and refused it. Then she wrote
- her sister whom she put out to service Tor
his sake: 4Yeur brother George has bought
another-toarn, but more your brother George
will not hear of Tor me. tie says that IL Is
III covetousness that makes me ask ioE
more" .,l..h.. c.oo-ra
Dowp;pq was not worth all that it cost sever
~ - .s~,,e2 III life and Retye 10 educate him.
Ve, even Lucy Downing slave though she was
70 the caste OF sex, that distant day hnlided
De'''i MARY GLENNER-