The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-10-01

ented. who for six years serving ef- ficiently in the offices of the county treasurer of which her father, Prof. M. V. Henry, Is In charge, as assis- tant treasurer, found that the "at- mosphere." the mere fact of being in the "court house." forced her into the study of the law.
 Mrs. Mayfield, with her beautiful eyes, skin of clarified opaqueness. pearly teeth and radiant smile easily qualities under the description given by q great lawyer. who on one occasion talking shop out of court, said of feminine beauty;
 "A pretty mouth Is like 6 subse- quent ratification of 8 power of at- torney; it cures every previous de- feet"
 Personally, I don't believe there is a jury of 12 men under the shining sun, who having Mrs. Mayfield 10 argue a case before them would, could or should, render a verdict against her;
 For beauty Is potent thing
 And man Is only human"
 Mrs. Mayfleld gracefully remarks:
 ''The county treasurers offices be- ing the only bonded office in the county, legal knowledge of matters
 
 sides at the court house everybody thinks in legal phrases, so how could anybody dodge being a student of the law7
 T studied law ar the Birmingham Southern, where MT. Samuel c. Bow man taught, and I also had private instruction from Mir. Bowman. who is an excellent teacher.
 T do not know that I should ever care to practice in the court room; I regard the particular ability of a woman to follow the law as pro- fession. not in criminal law but chancery and probate work.
 There is also a wonderful fisld open now to women in the divorce courts, woman lawyer specializing in divorces 1t seems to me would make a much more pronounced sue. cess than a man.
 Why? Because of her sympathy especially where there are children to consider. when g woman's heart is so much more easily touched than a mans and her intuition and her understanding so much greater"
 But somebody has said about woman's intuition, I couldn't help interpolating. that 1t is a quality which makes a woman draw the right conclusions from the wrong premises, and the wrong conclusions from the right premises and she always pokes the fire from the top"
 At which Mrs Mayfield joinad heartily in the laugh, declaring that some man must have said that Se- cause men think that the average woman is as illogical as a candi- date" and that her process of reason ing always begins from the wrong end.
 Not PurlOinins Men's.. Work
 Also, men, many of them, think that with women entering the pro fession of the law, medicine, and other professions commonly accorded to men. that we are trying to take their field away from them. This Is not true, but on the contrary the field would not be worth the enter ing If men were not in evidence.
 Then, too. it must be remembered according to the great Pinkney's observation as related by simon Suggs, Jr., in A Legal Legacy an- other of Baldwin's immortal crc- ations, that the lawyers distinction Is preferable to all others. since 1t Is impossible in that profession to ac- quire a false or a fradulent reputa- tion," and all women arc ambitious to attain such an ideal.
 There Is a place for women in the law, many places, and especially are women apt at briefs Men abhor de- tails and briefs might be called de- tails.' for want of better name" said Mrs. Mayfield.
 NO modern Portia in cap and gown appeals to me, but rather the work of wills. and mortgages, and deeds and things which the probate court and the ehancery courts cover. q realize thoroughly that the enn-