The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-07

ladies' have yet applied for these partial or
special courses for property wners or bust
LESS women, but eleven young women de-
sire to bee me full-fedged a@yers. Three of
these budding Portals are New Workers,
two co re from Brooklyn, one each from
w aShngton, Connecticut and Canada, and
the rest from the interior of n York
state. All of them are full of enthu ,iasm
for the bar. One Brooklyn woman de-
clares that she has waited four years for a
chance to study law, and one country girl
who is afraid her parents will interpose a
veto protests that people are so stupid in
our village"
For two years now women have been
eligible to practice at the bar Of New York,
and the new law school will give them a
two years course ba ed rather on foreign
university methods than on American mod
els. Each year will be divided into two
terms, and degrees will be conferred on those
VINO pass the examinations, which will be
conducted by prominent lawyers Mime.
ke,npln has received promises of as sistance
from experienced members of the New
ork bar, who will lectu on the law Of
procedure, SANDER and libel, criminal law
and other special features of jurisprudence.
When families are fairly back IRON the
country and married women and widows
VINO Int d only to take courses of lectures
Tor the SAX OF getting legal knowledge on
some special subjects being to apply she
means to give a series of talks on the law
OF family relations, the law of real estate,
mortgages and leases, landlord and tenant,
the law of contracts, the drawing of wills
and such matters as NAV enable women
VINO own property 10 handle it wit lout get
ting cheated, and women who earn their
own hviugs to fl themselves for places of
trust and responsibility.
And wha5 futu is there I asked her.
for your graduates at the barF'
"a bright one. The younger LAWYERS
are quite liberal. Why. Mr. - here" and
she turned with bright smile to young
sprlg OF the law who was admitted last
week and who was her vis-a-yis
esteem it a privilege to practice
with a lady lawyer" Mr.. - looks en-
barrassed. Am mistaken" This with
frank, still smiling appeal Mr.. -
blushes furiously but stammers:
Certainly, believe in lady LAWYERS
some OF the young women who will
enter the law school come from the ia miles
OF lawyers They mean when they grad
uate to enter tue Off :es of father. brother.
husband or uncle as clerks in arge. where
their feminine neatness and methodical
haolts, Joined with legal education. will
make them Invaluable. Others, of course,
mean to set up offices of their own, a ID as
the number of women LAWYERS increases
and they cease to be objects of curiosity,
their chances will improve for max ng
good incomes. There are four women law.
yers in Boston now, and every one of them
does better, SO l told, than Leila ].
Robinson, who was the pioneer, did when q,
Sue had the field all alone. Women doc
tors had the same experience Practice
grew as their numbers mulbiplied -
But people even Of liberal views do not
believe there is any such need of women
lawyers as OF women physicians
Let me tell you a story, While was
lawyers clerk in Zuricn a woman asked
me TO rec )mmend Ter a LAWYER. | sent
ner to NY employer, but he sent her back il
short time to me- lie could noJ listen to
The story she had to tell she wanted
divorce, and the details of the treatment she
had suffered were sucu that she found it
absolu ely impossible to relate them to a
man, and the man found it impossible to
questio or to hear. could not myself
discuss the case with her, It was too bad
to be talked about even between two
women. took such facts as she could
bring herself to utter, and drew up tue
plea. AS was not ad nitted to the bar,
gave the plea to my employer and ne read
it IN court exactly as | had written it.
Before he d finished the manuscript two
white-haired judges left the room in tears.
Iney could not hear 1t through. the
woman won her divorce, ana as 1t was
known that it was really my case it was
esteemed great triumph for lady law
yer.
Gases of this sort ought to con vince peo-
pie That women lawyers have call. When
there are horrible things tnat must
be said women have a nice tact
to make the meaning plain
and yet avoid anything blunt or shocking.
Many cases come up in court which ought
to be handled by men above the age of 20
or by women"
''Do you believe that women will become
crimi al lawyersr
Certainly; enterprising women will like
that field. As for their getting cases, sup
pose 1t was known In any neighborhood that
such and such n woman was a lawyer aud
a clever one, and suppose that there was a
woma 10 be defended, don't you suppose
she would go TO the lady lawyrn
"Will women succeed with juriesf'
why notl They have a good deal Of
intuitlve knowledge of human ma ure, aud
are supposed to have much experience IN
testing the motives which win appeal 10