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1} { | | Women in the Law. HE admission of women to prae- tice law is becoming yearly a more noteworthy fact. It was stated not, long ago, saye Bench and Bar, that about 20,000 women have been admitted to the bar of the Unfted States. A fow —less than forty—have been admitted to vractice in the United States supreme court. Mrs. Belva Lockwood of Washing- ton, D. C., was the first of these. She was admitted in 1879. Among pthers who have recelved this distinction are Mrs. Carrle Burnham Kilgore, Mrs. Marilia Ricker and the Misses Florence and Ethel Colford. Among the women practitioners of New York Ci‘y are Miss Mary Coleman, Mrs. Rosalls Loew Whitney, Mrs. Mary Grace Quackenbos and Mrs. Sophle Mayer. All of them have been notably successful, Miss Coleman is sald to have once received & 35,000 fee, for which, no doubt, ‘“value recelved” was rendered, and Mrs, ‘Whitney will be remembered as at one time one of the attorneys for the Legal Ald woclety. Mrs. Quackenbos has been more than onoce speclally retained by the United Btates government, and, we belleve, is regularly « one of the counsel for the New York Life Insurance company. Every year the law schools turn out a number of women srad- uates, some of whom teke up the actual practice of law, and there are even Indi- cations that women lawyers may effect an entrance into the sacred field where the judicial plum tree grows, to the dls- concertment of some of our brethren whose @ppetite for the frult of that tree is aito- fether too well developed. America seems to lead all other coun- tries In the matter of women lawyers. We have heard of none in England, and the few who have been mdmitted to prace tice in France seem to find little encour- agement, There may be some women who are adapted to advocacy, but we belive that the majority of those who obtain admis- slon to the bar are not, and further, that the time is hardly ripe for the entrance of many women Into this particular de- partment of practice. It still savors of the incongruous and jars upor what are called the “conservative” sensibilities, to #ee a woman plead In court, however ably she may perform her part. It any one 1s disposed to cite the appearance of Por- tla in the case of Shylock against Antonio (Bhapespeare), as an anclent precedent for such practice, we answer that Portla mas- Queraded as & man—a thing which our slster at the bar would not wish to do at this day, both en mccount of the in- artistic apparel with which the present male members of the profession clothe themselves, and also the inhibition of the penal code, with which lawyers of both sexes are familiar, In the other departments of legal work, however, women may find a wide field for usefulness, where they can easily compete with, and in some of which they may per- haps excel, the men. We refer especially to the field or flelds of legal writing. These, as it seems to us, offer a splendid oppor- tunity at the present time to the talents of the trained women lawyers. It appears ‘from the preface of the West Publishing Company's Decennial Digest, that within the ten years ended with 106, more than 50,000 decislons of the federal courts and the courts of several states, have been reported. They will continue to come forth in even greater volume. To analyze, digest .and classify these cases Is a monumental labor, and nowhere, in our opinion, could .the capabliities of our sister lawyers be more suitably or profitably employed. They ought to find ready engagement in the law publishing houses which Issue digests and encyclopedias, at comfortable living salaries—say from twelve to twenty-five hundred dollars a year. Nor need the lit~ erary lawyer, whether man or woman, be limited to digest or encyclopedic work, but would undoubtedly succeed equally as a writer of legal text books and treatises. —— Political Indifterence of Women, As for the working woman, who, it is generally assumed, will be the one most benefited ' by suffrage, the frankest seem inclined to own that mot much has been done about her so far, writes Sarah Com- stock in Collie Colorado women are responsible for a measure providing that no woman shall work more than eight hours a day at work requiring her to be on her feet; that seats for saleswomen be provided in the shops, and so on, a few similar items. But the fact is that the working woman s not so important & prob- lem out there as she s in the east. Fac- tories and shops are few, and from what I saw of the shop girl's condition. it seemed not especlally in need of “‘measures.’ In Denver I was told that the average sirl- behind-the-counter, the one who receives §§ 4 25 Years Kayser silk gloves have be- come what they are through 25 years of experience. We alone have the infinite skill which is required to per- fect them. It was Kayser who invented the patent tip—the tip that outwears the glove. It was the Kayser fabric, the Kayser fit, that made silk loves the summer gloves of e millions. They are today, as always, the only silk gloves desired by women who W, Patent Finger-Tipped Silk Gl oves Inevery you get a guar- antee, goor‘f:r a new pair if they prove unsatisfactory. s In every pair you get the finish that comes h our fifty operations. Yet Kayser gloves are just as cheap as the poorest silk loves on the market. Simply L careful. Look for the mame in the hem. Short Silk Gloves ! ¢ BOc, 75c, $1.00, $1.25 “ Lorg Silk Gloves 75c, $1.00, $1.25, §1.50 JULIUS KAYSER & CO. MAKERS NEW YORK & week In New York, is pald from $6 to $5; In Salt Lake City, from $7 to $10. Another fact is, she has not taken up the battle for herself. The average working woman Is a fairly youthful and joyous crea- ture despite all the long faces drawn over her condition. She Is not much