The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1893-04-21

Law School in 1891. She graduated with
high honors and now carries on sue.
lcessfuI business, occupying an office on
Pemberton Square with her husband,
who is also lawyer.
Mrs. Fall was born in Chelsea in 1855.
She is graduate of Boston University,
having received the degree of A. B. in
1888, and that of A. NJ. in 1884. At one
time she worked in printing Office on
Franklin street, and won for herself
much praise and credit in setting up the
type for DR.. Abbott's work on the Au-
thorship of the Gospel, book which
contained many difficult Greek phrases.
Mrs. Fall was married in September,
1884, and since then has lived in Maiden.
most of our women lawyers were led
to study in very peculiar and quite acct
dental ways" she said "Miss Mary A.
Green, who was the second woman adj
mitted to the Suffolk Bar, first thought
of stddying because she and her mother
wondered who would manage the money
affairs when her grandfather died, for he
was getting to be quite old. So she de-
cided that she had better study law and
try and learn something about business
matters
miss Smith, one of our women law
yers, was led to study while settling an
estate in the family. She was obliged to
consult with her lawyers a good deal,
and was much troubled to understand
the technical terms which they used as
freely as the simplest English. She
therefore determined to study law so
that she might be able to translate these
legal terms for other women. The law
yer uses these terms so much that he
seems to forget that others may not uu-
derstand him, and his clients are often
too proud to ask him to translate the
phrases which are so familiar to him.
People, especially women, are apt to feel
uncomfortable, too, when they are con-
fronted by the brisque, quick bearing
that many lawyer have. This is proba-
bly, due to the fact that many people
come IN whose business should take
about 10 minutes, but who think their
lawyer ought to take time to listen for
two whole hours to the entire family his
tory. In order to get rid of these people
LAWYERS often acquire way of dismiss
ing people in quick, short way, which
is unpleasant to woman. Miss Smith
experienced this feeling, and, often wish.
ing that she could go to woman law
yer, thought perhaps other women might
feel the same way, and so decided to
study law herself.
"Some women who study law do so
merely to make their education more
complete and broad. But nearly all
study with the intention to practice.
Most people seem to think that women
lawyers can do nothing but Office work.
This is quite false impression, for
women as well as men follow out all
branches of the profession. If they have
the duck propensity they paddle in the
water, and if they are more inclined like
the hen, they walk on the grass. Miss
Parker's is mostly probate work. Miss
Green does not practice law because
women are not yet admitted to the bar
in Rhode Island. But she spends most
of her time in lecturing to women and in
trying to interest them in their work.
She has lectured very successfully, espec-
tally in Lasell Seminary.
"Mrs. Kicker, who now makes her
home in Washington, is quite independ-
ent in her work. She says, in her
bresque matter-of-fact way, 'Oh, they
say I'm lazy. But when go into court
roo2 and see poor soul there that
think can help, why do what l can.
But l never take anything but criminal
cases, anyway, if can help it
my own cases have been mostly civil"
continued Mrs. Fall, "but / have been in
the court room a great deal. We women
cannot expect to win every case we un-
dertake. No man ever does that. And
yet when woman does lose a case, some
people point finger and say, oh, of
course she would lose the case; she's
womanr But the average man lawyer
wins one case and loses the next. If he
is above the average he wins more than
he loses, though he must lose some. If
he is below the average, of course, he
loses more than he wins. But why
should woman be expected to do so
much better than man, and not lose
any cases?
"There is one thing, however, that has
been remarkable, and that is the court
esy which women lawyers have always
received from men lawyers, judges and
everyone connected with the profession.
Everywhere we have received most re-
spectful and XII nd treatment, and in this
the work has been made very easy
Woman's C rner in Boston Journal.
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