The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-20
SOME SECRETS OF WOMEN.
Things n Now Legal Aid Association Fro
poses to Help to Conceal.


poses to Help to Conceal.
In the prospectus OF q legal aid association
which was organized q few months ago there
was a clause which excited some curiosity.
The prospectus said that the initiation fee for
members was 81 and the annual dues SO.
These payments entitled subscribers to certain
privileges. among which was that OF receiving
mail at the ofloes OF the association and having
the same redirected II desired" The manager
gives some interesting details in explanation
Of this clause;
"That privilege is for the accommodation Of
women who are doing work in order to have
a little money OF their own and who do not
want their husbands to know about II. You
would be amazed at the number OF apparently
well-to-do women who haven't a penny to
spend themselves. They have beautiful homes,
servants, horses and carriages, and credit at
the shops, but they hardly know what money
looks like. Their husbands pay the household
expenses and the shopping bills. but do not
give their wives q cent II they can help It. l
have known rich women to walk because they
didn't have Eve cents TO pay their car fare. As
for the price OF a matinee ticket or q luncheon.
why the street beggar could get It almost as
easily.
"Of course most women In those circum-
stances try to make a few dollars to help them
u Wv tiiCl a9boAAu WYNN w haAASuo A.
they knew 1t. know OF two women who mako
hsts a @0 %Ssn w the sW oman IA 81 bill I Is t sent to her
husband a gown is put down at, say. $50. In
the husband pays the $50 and the store alter
ward gives the woman the $40, Sometimes
they make two or three dollars on a friend, I
don't know tbS ,ri But the they do get s. the b difference s 6ei
t tSsf real i~ cost Rr Of the ego gown ny sH''f nu''An'' anu
Women often try to make a little money, in
less 9uestionable ways: Il they should write
envelopes at q dollar q thousand. OF, whatever
the pay Is, and the work. or even the answer
would be out. Oh. there are a great many in.
stanoes where 2 woman might not want letters
t6S gems 9sas d 5hTsSstio to d her oT3p lpstnn IS iny w5SeS not
Most OF the women who come conade their
~troubles to me. although there Is not, the
ness is simply to arrange foIa meeting between
them and one Of our lawyers. and they need
t the 'f tak @s so anEer.n ia Mncfsse t ali Pow over 'W WltS. a
sympathizing woman. for It hasn't grown TO be
sT @p an G1d story 81 S TO ms tha am 9 iass G ss @uS to
pledged to secrecy as a lawyer is. but many Of
the women who come are Inclined to fear all
eoasu It 'h a lawyer is1s out Why shat1 t ffiSyht6 nssd9
some people Who had stayed in the. same hotel
with her. l thought she might have known
sfsa f6 SSn s ssei and %,9 she} ln she soG ReE sans fsas ,
IN me; but it had precisely the opposite effect;
She was evidently afraid that l would tell
she hurried away. Heruneasiness was absurd.
The name Of a subscriber or even Of any one
who comes simply to inquire about the associ-
alton is never furnished to anybody unless by
the subscriber herself.
The payment OF the annual fee, you under
stand, does not 90 to the conduct of any case
whatever; 1t merely entities the subscriber to
consultation with q lawyer. in addition to the
every day OF the year which isn't a legal holi-
day 4 she finds 1t necessary. One Of the other
bate. So many women want to make q will,
and make it to suit, themselves. but II they did
SO With b the m knSSwl g E,r q their ta friends tbem milf lita
they destroyed or changed the viii. You
have no idea how some women are
lilies until they scarcely, dare to say their
souls are their own much less their property,
Know where to Keep it. The association will
take all, necessary measures to have a will
probated. and the document may be sealed up,
property and deposited with q trust company.
!; The .I IAN nrs es Of persons PEI %h9 are 5e. t9 be s, informed aotaed
on our books and notices are promptly sent to
them.
of advertising lost articles and mentioning the
offices OF the association as a place TO which
they may be returned We v i, also furnish to
the subscriber. but no name. This Is to be
carried in the pocketbook. On one side is
the association office with promise OF. a re-
ward on the other the request to notify the
1.-THE most common applications are from
women who have been swindled out Of their
money. Generally the swindlinG is done by
their relatives or persons who have posed as
their best friends. Women have q bad habit
OF signing their names to documents without
reading and comprehendinE what they are
agreeing to. That's the chief trouble. The
other is their readiness to turn their property
are absolutely In his power. We have about
200 members now. and have been organ
similar association among east side Germans
and that they have 10000 members. We think
ticable: In fact. this very association was in
existence almost two years as a private one.
organized by a number OF business women who
Ia that so many mon have come TO ask the priv
tleges. of the association that there is to be q
branch formed for them.n