Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-09
MISS
CRYSTAL
EASTMAN

"a the University or pennsylvania that for q
~ standard of feminine Ioyeliness-well unlove-
I lness-all you had to do to glance
the Law School coeds. The co-eds
treated with according chiyalry When one managed
to survive the first year she looked upon with
kind of awe; otherwise she wasn't looked upon at all
The woman lawyer usually is pictured as sacric-
ing beauty to brains. Her bulgng brow swallows
up the Of her face, and she's rather glad of it.
Portia in floating garments, with curs peepng from
under fetching bonnet, parades only through the
pages of Shakespeare behind the foohghts And
then be taken seriously she has obviously
masquerade as a man. The beauty of to-day who
walks the devious ways of legal knowledge is apt to
be a militant suhragette regarding Law merely a
side issue the great
That is why a gasp of peasurabe astonishment is
the result of your first meeting with Crystal Eastman
For Miss Eastman, in spite of fine brow has brown
eyes that laugh and dimpIes winch she finds rather
difficult to suppress. Likewise, she has youth,
charming, girIish mamer-and seems 10 delight in
making you overlook the fact that her trails
A. B., for which Nassar is responsible; an NJ A., be-
slowed by Columbia and IL. b.. the result Of law
course at New York University These titles are as
a court train-merc adjmcts to the attractive woman
You look at Miss Eastman, talk to her and come
rapidly to the conclusion that the State wise
in appointing her the among thirteen men
of the Employers Liability Commission. The com
mission of which Miss Eastman secretary has been
formed investigate industrial accidents and pre-
pare a report on the same for this session of the
Legislature.
When the Governor of New York selects a young
woman of-wen, I'm not quite sure but decidedly
young, anyway TO fill post of great responsibility
she must possess personality of vital interest to the
outside world
In n suite set high mp in the Metropolitan Build
ing there's a large outer room whose occupants at
desk and ypcwriters look up in quick welcome when
athletic blue serge figure and face already smiles
swing in from The corridor like the embodiment Of
fresh air fun and big vitality. Each morning he
uine and Zen Miss Eastman hurries through the
larger room and into her private office, dimnutiye
place, Aalf window. the rest cascd in shining metal
like a vault for yaluables. The telephone iangles-
there's not a second of feminine uncertainty in the
conversation that follows not an instants hesitation
in directions given.
An incident I'm the life OF crystal Eastman', mother
offers think. key 10 the daughters character The
wife Of The Rev. s. r. Eastman, though intensely
and what is IJora. intcceuty interested n her hus-
bands work, WAS first of all the home woman, de-
voted tu bcT three children and entirely apart from the
class know rs professional" When the two broth
Of Miss Eastman were still small boys, and She
herself scarcely eight ye8rs of age the father fell
i'll, without expectation of recovery. The necessity Of
supporting the family dcyolyed upon the mother, and,
with that quiet resouJcr which occasionally aston
ishes in the aonuevoman. She took her husbands
place in the pulpit proving herself thoroughly eff
cent that when he finally recovered they continued
Elmira, n. y.
"Not that my mother is any more the professional
woman now ,har she years ago. Miss East
man added. in telling the story. Shes brilliant and
capable but in temperament she tends all the other
way