The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-06

points calculated to be useful In the man.
agement OF everyG ~ affairs.
an association has been formed for the
purpose OF foanding a law school for
women The object of the school will not
oS 70 make women lawyers. though students
who wish to graduate as modern Portias
vail not be dissuaded: but the idea is rather
10 establish lecture courses for property
owning women, and to enable business
women, especially typewriters and steno-
BTAphers employed as clerks in law Offices
20 increase their efficiency by the acquisi-
tion OF practical legal knowledge
Dr. Emily kenpin, the first woman grad
uate from the University OF Zurich and the
only woman lawyer in New York, has been
giving law lectures to q class OF women
since last October, but the new project is to
get basis OF popular support wide enough
10 win the consent of the board of regents Of
the New York State University TO the in-
corporation Of school with a full law
faculty. There are already thirty-five APP
pllcatlons on file from womsl who wish to
he received as students. The late Chaneei-
lor Person supported the project, and
Chancellor Curtis is said to be equally
favorable.
At present it looks as il the plan would be
carried through. David Dudley Field
Daniel G. Thompson and other prominent
lawyers have committed themselves to it.
Mrs. NJ Louise Thomas, Dr. Mary Putnam
Jacob, Mrs. Jenny June Croly, Miss Mary
+. Seymour, editor of the Business
Romans Journal. Mrs. Jennings Demo-
rest and great number of womel are
backing it. Clark Bell, the president
OF the Medico Legal Society and ex-Judge
Davis have expressed willingness to be-
come members of the faculty.
DIR. Emily kempin, who will be at the
head of the school, should it be started. de-
hvered parlor lecture the other day. She
is blonde with blue eyes and light brown
hair. She is a trihe above middle hight
and Of slender figure. Her face is one of
sweetness and intelligence, and as her
hearers dubbed over with amusement while
she told them of the two bouquets that were
sent round TO Swiss neighbors on the birth
OF boy while one was enough to announce
girls entrance into this vale of tears, it
could be noticed that her English vocabu-
larly was full though her accent was
piquantly foreign Nine. Kempin is the
wife OF Presbyterian clergyman and has
three bright children.
W0MEN'S HEROES AND MEMS HE RoINES.
Over a cup of tea book reviewer waxed
confidential, aud gave me what he regards
as an infalllble test OF an anonymous novel,
whether it be the work of a woman or a
man. The crucial point is the treatment of
hero. Heroines count for less, because
the woman has become sort of classic in
fiction, and is handled according to much
the same rules by writers. masculine
and feminine. But the man who Is
describing hero gets on terms of
familiar friendship with him after the
introduction, and calls him Jones' or
Brown" while woman is apt to stand on
ceremony and "Mr." him from the first
chapter to the conclusion. A womans hero
is nearly always a large man and she insists
on his virlle qualities. A man can conceive
a small hero and one who Is not muscular,
for it is necessary TO his self-re ;pect to rec
ognize in himself some heroic traits, though
he bear not the faintast resemblance TO the
Vikings. But a woman revels in bignesS
and Drawn, and the admiring touches with
which she rounds out her portrait of mans
physical projections are almost invariably
noticeable.
MISS GRACE DODGE AND THE WORKING
GIRLS CONVENTION.
Miss Grace H. Dodge is Just now one of
the busiest women in New York, and her
coy study is strewn with evidences that the
first convention of the associations of work
ing girls societies is close at hand The
New York, Boston and Brooklyn associa-
lions, and the Philadelphia New Century
Working Women's Guild unite to hold the
convention whose sessions will begin on
April 10, and will demonstrate the wonder
full growth among self-supporting girls of
the club idea. Delegates are expec ed from
many of the factory towns of New Eng
land, Pittsburg and Allegheny City, from
New Bruins wick and Baltimore. There are
co-ordinated clubs in Chicago and otner
western cities. but the members cannot
leave their tasks for so long journey
There are seventeen working girls societies
in New York city, and tweve In Brooklyn.
The membership In the metropolitan dis
trict is not less than $500.
The doings of the clubs are easily stated,
except that the whole list would be too
long. They run evening classes in branches
ranging from spelling and cooking to litera-
ture, Accomplishments and language; some
of them keep up libraries, gymnasiums aud
parlors; they have women sphysicians to
counsel them on health topics and two "holi-
day houses" on Long Island for summer va
cations. They have Resolve clubs and Lend
a-Hend bands which work for others, and
once week in the Thlrty-eighth Street
Club are held practical talks which help
the girls to make the most of themselves
These Tuesday evenings, when tbs girls
meet in their own club house with Miss
Dodge are wonderfully CHEEKY occasions.
The bright faced girls sing with shining eyes
Still be lievng hoping, loving, now from day
to day
We together through lifes shadows strive to
find the way.
We believe that living holds for us no good
Greater than the glory of our wonanhood.
And it is belief in tue possibilities of
womanhood that forms the clubs heart and
soul 1t would do pessimist good TO see
how completely the working girls are leav-
ing behind them that phase OF feminine his
tory in which women were proud of being
helpless in body and mind: they have got
pretty well through the succeeding stage in
which they have been used to lament such
feebleness, but accept il as inevitable aud
are coming rapidly to the higher ideal, to
the realization that it is not only as good
but as grand thing to be woman as to
be man.
You will nowhere find quicker wits than
among the working girls. One evening re-
Gently the question was asked, what is a
club! One girl wrote instantly, her scrap
of paper folded on her knee: "A club is
second home. a place to know yourself and
others, too" Again. the question was:
Toward what is our club teldingF And
again came the quick answers, Toward
making bright homes and brighter chill
dren." Toward energy, culture, hope,
pleasure, renewal Of interest III each
other.n Sorosis and the other women's