Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-05-11
Feminine
Snapshots
Lawyers Have Their
Opinion of Women
Clients


not fattering On the other hand, the
woman who has been through the mill 4
of having business transactions with +
members of the legal profession has al
so her opinion of the man lawyer, ami I
it is even less flattering to him than his I
judgment is to her. Experiences of SUI
ing to recover money due one and hav- /
ing the attorney claim half, two-thirds, T
in some cases even the whole of the /
amount recovered, and being brought /
into actual debt to the lawyer besides,
is rather calculated to sour either man
or woman against the legal profession
and to induce the resolve in future to I
avoid lawsuits at whatever cost. 1t
is only fair, however, to hear the man
lawyers side of the case too. To do |
him justice, he admits that an expert /
enced business woman makes as rea-
sonable and sensible client as man.
but when it comes to the emotional,
gushy, ignorant, clinging vine sort Of |
female-excuse him. He never knows
what she is going to do next. Emo
tional affairs are apt to prompt this |
sort of woman to lawsuits. She will |
visit the attorney and weep and i'm
plore him to help her in some matri-
monial or love squabble. She manu-
features tears so effectively that to get
rid of her the lawyer frequently takes
her case and brings about the result
she desires. Then the fair client is apt
to find herself not bit happier or bet
ter satisfied than she was before, and,
with the inconsequentialness of the old
style woman or an idiot, she immediate
~ bout faces and blames the lawyer
bitterly for bringing all this misery in
to her life. So says the man lawyer.
1.-THE ears mother is forced to do all
the cooking for the imperial family for
fear poison may be introduced into
their food" Let US hope the ears
mother herself will not poison the i'm
perial family with her poor cooking.
May the old style of emotional, cow
ardly, irresponsible woman speedily
disappear. 1t matters not how she
vanishes. whether she is evolved out.
drops out or evaporates. Just let her
go, the sooner the better, and farewell
forever to heri
Thousands of letters have been re-
ceived by the land commissioner of /
Boneset, S. D., from men who wish to /
marry the young women that drew
farming homesteads in the recent |
opening of government lands on the /
Rosebud reservation Just So What I
a miserable, mercenary creature wo-
man is to marry for a home! Isn't she?
NO; bonnet strings are not worn, ex- |
cept by old women says the fashion
editor. | have looked for weeks to see I
a pair of bonnet strings, and neer a
string have | found, except on Saliva
ton Army feminine folk. Evidently |
there are no old women any more
And now Queensland, of the Aus
frage to women.
If Marie Feodorovna, dowager en- |
press of all the Russias, had not sat
upon the lid of reform for her own
sex and set herself in all ways to keep
them down and in ignorance and sub
lection, she would not now be in dam
ger every moment of having that lid |
blown off by dynamite and herself and /
her family sent to kingdom come with |
all their sins upon their heads. The |
gifted, intelligent women of Russia |
stead of to the revolutionist terrorists.
At least one or two loyal women would I
have relieved her of the necessity of I
going into the kitchen and perspiring I
over the imperial cooking which not
human being could be trusted to do.
There are others than women who (
loathe tobacco. Il do not belong to a (
club of any kind" says John Bur
roughs, Americas naturalist. Il would /
like to join few good clubs of men +
if it wasn't for their internal tobacco"
&s
Honesty, decency, courage and com
mon sense-these four go to the max
ing of character, according to Presi-
dent Roosevelt. But often one finds
that common sense is the scarcest of
the four.
gs
AS usual, somebody is sneering at
Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman
in America. Now she is derided be-
cause she lives at the rate of $500 a
year, dwelling in a fat for which she
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