Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-12-26

ship or the translation of beauty into
set terms of art
There are women lawyers who MAIN
tain the came attitude about woman 8
availability in the legal profession
There is not any special work for
women lawyers, with the emphasis on
the women said one of them the other
day. It's just lawyers work. The
women have the same angle of APP
proach that the men do" Women doc
tors sometimes, but not so often, offer
the same kind of testimony. Women
artists are still sometimes jealousy
anxious that their work be judged for
its sheer artistry. ASSOCIATED from the
woman part of it.
But it is a question If the matter in
evoluting is not irvoluting, folding
back upon itself, as it were. Is it a. fact
that there is no sex in mind; no sex in
art? Isn't it more likely a fact that
women have an essentially feminine
contribution to make all along the line
Now that the recognition of her hu-
manness has secured for her the oppor
tunity, isn't it very likely that he"
womanness, at its finest and fullest, is
going to usurp and use the opportu-
nifty? For the case Of art the woman
writer is an Illustration in point that
suggests if it doesn't prove. Time
was when she had tc use a masculine
nom de plume, and shook in her shoes
until the critics had committed them
selves to the effect that Mr.. George
Elliot writes With salient and unmis
taxable masculinity." Then she laugh
ed in her sleeve. But, except by way
OF merry literary adventure. no wo-
man writer hides today behind a mas
culine nom de plume. She has gone
further in literary achievement than
the mere making way for her literary
ability as a human being; she has
made way for her literary ability as
woman She has value IN literature as
woman. 1t is conceded that as woman
she brings to literature qualities that
men do not bring. II is realized that,
though she can write like man il she
will. she will write like woman. il she
may. Certain now Of her chance she
is coming into her full Nomans power
Of expression. and is no more disturb
ed that her work is feminine than that
it is human.
And as for the case of the woman
lawyer, there are seventeen thousand
angles of approach for her that are not
for the man lawyer. At least SO sec
ond woman lawyer maintains. The
emphasis is distinctly on the woman.
she says. With the emphasis there
the woman lawyer has q great work
ahead of her in the handling of the
criminal woman. in understanding and
interpreting her case as woman, just
as she has a great work in interpret
ing woman's case on the civil side.
With her expert technical knowledge
the woman lawyer is a large asset in
the effort to remove the. legal disabill-
ties of women today; and when that
has been done she will be a still larger
asset in the general social structure
because that structure has always
needed, and will always neIu, wo-
mans point of view reflected in ita
Iaw-making.
Testimony grows stronger as oppor-
tunity grows wider. Woman in science,
woman in business, woman in the pro
fessions, woman in art, woman in SOC
ial work, woman IN politics-the EN-
T phasiS does seem to be on woman. Ii
| does seem to be the woman in woman
that is most especially wanted, and is
most especially there to fill the want.
And it may well he that the order for
womanness is larger order than the
order fer humanness, and that the
Whole trouble lay originally in not
allowing to an irresistible feminlnlty
its right of full and free development.
its right to relate itself, not only to life
at home, but to life ywhere.-New
York Post.
An incident seen OH a city street, the
other day, indicates that the antagon-
ism between drivers OF horse-drawn
vehicles and chauffeurs of motor trucks
is giving way to an entente cordlale.
a heavily loaded wagon was stuck
between two ear tracks, and the horses
were Vainly enGeaVoring to pull out
their load A huge ten-ton motor
truck passed then turned backed up.
and with mighty push dislodged the
wagon The driver beamed his thanks,
and atmosphere of general good feel
ing took the place of one of gloom and
hard words.-The outlook.