Rock Island Argus., 1894-08-25
Justice For the summer Girl.

Justice For the Summer Girl.
1Gs American girl is showing her
amazii g address and aptitude at thou
sand spots by the seaside and mountain
this summer, rs in q score of summers
before.
AS the summer girl" she has her
rattleAg fire Of criticism to face, but the
astonishing thing is not that she makes
few blundcrs III her social code OF
shows too little restrain,s in her beha-
vior. but that she does Cot fall into
worse pitfalls and cast all restraint to
the winds
Of the thousands and tens of thou
sands of American girls whose behavior
anazes and whose beauty charms by
every beach and on every hillside, the
great mass have seen little or nothing of
any but the uarrowest social conditions
in village, town or the restricted circle
Of a small city house until they find
themselves ii big hotel leading life
Of unmitigated publicity and living in
the midst of strangers.
Most of these girls have had no social
experience. Their mothers have had as
little. Their men folk are away. On
the instant they lave TO adjust a code Of
village behavior to gregarious condi-
tlons and free contact which would be
trying to one of experience. They make
blunders and do much that is foolish,
but their biunders are for the most part
trivial and their folly mere playfulnoss
which rarely brings them into harm.
Yet If they understood how much re-
serve, restraint and rigorous self con-
troll do foc woman i'll public and pri-
Nate, how quickly it wins respect
which passes into admiration, and an
admiration which ripcns into something
warmer, the American summer girl
would add the only charm she now
lacks. s.-Philacelphia Press.
WoGner and the Supreme Court.
"As a matter of fact" says Once a
Week, although eight women now
have the right to practice before the
supreme court, no woman has ever
availed herself of that right in a prac-
tical way. The law admitting women to
supreme court practice was passed in
1879 and signed by President Hayes on
the 18th of February. John n. Glover
Of Missouri introduced the bill in the
house Nov. 5, 1877. Benjamin Butler
reported it to the house from the COM
mittee Feb. 81, 1878, and it passed the
house the same day. The vote was l69
to 81.
1.-The law says that amy woman who
shall have been 4 member of the highest
court of any state or territory or Of the
supreme court of the District of Colum-
bia for the space of three years and
shall have maintained good standing
before such courts, and who shall be q
person of good moral character, shall,
on notice and the production of such
record, be admitted to practice before
the supreme court Of the United States.
Mrs Lockwood was eligible immediate
ly after the passage Of the law, and she
gave due notice, and on the Sd of March,
1879, was admitted to the supreme
court bar.
mo other member of her sex was ad-
| mltted to the supreme court for nearly
six years. Mrs. Laura DeForce Gordon
Of California was the next to apply.
She was admitted Feb. 9, 1885. Then
followed Mrs. Ada Bittenbender of Ne
braska Oct. 10, 1883; Mrs. Carrie B.
Kilgore OF Pennsylvania Jan. &, 1890;
Mrs. Clara S. Foltz of California March
4. 1890; irs. Leila r. Sawtelle of Mas
sachusetts April s, 1890; Emma NJ.
Gillett April 6, 1890, and Miss Kate
Kane Of Chicago May 26, $780,"