Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-06-24
MRS. KLNGLESMTTH
SEES BRIGHT FUTURE
FOR HER SEX IN LAW
Prominent Penn Scholar Says
Women Destined to Occupy
Important Place in Legal
Profession
TELLS WAY TO SUCCESS

| l. ALAIlJO . w n i l. " COOOlIDbO
Education used to be considered matter
of three RS, but according to tk views of
| Mrs Margaret Kllnglesmith, It is a question
| Of three p's-patience, perseverance and
| push
| Mrs. Klinglesmith took her degree in law
| from the University of Pennsylvania in
| 1898, and ever since that time has devoted
| her efforts not to the more or less public
| court life of woman lawyer but to re-
search work, delving into huge legal tones
| and studying the vast number of legal
| volumes that are published annually, so that
| the youth of the University who are taking
| law courses may have the best and newest
works at their disposal.
II have always been Interested in his
tory" she will tell you, land If l had not
| become n lawyer, 1 should have been an
| historian But wanted to study law from
| the time I was IA
TT Is due to William Draper Lewis that
got any start In realizing my ambi-
| tion. 1 worked in his office for time,
and 1t was through him that / was able to
go to the University and do librarian work
at the same time"
FIVE YEARS ON TRANSLATION.
1t Is In this same library that Mrs.
Klinglesmith works today, but she holds
the librarians chair and is destined to
have her name written in the annals of the
place-for her translation of the old Eng
lsh basis of the common law, Strathams
Abridgement.
This book represents the work of more
than five years-it took five years actually
to translate the volume from the old abbre-
Waited French In which It was written and
great deal more than five years to get
the necessary education to be able to at
tempt the translation Scholars all over
the country have praised the accuracy and
COmnrehnnsiVn ltnnXvladpa nP In
that the translation displays. 1t stands on
Mrs. Klinglesmith's desk, in two large,
thick volumes, In clear, modern language
and beside It, musty but precious vol
ume, stands in the original. written in 1870.
When 1t is opened a series of hieroglyphcs
that would stump and has stumped schol-
ars less brave than It's dlminutive trans
lator are revealed.
HER GREAT AMBITION!
Building up the Biddle Law Library Is
the pet ambition OF Mrs. Klinglesmith's
life, now that this great book Is translated
She is justly proud of it's present state,
because she knows how much more SUI
perior 1t is now than when she first enter
ed II.
There were only 10000 books here
when l came. I always had ideas on how
n library should be conducted and since
1 have been librarian l have put them into
practice. with very pleasing results. Twice
was SSuI over " EUROPE 10 Duy DOCKS
for this library. I visited England one
whole summer, browsing around the great
Libraries therefor England, as 1 have
said before, is the home of the common
law. Then L was in Germany, France and
Switzerland, and hope to go again when
the war Is over"
There are just as many opportunities IL
not more. for the woman who studies law
as there when she took her degree,
Mrs. Klinglesmth declares.
"I think success in any line is a matter
of individual characteristics" she says.
But, of course, the woman lawyer must
be willing to wait for success 1t takes
90 years to get real recognition at the bar,
and during that time there must be much
unpaid for work and much study. A wom
an has a better chance IL she allies herself
with some big law firm when she finishes.
There she can learn the way to go about
things. man once told me that he
thought the day would come when men
will do all the pleading at the courts, and
women will do all the office work No. that
isn't slur by any means. 1t Is a COM
pment, for it is the office work that Is
really the thinking work, and women are
just as good thinkers as men"
SAYS MEN ARE JUST.
Men are just as willing to confer the
palm of victory on woman as they are
to give Il to fellow man, according to
this little lauy 3 viewpoint. lHp l"Sh Nit''
the University of Pennsylvania conferred an
honorary degree of master of laws on her
at the commencement on Wednesday-and
she Is the first woman to receive such
degree from the University-proves 1t, she
tells YOU modestly Mrs. Klinglesmith has
done something that is unique Her work
is exceptional, for when she wanted to find
a woman who was able to review the proofs
of her translation there was not a single |
woman in Philadelphia who could even
attempt it.
Yes, any man or any woman can study |
law II he observes the three rules, patience. |
perseverance and push, but 1t is hard work. |
There are two classes of students who sue |
ceed, the ploddlng. Woodworking "grinds" |
and the students who can digest thought |
quickly and give out that knowledge at eN- |
animation time. But the first Is the kind |
who makes good in after years,