The Savannah morning news., 1902-08-31

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Miss Amy Astor, prominently identi-
fled with the womans movement
throughout the country, has this to
say about the members of her sex now
engaged in practice at the bar of Bos-
| ton:
There are a number of women law
| yers in Boston who have been very
successful in special lines of practice,
such as conveyancing, probate and
| corporation law, but l do not consider
| specialization essential to success in
| the practice of law. I take everything
that comes along and 1t seems to come
along all the time. l have been prac-
ticing law for the last eight years and
during that time have had general
practice.
cit is hardly time yet to institute
| comparisons that can be considered
| valuable, because there are not enough
of US who have been practicing law
long enough to allow a fair COMPARE
son to be made. Miss Bridges, who
has an office here, has been in practice
for two years, but has enough to do.
Among the women lawyers who have
specialized is Miss Alline Marcy, who
is engaged in conveyancing and exam
ing titles for the Metropolitan water
board. She has fine position.
"Of course, some things are open to
| men lawyers that are not open to wo-
| men, and vice versa, there are things
open to women that are not open to
| men.
81 don't find that I am handicapped
| in the practice of the law because 1
am a woman. l go into court and try
anything 1 have to try. tried di
vorce case in Middlesex county not
long ago, and / tried two cases within
l Of q Hn1fcCinr tn "a
bar and have been trying cases ever
since.
I'm one way women have the adj
vantage of men in practicing law
they have the confidence of women.
have women coming in to see me all
the time. Some of them come from
Cape Cod and some of them from the
western part of the state, and they all
express their pleasure in finding that
| they can come to a woman to protect
| their cases for them. Property laws
are becoming so aIneliorated that wo-
men of means are enabled to handle
their own property with more free
dom than formerly, and these women
are putting their business into the
hands of women lawyers. Up to 1878.
when the law was changed, married
women had very little to say or do
with property. The law of 1902, equal
izing property rights in deceased
spouses' estates, has widened the scope
and increased the power of women
over property. Then, too, more women
are going into business than formerly
and they are employing women law
yers.
When years ago a juvenile magazine
offered two prizes for the best stories
written by a child under ~ and by
one between the ages of IL and IS,
Frank r. Stockton competed for the
latter prize and his sister Louise for
the former and both children succeed
ed in writing the best stories in both
groups. But the editor of the maya
zine did not much like the idea of
giving his two prizes to the members
of one family. He was afraid it would
be said that the winners were relatives
or intimate friends of his So he wrote
to Louise, and told her that hers was
the best story in the under IL years
group but, nevertheless, he would not
; give a prize to her, because if he did
1t would make talk and he would be
accused of Partially. Frank got his
J prize, but some one else got the little
girls. Miss Louise Stockton, who lives
| in West Philadelphia, often tells this
story, which taught her, she says, her
first lesson in the worlds injustice, and
which showed her how out of this in
Justice men profit and women suffer.
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Because women are not conscious of
their powers is given as the main rea-
son why they are paid less than men
for doing equal work, why they are
willing to take less and why they are
satisfied with less. They are willing to
start at the bottom of the ladder as
we all are with anything untried, and
even when they find out their true
worth congenial work often takes the
place of higher pay.
Their work means more to them
than 1t does to men and the emolu-
ment means less. Women are softer
than men. The difference between
them is like that between linen and
silk. Linen has the strength of mas
culinity, silk has the delicacy, the
grace, the fineness of feminity.
Women, says the Chicago Chronicle,
are better economists than men: they
can live on less and are used to little
sacrifices that would simply be i'm
possible with men. And often in large
families, where two or three women
! support the entire number. the family
is cared for on far less than II their
brothers or fathers or husbands were
! providers.
Women are oftentimes less satisfac-
tory than men because they cannot
sink self. cannot lose sight Of their
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they are simply SO many pairs of
hands or so many heads.
Then, too, although women are Of
ten more patient and more accurate
than men, they have not the same
staying qualities. 1t is physically i'm
possible for woman to be evenly
continuous in her work for any length
of time. For example: Take a man and
a woman and start them evenly upon
days work. BY IL or IL o'clock the
woman will have outstripped the man,
but the last half of the day she will
lag sadly behind, while the man will
be evenly good throughout the entire
eight hours.
| Women are more nervous, more Civ
en- to brilliant spurts than to steady
work.
Formerly girls training was inva-
marriage or for position as a school
| teacher. The sons of the family were
| prepared for a career. They were to
have a place in the body polite. But
+, the daughters were their fathers pets,
and beyond that they dared not go.
For my part I consider that woman
stupid, indeed, who cannot be a
| housekeeper and have some outside
| interests as well.
From their recently acquired eman-
| cipation women are gaining In dignity.
| strength of purpose and capacity for
| using their minds. The more a wo-
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