Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-07-29
NzW HAVEN, CONN, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 20. 1893

has not availed to admit her to the bar un-
til after long continued struggle. Mrs
Bradwell, now editor of the best weekly
law journal in the country, having passed
the required examination, sought the aid
of the courts to secure her right to prac-
tice, but her case met only with unfavora-
BILE decisions in the highest court of I'LL
nois, and in the United States Supreme
court. A few years later the Legislature
| of Illinois passed an act permitting the ad-
mission of women to the bar, but Mrs
Bradwell, being fully engaged in editing
/ "The Chicago Legal Times" did not then
renew her demand. She probably felt that
another practising attorney was not need
ed in the family, since her husband, Judge
Bradwell, is one of the beat known mem
bers of the profession in Chicago; her son
| is a lawyer; her daughter was admitted to
| the bar in 1888, and her son-in-law, also a
| legal luminary, completes the circle of this
| law loving family. Mrs. Bradwell has re-
| Gently distinguished herself by publishing
the laws passed by the Legislature of I'LL
| nois in remarkably short time after they
| had been signed by the Governor. In FIVE
| days after the last sot was signed the vol
umes of session laws for 1898 were print
| cd, bound and ready for delivery. This
| celebrity seems very commendable when 1t
fs known that these laws often do not ap-
pear in a form readily accessible to the
profession until some mon-hs after they
were passed.
There is a remarkable law firm In Mil
waukee whose announcement reads:
"Pier, Mrs. Pier and the three Misses
Pier, Attorneys and Counsellors at Law;
Mrs. Kate Pier, U. S. SCourt Commissioner"
Mrs. Pier and her eldest daughter studied
law together at the Wisconsin State Uni
versity, and the younger daughters grsdu-
ated two years ago. By an act of Legisla-
ture Mrs. Pier was made Court Commits
sioner and 30 is entitled to sit among the
barristers, the first woman in the world to
take this position unless we except Shakes
pesre's "lsarned young DOCTOR" Portis.
1t is said that Miss Margaret Brint, of
Maryland, who once conducted case for
Lord Baltimore, is to be considered the
pioneer of American women lawyers. We
have little record of her and her work, and
this honor Is generally given to Arabella
Mansfield of Iowa, that State admitting her
to the bar in 1869, at the very time when
Mrs. Bradwell was unsuccessfully pleading
for the same privilege in Illinois. In the
next year Miss Barkalow of Brooklyn, N.
Y, was admitted to the bar in Missouri,
and after that one or two women each year
had the temerity to take up the study of
this GLORIOUS uncertainty" and to attempt
"
last ten years the number has greatly in
creased, and though the study of law may
never be as popular or seem as fitting for
women as is that of medicine, there will
doubtless be very many more who are at
tracted by Its very intricscies and difficult
ties.
Not only In America, but In many other
countries are women preparing themselves
for or already practising this profession.
,I1- oc
attorneys; in France Mile. Chauvin has
qualified for professorship in the French
University; DR.. Emile Kempin has an
appointment from the University of Berne
as tutor of Roman, English, American and
international law; and Mile. Bilcesco, the
Roumanisn girl who studied law for six
years in Paris, missing only one day, and
who took the highest rank in class of
five hundred men, is now practising at the
bar of Bucharest, her native city. She Is
the first and only woman doctor of laws in
Roumania. And there is even a woman
lawysx in the land of the Mikado Madame
Tel Seno was educated in America, but she
returned to her own country with heart
full of eager interest for the welfare of
women in Japan. She is actively follow
ing the duties of her chosen occupation,
principally in behalf of women, and she
has, moreover, founded a training school
for their benefit in which various trades
and practical arts are taught. q,
SCIENTIFIC COOKERY AT THE WORLDS FAIR.
Cookery as a fine art seems to be attract
ing almost universal interest, and deserv-
| edly 30, since upon food and tho assimila-
tion thereof, life, liberty and the pursuit
| of happiness, seem largely to depend.
Other arts, sciences and occupations seem
| to hinge upon it. If we are what we eat,
| then for our own comfort and for the hap
| piness of those about us, let us be fed with
| wholesome food, prepared upon scientific
| principles.
| Enlightened Massachusetts women at the
worlds fair are doing their best to show
| how sweet and wholesome inexpensive food
| may be when common sense is brought to
bear upon It's cooking. The demonstration
| Of scientific cookery is part of the good
old commemorative exhibit, in connection
| with the Bureau of Hygiene and Santa
| ton. Mrs. Ellen Richards, professor of
chemistry in the Massachusetts, Institute of
| Technology, is the responsible head of the
| exhibit, and the "Rumford Inn" where
the lunches are served Is in charge of Mics
Daniel, a lady in much request as lee
turer ard demonstrator of the theory of
economical and sanitary cooking.
1t was Mrs. Richards who with Mrs.
Abel, wife of Professor Abel of the Uni
versity of Michigan, who established in
Boston an experimental kitchen for the
appetizing preparation of the cheaper
| foods Their object was both educational
aud charitable. The food prepared is of
fered for sale to people in lodgings, and
to working people for luncheons, at prices
below the cost of private purchase and
preparation. This New England die
kitchen has proved success, as has ths
| one established upon similar principles II
New York city. At the Rumford Inn the
theory is illustrated and processes shown
A limited number of lunches are served at
, the lowest cost, and the daily menus con
, tain in addition to the names of the dishes
the analysis and food value of each article
Then, in the Woman's Building, wher
all other womanly industries iud place
: that artiet of the skillet, Mrs. Rorer, pre-
sides over free cooking class, mode
, kitchen and pantry. The state of 1llinoi
employees Mrs. Rorer to teach cookery +
3 | the visiting universe for six months. ant
0 her school room is called ''the corn kitch
g | en-" because corn is our great nations
, | production, (and national emblemD an
foreign peoples are much interested Il
o learning how we use this bountiful gift @
nature Every Friday morning is devote
to the making of corn breads, baked an
eaten on the spot. Mrs. Rorer hss nearl
three hundred recipes for the use of CORE
and upon these che rings the changes wit
all sorts of delightfully."- pslatsble results.
Possibly cooking will become fashior
able, and then those who now dislike
will find that 1T has joys and graces befor
undreamed Of ALI that will be necesssr
then will be to find come plea
ant way of securing pans and kettle
Cooking utensils are prone to stickinel
and general messiness, repellant to Il
sight and the touch of the gently bret
When dish washing loses its terrors tt
art of cooking will so much the more a.
vance. Cannot some one make this ali
an art and science, and throw lit
poetry about the dlshclotha HILARY.
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