The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-12-11
City Prolific in Women Lawyers.

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City Prolific IN Women Lawyers.
Washington is remarkably prolific in
women Lawyers and notaries public. For
its population they are said to opt
number any other city. They range
from Beiva Lockwood who has argued
a ease before the Supreme Court down
10 the newest beginner of a notary,
who has taken it up as a sort of 4 side
on stenographv. More than elsewhere
these local Portias-how they DO loathe
that titIe,-are conceded respect and
ability. Mrs Ellen Spenser Mussev, a
very well known LAWYER and dean Of
the Washington College of Law. belongs
in the very front row of this galaxy.
Then there is woman residing in the
TRANQUILITY Of Mount Pleasant after her
strenuous office day is over who is a
commissioner Of deeds and claims. a
full tledged notary and an authority
and attorney on patent claims.
Nor must the claim agents be forgot
ten. nor q certain lone woman lobbyist
who gets her bills through both houses
by eloQuence and persistence, rather
than the ogIing methods of many Of
her traditional congressional sisters.
Rum0r has it that some very ambitious
measures have been sidetracked or
passed upon favorablv through her in
tcrest in them one way or another.
Mrs. W. \. Leonard. of the Treasury
Department had to endure many pleas
ant gihes from masculine contempora-
ries because Of her marked ability to
Immediately detect the counterfeit from
the genuine in currency. And she can
afford to take it pleasantly, for her
unique merit is a very profitable one.
She has the satisfaction of knowing
that twice month generous supply
of real dollars come her way.
Equally interesting is Mrs. 4. Z.
Brown Of the Treasury. known as Fthe
! lightning calculator. She can count
money faster than a multi millionaire
| can spend it, and none Of it ever sticks
to her fingers. but goes falling rhyth-
micaily Just where it should fall. Here
| is an arduous task. combining the quin-
! tessence Of both mental and bodily
| fatigue. but it proves very desirable
way to earn a living, and one utterly
; beyond the ken Of the average woman
or man either.
WAY. way down the financial lad
| der from these representatives is the
colored woman who keeps the wolf away
from her door by keeping eats inside
it. Very many Washingtonians of the
sex feminine have a highly developed
fondness for feIines and refuse to let
their pets roam the streets while they
are away for the summer months. Sc
the latter are conveyed to the aforesaid
domiciIe and for the sum agreed upon
kept supplied with food and a place Il
stay until their owners return.
A Unique Profession.
Yet the woman would often find her
peculiar business tagging if it were not
for obdurate apartment house ianitor>
who refuse absolutely to allow cat on
the place. The women who have moved
into flats and vet cannot bear the idea
of giving up their four footed idols in
stall them in this cat home and cal
upon them Frequently with all due pomI
and ceremony Meanwhile. the care
taker runs a business which is the only
one Of its kind in town.
When trade or profession suggests
very hard work and difficulty Of eNecu
ton the number of women listed as be
longing to it Is lstaIv very small
which may be the reason why Mrs J
r. Thomson is the only eugraNer VIII,
could he located in the government She
is au expert and declared t. he worthy
he admission She has gained In ta,
vnua- of masculine occupations.
solitary female junk dealer S list
od in Washington, though II seem.
INF her nm emf .r.rsr moi .aI If rr4ft 5..r .