aware that #he has a condition. She 1s aware of the peach-basket hat belng In, of who is play- Ing at the theaters, and of what the latest #ong hit is. She 18 not concerned about legislative measures. “That's merely a question of youth, not sex,"” Mrs. Decker says. “Boys of that age are not concerned, either.” But It is & handicap to the would-be re- former. The matron of the Girls' Friendly, & Denver boarding club for working women, told me that the girls are indifferent to politics. “But on election day the club women come In thelr autos and take them to the polls,” she mdded. I dropped in at one of the little coffee- and-waffle restaurants where such girls flock and engaged some of them in con versation. ‘Are you interested in the election?” I asked one, “I won't be old enough to vote until next January,” she replied. *I don't feel like I'd ever care much about it, either. But my sister's old enough and she's tickied to death, so maybe I will be whea the time comes. “Do the girls study up much on the sub- Jeot?” ‘'Oh, I don't know,” she sald reflectively. I guess they don't hurt themselves think- ing about it." —_—— A Reserve Funa of Health. ‘Why do so many women go to pleces When they should be in the full flush of heaith? Because they have not prepared for & physical rainy day with a reserve fund of bodily strength or mental control. There are women whose bank account never gives them a thought, whose thrift- iness precludes lying awake at night dreading a penniless future; yet those same women are wanton spendthrifts of what Is more than a great fortune—health. How can one lay up for the physical rainy day? What are safe Investments it & health crash is to be warded off? Never wear one's self. to the point of exhaustion. Each time we fatigue our- selves beyond our strength we are draw- ing on our capital, . Learn to let go. Most women hasten the rainy day by their mad desire to be in the thick of things, their foolish dread of seeing themselves deposed from nau- thority. . Take life easy. More invallds are caussd by fret than disease. Shirking responsi- bilitles is not the deadly crime most woman think it; there are times when it is a duty We owe ourselves. Keep cheerful. Just as sunlight briags health so does a sunny heart ward off the physical rainy day. Watch the digestion. The woman wjo can count on her stomach not going back on her usually prolongs her youth into old age. The secret of most neurasthenics s undigested food. S Have an interest in Ire, but learn to keep it within bounds. The trouble with most women is they let their Interosts be master. A hobby is said to bring health, but never when it is overridden. Cultivate placidity and seif-control. The quiet, placid woman may bend with the (welght of her burden, but she rarely breaks, as does her sister who lives with eyery nerve tense. Be normal in ypur attitude to Iife, Avold excess. Learn the value of a happy heart and a healthy body and you have little to @read from the breakdown, which, should it come, will find you with a good capitai, ——d ‘Women fn the Civil Service. Inquiry into the causes of the present economic status of women is necessary and wholesome, and also fruitful of theorles for betterment; but while commis- slons Investigate, by painstaking, sclentifio methods, the people are contronted by con- ditions which are immediate and presaing, and cannot be referred to & committee. So, while the House commission in Washing- ton, works out its stupendous problem, the &eneral movement to improve the condition of working-women under the leadership ot Miss Ann Morgan, is worthy of attention and co-operation, and it is especially gratify- ing that the committee on the Improve- ment of the condition of the women em~ ployes of the government is headed by the intelligent and public-spirited wife of our president, Mrs. Willlam H. Taft, writes Ruth G. D. Havens In Harper's Weekly. The present seems to be a suitable time to eall general attention to a fact which not only affects the woman worker, but nulli fies the law enacted by men, in good faith, to improve and equalize the conditions which formerly existed in the civil service, The conception of the orlginal civil serve ico law was equality of advantage to man and woman under it. Upon the passage of the act both men and women sought places under its provisions. Women received in many cases, as the result of examination, the highest rating and were appointed. Whereupon politicians found it expedient to provide a way practically to create a test of fitness outside of the éxamination and not contemplated by the law. This was accomplished by securing a presidential rule—which, having been ap- proved by the commission, under the lan- guage of the act becomes part of the law ~to the effect that a bureau officer may ask for certification of names of men and women, as he shall elect. Now bureau officers are all men, and generally poli- ticlans. The consequence is that they ask for men, and the sole test of fitness is, in actual practice, one of sex. If ten men are examined and recelve a rating of 77 to 83 per cent, and ten women are exam- ined and are cated from 8 to 92 per cent, the men may all be appointed and the wo- men lggored. Thus is the law effectually nullified. As a result of this rule there have been almost no appointments of wo= men to clerical positions under the com- mission, and the number of women in the executive department is gradually dimin- ishing, Large numbers of girls are appointed as unskilled and skilled laborers, on & low- grade competitive examination, at a very small salary or with compensation as plece- workers, The money-counters in the Treas- ury department are almost exclusively women, frequently entering the service by the road of appointment as skilled