The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-07-10

twelve years successful practice at the bar
OF California, cana to this city two years
ago and opened Offices lis chiefly due to the
fact that they have been inundated by the
ll-concealed often rude opposition of the legal
fraternity; The New York bar is extremely
conservative, often to the verge of rudeness.
Its women lawyers. happily, unlike TOO many
OF its men, cannot forget their birth and
breeding. consequently they shrink from the
tendency of their brothers at law to regard
them as freaks. rather than their mental
equals. When a woman takes an office and
talIs to make the rent, wiseacres shake their
women
Who pays the rent of the boards of kinder
garten lawyers while they are making political
connections and charging their acquain-
tances? Some mother sister old aunt,
some member Of that incompetent sex whom
they would scoTn to meet equal footing
in the courts; women in many instances who
have forgotten more law than the kinder
GARNER VIII ever know. | advise every wom
an VINO has academic training, strong analyt-
ical mind and natural bent for the law
to study and practice it. My progress from
the outset has been challenged at every STEP
The position Of the woman lawyer today 8
exactly that of the woman physician twenty
five years ago. She who enters the profess
sion must expect the rebuffs of the pioneer.
She must put on her war paint and light to
the end if she hopes to VIM
FROM TYPEWRITER TO LAWYER
Miss Lavina Lally took her degree in the
New York university law school, which is
so often enormously confounded with the
Woman's Law class. She was admitted to
practice last year. She is reputed to be
the only woman who is succeeding in build
ing up regular and profitable practice. She
was practically reared in the law. Employed
ct an early age as stenographer and typewriter
in a large law firm, she prepared papers
in the most important cases, without knowing
their true legal significance. This mechani-
Cal preliminary training was invaluable when
she finally entered the university. Scarce
ly had she been admitted to practice when
the firm with which she had long been
associated dissolved Its clients were chiefly
wealthy corporations In settling up the
affairs of the firm it discovered that
she was the only person who had intimate
knowledge of the cases involved. In this
manner she is virtually stepping into a prac-
tice that she herself unconsciously made. De-
spite that she is making the law pay, and
her future seems promising. Miss Lally does
not hesitate to say: L wouldn't encourage
any woman to enter the practice of the law
for livelihood. There are other things ia
life more desirable to a woman Of sensibility
than money, and they are not to be had
in the practice of the law. Experience has
taught me that it is to the interests of my
clients to employ masculine proxy rather
than to appear in person and be referred to
as the lady, instead of the counsel in the
case
There is no titled field in law for wom-
men," said Resale Loew. All lies faIlow.
She must put her hand to the plough, sow
the SEED and wait the harvest. l think her
chances @: success are about a par with
those of men. If she has the elements of
success, she will succeed; ii not, she will
fail, just as hundreds of men do every year."
Miss Loew is the assistant attorney of
the Legal Aid society of which Carl Schurz
is the attorney. She is cited among the legal
fraternity as the only woman who is max
ing money" This impeachment Miss Loew
at is because men lawyers encounter me
oftener in the courts than other women law
yers, that they fancy am making money.
am employed on a salary, which prohibits
me from accepting fees from the clients
serve. 1t is valuable experience in a GER
tain point. but quite different from setting up
an Office on my own account and waiting for
clients or going out in the highways in pur-
suit os them"
Another graduate Of the New York uni
versity law school who recently appeared in
the supreme court is Miss C. Annette Fiske.
Interest in patents led her to the study of
the law. Some women lawyers maintain that
the criminal court is beyond their pale, but
makes woman emenable to the criminal
court it is the woman lawyers right and
duty to defend her. Rich in New England
tenacity, Miss Fiske has entered the arena
TO light her way to recognition.
1t is well for the young woman contemplate
ing Law as livelihood to note that in almost
every instance where women are successful
they have had more or less association with
the mechanism and the routine of legal prac-
tice before taking it up as breadwinner.
Speaking of the Fronde the womans paper
published In Paris, whose editor was inclined
20 fall into lire with others against the
United States but was obliged to turn and
print our side on account of the pressure
brought to bear by the other women, a
writer in the Bazar says it lives in one of
the most attractive homes for newspaper
in the world. IAN old-fashioned house in
fitted up in what is called here Ia mode an
glaise. which means largely with liberty
Etuffs and maple furniture. One enters into
charming sort of loggia. OF court. the