New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-07
WE CAN ALL ATTAIN
TO OUR AIR CASTLES
A Woman Patent Lawyer Who Has Seen
Hers Materialize Says Determination
and "Sticktoitiveness Did 1t.

only woman patent expert, you see there
are even fewer in my class"
When asked why It Is that so few
women have achieved the highest IN their
profession, Miss Griswold replied: THAT
Will come with suffrage Already women
lawyers are forging ahead, despite the
fact that politics and men lawyers still
somewhat delay their progress. Why,
glance at our Woman Lawyers journal
will give you good idea of the tremen-
dous strides We are making. The Illinois
College of Law, although it graduated
only men this year. is progressive to the
extent OF. placing a woman. Professor
Elizabeth b. Lane. on its faculty. The
Washington College Of Law. presided over
by Dean Ellen Spencer Mussey, grad
uated six prize winners, and three OF them
were women. Chicago, the first city TO
follow In the wake OF France, where II 10
decreed that women magistrates shall be
appointed to attend girls In their juvenile
courts, has recently appointed a woman
lawyer as assistant judge I'm the juve-
nile court. In Germany Frau Tettenbom
has been granted the degree of Doc
being the first woman thus honored. In
Switzerland Nine. Rachel Vuille, OF
Neuchatel, passed her examination for
| admission TO the bar with high honors,
and she Is the first woman to be warmly
| welcomed into the profession by judge
, and male lawyers. Nine. Clotilde Louisi,
Doctor of Law, has been appointed Mn
ct 70 ha Of
GUM. and on June the Russian Douma
passed bill permitting women to prac-
tise law In Canada similar bill has
been adopted, while, of course, III our
own country all states now admit womeh
to the bar except Virginia, Georgia and
Arkansas"
Miss Griswold's manner is brisk. cheer
full and busnesslke. and she talks in
clear, full and forceful tone. Her eyes
| are an Irish blue, with a merry twinkle
| fighting it's way to dispel their keen
scrutiny Of everybody and everything.
| Her hair Is a soft white, reminding one
Of the bepowdered old Colonial DANES OF
Revolutionary days, and although 1t Is
cut short it falls in thick. pretty waves,
banishing any masculine appearance.
Miss Griswold is more than unusually
energetic-she is interchangeable. Besides
| keeping up large practice and editing a
law journal, she finds time to give lect-
ures, to write papers for various clubs
and to accept the presidency this year OF
the New York Woman Lawyers Club
She is an enthusiastic champion OF the
suffrage cause. and keeps abreast OF the
| times In every interest of the new woman,
be it socialism, enfranchisement, wom-
ems professions or religion. Especially Is
| she in sympathy with juvenile and labor
problems the lettering Of shopgrls' con-
ditions being one of her deepest interests.
| She is also an ardent New Thoughter.'
and holds meetings once week in the
tiny bungalow. OF late the attendance
has increased until the balconies had to
be called into use for seating capacity.
| So eager are the neighbors I'm Riverview
| Manor to bask in the sunshine OF this
woman's personality and to visit while
in her cosey house, with its atmosphere
of harmony and rest. that, as school
! teacher friend expressed il, mot only is
| this wee bit of a bungalow Miss Girls
wod's air CASTLE but it is also all the
| neighbors' peace palace"