The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-01-05
WOMEN LAWYERS.
They Should Succeed, for They are
Always Good Pleaders.

Always Good Pleaders.
Time was-and not SO very long ago,
either-when woman doctor was
thought nearly akin to freak, yet so
rapid is the march of progress that the
physician of the fairer sex is regarded
with no wonder in these days, and her
name is legion. She swarms in every
town and village in the country, and if
seeking for novelties you must look out
side the field of medicine and surgery,
which women have invaded and, by
right of clever minds, steady nerves and
the Unborn ability to nurse the sick, have
proven that they are not only able to
cope with men, but in many cases are
vastly their superior. Law now attracts
the progressive women of the age, and
the legal luminaries must look to their
laurels, for the fair pieaders will proba-
bly, prove very potent when, with their
bright eyes, their woman's wit and wins
ming ways, they undertake to convince
jury that their way of thinking is the
only correct one. Women have no
trouble in pleading their case at home.
The high and mighty ruler of the house
hold succumbs without murmur when
the batteries of cajolery are turned fully
upon him and new bonnet or sealskin
jacket are most easily won. There may
be, of course, at first some natural tim
idity about speaking right out in public,
and it is to be feared that the genuine
womanly little body, no matter how well
she may know how to get around her
great six-foot husband, will never care
to take up a profession which will re-
quire her arguing in a crowded court
room. Some women of wealth are now
studying law merely to learn how to
meet on equal grounds their legal advi-
sars, who heretofore have obtained very
large fees for very small service, andwho
whea they find their clients well versed
in the knowledge of laws governing
property, will probably be greatly sur
prised and not little Disguised.
AS compared with the study of medi-
cine, the law is not nearly 80 difficult,
yet from a woman's standpoint the
former would seem to be much more in
teresting. Yet girl student, talking to
a reporter of New York paper, remark
ed that her calfskin books are far more
fascinating than novels, for there are
the subjects of SANDER, deceit, matri>
nony, divorce, master and servant, all
included in this delightful study. Be
that as it may, certain it is that the field
IF womans work is widening, and after
the dry arena ofthe law has been invad-
ed the question naturally arises, What
will she take up next?''
A young man, w. G. Holden by name,
claiming to be a minister, came to this
county short time ago and passed as
such for several weeks. He now lan>
cuisines behind the bars in Huntersville
Jail and his is a tale of Woe" He is of
slight build, about twenty years of age,
and claims to come from Harrison coun>
ty. At Split Rock he borrowed fine
owe coat from Mr.. Frank Hamilton
such as our merchants buy for their own
use when they go to Baltimore, and con-
tinued to have and to hold it undisturb-
ed. On Beaver Creek, ne borrowed q
horse of Mr.. John r. johnson and dis
appeared but the active, alert detective,
Robt. K Burns, ran him down beyond
White Sulpher, and made him yield up
possession of the horse, and taking him
into custody brought him to Hunters vile
where he was unable to shake off the
custody before Squire Grose and hence
is in durance vile. He does not talk
very lucidly nor give full account about
his taking, keeping, abstraeting and
cliuging to said personal property
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