The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-03

If was the lawyer who was talking Write som stf1fng," said he, about the woman who justifies herself" Proceeding, he explained his mean ing.
 CT have just settled case TOT d widow in court he said, 'who does not deserve to get a penny of the money
 hack that she was foolish enough to invest in a certain concern that she
 knew was unreliable. As the matter
 stands. she has won her case, but tEe noint that wasn't made before the
 iudge. which the family brought up be-
 fore the matter went to law, was thls "Why did the woman in question take
 money that had been left her in trust bv her husband for her children, some of whom were old enough to advise
 her against such concerns as the one
 in which she foolishly put her money didn't argue the point with him and presently he continued "pledpe YOU my word of honor if that woman didn't sit there with the room full of people pitted against her and justify herself for going into the scheme so cleverly that there wasn t one who didn't feel pity for her; more than pity-even sympathy. She could justify any action that she takes in life"
 "Is that an especial accomplish ment?' l asked.
 "It is an accomplishment in class all to itself" said the Lawyer. A woman who is 'justifier' has the strongest weapon of the sex She can do anything and justify herself in such 4 manner that all the wind Is taken out of the sails of the accusing ones. "The strongest plea that a woman can put up in a case of that kind ,s that her children are the incentive for such action," I suggested. "Exactly what my client did, said the lawyer. "She explained that she wanted moref money to be able to let her sons go into business. She was thinking of the future of her daugh- ters-she needed money for them 1 predict that even after this experience that I've gotten her out of in less than six months she'll be tied up in some other deal equally as tricky; but she'll justify herself then, even if the court refuses to give her damages Most of us have met the woman who l justifies herself.
 Personally l have known three wom- en who justified themselves in certain circles
 One woman deserted her children and went on the stage.
 She had numbers of friends in New York, and to them she justified her l self by telling them that she went on the stage merely to support her chii- dren. because she could make liv- ing dancing and she couldn't at any
 thing else. She belonged to the troop of barefoot dancers, I meant to say, who followed in the wake of Gertrude Hoffman, and she couldn't understand why she should be criticised.
 | Those to whom she told her story Listened and believed. when the truth | of the matter was, she never sent her I children a cont, but let her parents l take care of them while she sought pleasure in the limelight of notorie'y. Another woman who. by the way, had done some very clever newspaper work. quietly but surely stopped into the home of woman who had befriended her and took her husband-sSipped the country, if you please--exited! I agree with you that he didn't amount to much but was the whole ofS fSsthe first womans life--she loved bRlp deQrly-but the other woman jus
 uhel herself by saying that she took