The Colored citizen., 1894-10-01
Justice For the Summer Girl.

the dressing rocm. New York World
Justice For the summer Girl.
The American girl is showing her
amazing address and aptitude at thou
sand spots by the seaside and mountain
this summer, as in score Of summers
before.
As the summer GIRL" she has her
rattling fire of criticism to face, but the
astonishing thing is not that she makes
a few blunders in her social code or
shows too little restraints in her beha-
vior, but that she does not fall into
worse pitfalls and cast all restraint to
the winds.
OF the thousands and tens of thou
sands of American girls whose behavior
amazes and whose beauty charms by
every beach and on every hillside, the
great mass have seen little or nothing Of
any but the narrowest social conditions
in village, town or the restricted circle
Of small city house until they find
themselves in big hotel leading a 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 have to adjust code of
village behavior to gregarious condi-
tions and free contact which would be
trying to one of experience. They make
blunders and do much that is foolish,
but their blunders are for the most part
trivial and their folly mere playfulness
which rarely brings them into harm.
Yet If they understood how much re-
serve, restraint and rigorous self con-
troll do for woman in public and pri-
vate, how quickly II wins respect
which passes into admiration, and an
admiration which ripens into something
warmer, the American summer girl
would add the only charm she now
acks.-Philadelphia Press.
Women and the supreme Court.
GAS o matter of faot." says Once q
Week, although eight women now
have the right to practice before the
supreme court, no woman has ever
availed herself of that right in q prao-
tical way. The law admitting women to
supreme court practice was passed in
1879 and signed by President Hayes ON
the 10th of February. John M. Glover
Of Missouri introduced the bill In the
house Nov. 8, 1877. Benjamin Butler
reported il to the house from the COM
mittee Feb 81, 1878, and 1t passed the
house the same day. The vote was 189
to 81.
1.-THE law says that any woman who
shall have been 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
.ss..sn e. al have nave. maintained a good standing
before such courts, and who shall be
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, apd she
gave due rctice, and ON the Sd Of March,
1879, was !. United to the supreme
court bar.
"No other melber Of her sexxas al.
mitted to tbs supreme court for nearly
six years. Mra Laura DeForce Gordon
Of California was the next to apply.
She was admitted Feb Q, 1885. Then
followed Mrs. Ada Bittenbender Of Ne
braska Oct. 10, 1888; Mrs. Carrie B.
Kilgore of Pennsylvania Jan. 8. 1890;
Mrs Clara 8. Foltz of California March
4, 1890; Mrs. Leila R. Sawtelle of Mas
sachusetts April 8, 1890; Emma N
Gillett April 8, 1890, and Miss Kate
Kane Of Chicago May 26, $780,"