The Brookhaven leader., 1884-06-26
A Woman Lawyer.

She came with VIII r., 4 snap. con
E"iouSnr, 5 and self assertion that 1t
ono" was r. sort If challenge to battle.
{, woman. vr,mag' purt YOU know
that me dsv YOU SUI cod in MAXIM
>oldiec 81 Yourself vou will have io ijgh:
for every inch OF ground lou get in
stead oi having the whole earth given
you, as il Is nov,
She ran around among the chairs
and tables and men like little
speckled hen that ha lost her last lit
tie chicken.
Then she fiuttcrel down beside the
clerk, slammed down some books and
saving Il am here to make n speech
this morning. proceeded 10 unroll pa
pers and write furiouSly.
The committee was not vet in session
and in conversation with member
incidentally remarked that we had in
early da, S coined gold in Oregon. She
shot up, and not even deigning to look
ON me. she shouted: And that in the
face of the Constitution. which saws:
no State shall coin money or issue bills
of credit Then the head dropped
the def hand flew and the pen ratified
over the paper.
The chairman called to order, the
lady lawyer was at once on her feet,
and, shouting out her purpose to be
heard on the momentous Mormon
question, on motion of some one. tif.
teen minutes were allotted for heI
speech. Catching up her books. bag
aud manuscript, fastening to the fan
end of the room, she took position just
ander the fox and rattleSnake, and,
laying down the papers. she crossed
her pretty hands and looked ut us tran
gully, triumphantly, Il long time under
her gold-rimmed glasses. This woman,
famous in the annals of this city,
standing there with folded hands, under
she ferocious fox of Oregon, had it all
her own way at once. She was pretty
to begin with. No bangs, no frizzcS,
no foolishness at all in her dress or adj
dress. Her heavy gray hair was
lcombed back in the old, chaste fashion
and showed splendid brow and fine,
earnest face. All leaned forward and
listened eagerly as she began, and a
she went on for the first few minutes.
Her English. her articulation. her elo
cution all seemed perfect. doubt il
any man in Congress could use
better language or use it with
more gra e and precision. For
the first fifteen minutes no man
moved or spoke, but at twenty
about, to blunder She had forgotten
her piece. And then, poor dear she
had undertaken to settle the whole stu
pendous Mormon question, the morality
and immortality of it; to eXpound
the Constitution, compare Con
,gress to King George, all in
fifteen minutes! No wonder she got
beyond her depth Men got impatient:
they began to talk; some giggled a. she
scared and scared to her final appeal
and got so high that she melted the way
of her winds and fell to the ground there
snder the gentle rattlcsnake and the
.ferocious fox of the far-of Oregon. Evi
IDENTITY the old member, who had NUT
tered something not complimentary "a
size first entered, was, like myself, think
ing of Rome; for, as she gathered up
her papers after forty minutes Of able
defense of the Mormons, and fluttcred
10 her seat, he settled back and said to
himself. Great Cesar
As faithful chronicler OF unique
things here at our cOuntry's capital, !
am free to admit that there are many
men, myself among the number, who
could not have made, to save theil
lives, such a speech. The on'y rea.
trouble about it all was in not knowing
when to stop. At the end of the TWEEN
,ty-tive minutes the chairman had to
call her to order She. woman-like,
wanted to have the last word. She was
allowed five minutes more, and took
fifteen minutes to end.-JoaYuin Htiier,
itn Washington Post.