Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-12
Mrs. Bird Mcclure Studies Law, but Tangocs, Too
Congressman'S Wife Only Woman in Her Class
Oklahoma legislators Helpmate
May Become His Partner,
She Can't Tell Yet.

WASHINGTON, oct. threading
law broadens a man; | don't see why
It shouldn't broaden a woman.
The idea that when a woman is
married her education IL finished is
wrong.
think a woman can best spend her
time raising a large family; but
don't think a woman Is prepared to
raise a family unless her education
has been rather broad.
These are a few--a very few-Of
the ideas of the progressive Mrs. Bird
Segle MCGUIRE. wife Of Congressman
Mcclure, Of the First Oklahoma Dis
triet. who is regularly attending reel
tations as a law student in George
Washington University.
Mrs MCGUIRE has started out to
take a law course. not, as has been
suggested, that she may become the
active professional partner of her
husband, but because II interests her
to study the subject
Il had delightful time this sum
mer with Blackstone" she said. gayly
Law In A. M; Tango in p. NJ.
Now, Mrs. Mcclure is not a pom
derous. serious. spectacled. angular
woman from whom such an odd state
trary, Mrs. Mcclure Is young. laugh
ing. lively. pretty. and-she tNngoes.
Il love it." she says.
THAT hardly goes with the law"
Law In the morning; tango in the
evening They go together pretty
we'll" answered Mrs Mcguire.
why" she was asked, should you
have a delightful time with Black
stone?"
Il had read so much Action" she
said And one gets nothing from
the new fiction"
This s one answer"
Well, to tell it all"--and now she
was fairly started--'my Congress-
man husband Is a lawyer You will
remember that during the last cam
recall OF judicial decisions and the
recall Of judges. thought they were
good Ideas. II a Judge doesn't decide
a case to suit you, recall him. said /.
She Changed Her Mind.
mr.. Mcclure didn't agree with me.
II you had ever read any law, he
said, you would have different
opinion on these matters
so | turned to Mr.. Blackstone, be-
cause. as l say, there Ia nothing in
the fiction OF to- day, and there was
comparatively little else for one to
do in Washington during the sum
mer discovered several things
about the recall OF judges For in
stance, in New Jersey and New York
they had tried having the upper
houses Of the Legislature pass on ju-
dicial decisions and they had an aw
full lot OF trouble ! changed my
mind, just as Mr.. Mcclure predicted
Mrs MCGUIRE has far better edu-
cation on which to build her Legal
training than the ajority OF lawyers
She Is the daughter OF a professor In
the Kansas City schools She was
| graduated from the high school OF
that city, and then she received de-
gree from the University OF Michigan
| She speaks German and French flu
| emily. and is we'll read In Latin
Il didn't start with the idea OF go
ing into partnership with my hus-
band" said Mrs. Mcclure, although
intend to complete the three-year
course. Sill can't tell. II may hap
pen that when we go home | shall sc
into his office"
Mrs. MCGUIRE is the only woman in
her classes. What is more unusual
she Is the only Congressman's wife
who is going to college, and probably
| ls the only one who ever turned aside
from the demands OF society long
! enough to take law course,