The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-15

accustomed TO remoye when l came Into
court. II was a hat, by the way, that had
bought on my way down town at n Of the
department stores and | had selected II In
a great hurry.
twill you please tell me, Miss A.,
he asked very politely, why you always
take your hat Of as soon as you come into
court?'
There was a deep silence, Everybody
in the immediate locality stopped work.
Court was temporarily suspended. The
attorneys for plaintiff and defendant, court
officers and spectators we're immensely keen
on the subject. Sure enough, why DID
Miss A remove her hat?
Finally | appeased their interest. It's
not at all becoming, Judge ] said,
The sting Of the mans oourtesy lies in the
fact that he implies he has lost the case
because you happen TO be a woman and that
your winning il Is entirely outside the merits
lie will say, oh, ! could see that you had
the jury with you from the start, or per-
haps he may go a step further and say,
II would be a pretty hard sielled jury that
! could refuse any one as charming ss you
what you wanted
But this argument works both ways,
and | lost a case once because | appeared
against a woman whose small child was
used effectively by the opposing counsel
who held up 10 ignominy the appearance
OF a woman even though she we're a lawyer,
against a mother. The ~eloquence did its
work, although tbs woman was a notorious
character and the man she was blackmail-
ing was not the father Of the child as she
pretended.
Another time my esteemed opponent
called the attention Of the jury again and
again TO my brown eyes. He pleaded
with the force Of his young nature against
| them.
do not be moved, gentlemen Of the
jury he would shrek, by these wonder
full orbs.' Or he would say, When those
glorious eyes are turned this way, even |,
gentlemen Of the jury, feel my convictions
deserving me.
"0f course the implication was that II
they did decide in my favor the reason
would be that | had hypnotized them with
my little lamps. | had TO think quickly
/ There was only one thing 10 do, | must
meet his ridicule with riGicule.
Fortunately he had a habit Of hanging
on the desk and beginning every period
with Inthe first place Ding. 'Inthe second
place (Bingl. In the third place (Bing).
when | rose | said My esteemed oppo'
nent's first, second and third places reminded
me Of the old story OF Sam and Melissa. Me-
lisa. "a you may remember. took sam 10
task for neglecting her and Sam said that he
was afraid 70 come On account OF the dog
Then Melissa: in the first place, Sam,
you amt got no cause to be afraid Of that
dog in the second place, Sam, he don't
ever bite; in the third place, sam, we amt
got no dog in the first place"
when my opponent got up again and
began In the first place (Bingl the jury
laughed. That ratified him. He couldn't
talk unless he divided his phrases in his
accustomed manner, and every tims he
did he got another laugh, and there wasn't
one more reference made to my glorious
orbs during the trial Of the case.
my first ease was defending an old
German woman who had chased an irish
lady or been chased by her all over the
roof OF their tenement. a dishpan Of huge
dimensions playing an important part.
Before was called in, through her fear
and ignorance coupled with her excite
ment, the case had got. into General Sessions
az one Of assault in the third degree.
Il vas employed by a Lutheran society
which believed her innocent Of everything
except defending herself, as did, but !
was advised by many seniors in the profess
sions to make her plead guilty and get her