The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-01-07
WOMEN UNkIND
TO n WOMAN
Miss Adeline F. Gillette s Am
bition Blasted by Them.
Refined, intellectual and Anxious to
Practice Law, she Is Barred by
women's Vaccinations.

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Sweeter. fairer maid in all Fitchburg than
Miss Adeline +. Gillette. She is credit
10 her sex ana the place where she has
lived from childhood. AT least, that is
what the men say of her,, She is refined
and deHcate and intellectual.
Left . helpless orphan at an early age,
she has earned herr own livelihood by the
hardest kind oil work, yet she has found
time TO study law, and would he pFarticing
today were IL not that other women of the
city say nay TO her laudable ambition.
They win not say anything against her
character, these good daughters of the early
Puritans. You cannot get a woman in all
Fitclhurg to declare Miss Gillette is not a
good girl Yet they attack her by inference,
and t,iat is the cruelest kind of attack, for
a. Ieaves her no opportunity of defense. or
such are the ways of women, good Chris
tian women, in the Fitchburg OF today.
Eight years ago, when Miss Gillette,
girl of sixteen, was thrown upon her own
resources. she turned TO Judge Hayden,
a friend Of he pa rents, for protection and
assistance.
II do not want charity" she said, but
simply a cha nee 10 work"
II guess we can Xix that said the
judge. who admired her spirit. So he
made her clerk in his office and gave
her d home in his house.
Judge Hayden soon found that he had
made mo mistake. As soon as she had
learned the pace Miss Gillette became
the best clerk ia ms office. She was trust
worthy, painstaking and exact. She was
not content with being mere copyist,
bat studied the books and began to get
familiar with the authorities. She was
SION able TO prepare brief that was a
model and she won reputation fol the
way in winch she drew up legal docu-
ments OF all kinds. At last she entered
into a five yeats contract with her en-
ployer, who feared lest he might lose her
ValIIa bic services She was thus pro-
vided with home. at Judge Hayden's
and received same compensation besides.
Three wears ago Judge Haydens wife
left him, and secured a divorce on the
ground OF cruel and abusive treatment.
TIE case was not contested Miss Gil
lette continued to live at his house,
ami this. AZ is believed, is what aroused
tire rancor OF the good women Of Fitch
burg.
Last November, having mastered the
rudiments of the law far better than
niue-teutns of the students OF the law
Schools. Miss Gillette was examined
for the bar. The news went forth, and
the women OF the city, wives and mothers
OF lawyers. and judges aud clergymen,
many OF them personal friends OF Mrs.
Hayden. tierla red she must not be admitted.
II would he slur upon the citys good
name. they declared.
For a month the young woman was
kept in ignorance OF her fate. Just he
fore Chnstmas-as If to add refinement
OF cruelty t. the blow, the county examin-
ers informed her she was denied adnlis-
sion.
After while IL hecame known that
petiti ION had heen circulated among the
women OF Fitchburg, asking that she he
denied admission TO the bar. Ii received
many signatures. Mrs. z. F. Hartwen,
president OF the wonian's Club Of Fitch
burg, who has taken an active part in
the crusade, SAYS it is not the action of
any particular club, but of the women
OF Fitchhurg as whole. There is now
tdhh " q iitdSS iitcctllE VI ACiitei 10 TAXI
action against the young aspirant for
legal donors. Judge Hayden saws If such
a meeting rs held action VIII lie taken
against every woman part icipa ting i'm II.
Miss Gillette has many friends, who
say The action against her is as unde-
served a. it is cruel. She is engaged to
be married TO a young man now in Lon
don, and it was her intention. If she re-
ceived a sheepSkin, 10 move to Boston and
practice in that city.
Miss Gillette is said to he a cousin OF
the actor and dramatist, William Gil
lette. She has written several juvenile
books of interest. Her hobby is the care
OF abandoned cats.
Among the societies which have act
lively discussed the matter are the W. C.
+. T.. Sorosts, the Wonan's Relief Corps.