St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-05


Gould gifls.never saw more than half
Of theirsfellew students, save at odd
intervals. The daughters of the late
seventy times millionaire were in
the morning class, and did not meet
with the evening class. Indeed, the
morning class, which contained
about forty members, was by far the
most exclusive and fashionable one.
The Gould girls-for everybody in
the woman's class was talking of
the girlish Anna and the sweet-faced.
serious Helen as 1.-The Gould girls
before they had been to half a dozen
lectures-had not entered until after
the term had begun. Their first ap-
pearance in Prof. RuSsel1's lecture
room had caused a notable f1utter.
1t had not been because all of the
fair students of the law knew either
Miss Helen Gould CIR Miss Anna
Gould by sight. 1t was because the
two quiet girls were accompanied
by a pretty retinue of fair and fash
ionable women, who seemed to be
pitching into the lore of law solely
for the purpose Of keeping Miss
Helen Gould company-it never did
seem as if Miss Anna really meant
to study law very hard.
Among the coterie of fair ones so
well known in society who came
in with the Gould girls were Mrs
j. P. Mum, who has long been one
of Helen Gould's dearest friends;
Mrs. Walter E. Hope, Mrs. John Nc
Clellan, Miss Sweetser, who is one
of the wealthy merchant family of
that name; the statuesque Miss
Pettus, whom every one in the class
soon began to designate as 1.-The new
woman because she was so pro-
nounced in her latest fashions and
fancies in dress, and was always in
the forefront Of everything in the
way of woman's progress, whether
it were in dress or thought or style;
Miss Gleason, Miss Crane and Miss
Wood
There was nothing like SETS in
the woman's law class, but if there
had been, these select and fash
ionable young women would have;
been known as the could set" AS
it was, they were the constant COM
panions of ''the Gomo gnIs''
The remarkable aptitude with
which Miss Helen Gould grasped the
fundamental principles of the law
made many of the directors of the
Woman's Legal Educational society
which founded and is the especial
patron of the woman's law class
earnestly wish that she may con-
tinue the study beyond the funda-
mental branches.
Miss Helen Gould has a compre-
hensive mind" said Mrs. Leonard
Weber, the president of the direct
ors, time and again. eff she would
only continue in this field she would
show the world what a woman
might accomplish in the law"
Others interested in the woman's
law class who were attracted to
Miss Helen Gould solely because of
her great progress, as was shown by
her answers to the "quizzes" which
Prof. Russell held every two weeks,
were Mrs. Anna c. Field, Mrs. F. A.
Greeley, Miss Marie Hamill, Mrs.
Alexander Forman, Miss Carolena
Morris Wood, DR.. Mary Putnam
jacob, Mrs. Abram S. Hewitt, Mrs.
H. Hermann, Mrs. Henry Dormitzer,
Mrs. j. D. Macdonald, Mrs. Theodore
Sutro, Mrs. Ralph L. Shainwald,
Mrs. Isaac F. Russell, Mrs. ]. T.
Linthicum, Miss Marcella Malone
and Miss Eleanor c. Clarke.
Prof. Russell himself, who is highly
pleased with Miss Helen Gould's prog
ress in the law, was averse to speak
ing of any of his pupils. personally
when Recorder reporter asked him
in his office in the Equitable building
yesterday to give the public some idea
as to how the Gould girls with the
fifteen millions of dollars each, had