labor in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. ‘When the wearlsomeness mnd health de- stroying nature of thelr enjoyment are considered, and their responsibility for all losses by error and counterfeits, their average pay Is ridiculously small. Yet an effort has been made to reduce it far below living wages, because the fleld is solely occupled by women. Success In any attempt to reduce wom- en’s wages In the service seems probable, it one appeals to history for precedent and prophecy. Forty yeare ago the minimum wage for men engaged in clerical work in the civil service was §1,200 per annum; for women $%00. The official hours were from 9 a. m to8p m Afterward a grade for women was established at $720 per annum, and an hour was added to the clerical day. Following in rather close succession, gradzs were established at $1,000, at $80, at $i0, at $560, at M80; a year or two ago a grade of $990 was proposed, but falled of enact- ment. Meantime halt-hour added to the day, and the hours from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m It 1s thus made apparent that, while the present clerical grading is sald to have been established in the early fifties, the standard of wages has beem reduced by the Institution of seven lower grades, throngh which women, and sometimes men, must climb to reach a living salary, and by two additions to the length of the official day; and this has occurred during & perfod when the cost of llving has been constantly advancing. In 194 the force of federal numbered 160,38, of whom 13, or be- tween § and § per cent, were females. Of this small proportion 9519 recelved less than $900 per annum, which was the low- est malary at which women were appointed forty years ago. This well lllustrates the attitude of the government toward women. In pausing to glance at the anomalous retrogression of wages I do not wish to divert attention from the subject of this article—the banishment of women from tha service. This question was asked of a certain bu- reau officer: “You have sald many times that your women clerks are more faithful, more accurate, more consclentious than me‘l men and equally competent, and hence en- titled to promotion. Why, then, do you always ask the commission for men?" This was his answer: “Women are en- titled to the appointments under the law, and by reason of thelr equal efficlency. They are also justly entitled to the snf- frage. But they have not the suffrage, and so they cannot have the appolntment: The voters must have the places. If you women want positions In the civil service you must first seoure citizenship through the ballot.” There ls the situation In & nut-shell. another was are now employes of Peace, Mrs. Lucla Ames Mead and Mrs. Phillp in plain English The Badge of Honesty Is on every wrapper of Doctor Pierce's Golden Medical Discov- ery because a full list of ingredients composing it is printed thers § More than forty years of experience has proven its superior worth as a blood-purifier and invigorating tonic for the cure of stomach disorders and all liver ills. 7 run-down system as no other tonic can in which alcohol is used. The active medicinal principles of native roots such as Golden Seal and Queen’s root, Stone root and Mandrake root, Bloodroot and Black Cherrybark are extracted and preserved by the use of chemically pure, triple-refined glycerine. Send to Dr. R. V. Pierce at Buffalo, N. Y., for kI which quotes extracts from well-recognized medical authorities such as Drs. Bartholow, King, Scudder, Coe, Ellingwood and a host of others, showing that these roots can be depended upen for their curative action in all weak states of 'thc smmach. accom- panied by indigestion or dyspepsia as well as in all bilious or liver in all “wasting diseases” where there is loss of complaints ani flesli and gradual running down of the strength and system, It builds up the ee booklet The ‘“Golden Medical Discovery’ makes rich, pure blood and so invigorates and regulates the stomach, liver and bowels, and through them, the whole system. Thus all skin affections, blotcnes, pimples and eruptions as well as scrofulous swellings and old open running sores or ulcers are cured and healed. In treating old running sores, or ulcers, it is well to insure their healing to apply to them Dr. Pierce’s All-Healing Salve. stock, send fifty cents in gical Institute, Buffalo, you by return post. ostage stamps to If your druggist don’t happen to have this Salve in % . R. V. Pierce, Invalids’ Hotel and Sur- .Y, and a large box of the * All-Healing Salve” will reach You can’t afford to accept a secret nostrum as a substitute for this non-alcoholic, medicine OF KNOWN COMPOSITION, not even though the urgent dealer may thereby make a little bigger profit. Though he offers the substitute for a less price you can't afford to experiment with your health. Go where they give you what you ask for without argument. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowelss Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take as candy. N. Moore were two women who took part in the conference In the interest of uni- versal peace at Chicago the first weck in May. “Peace can be obtained by means that are entirely practicable,” sald Mrs, Mead previously to the meeting. “Interna- tional peace Is to be obtained by the same general method of organization that keeps peace among our states. Kentucky has her nightriders and Tennessee has her feuds, but the two states themselves never fight. Forty-six united states can show forty-six nations how to make & unitod world."” P Women Don’t Want Suffrage. The women of Philadelphia are having an interesting time, some of them for women suffrage, and some against it. Mrs. Horace Brock 1s one of the soclety women of that 8o great has beccme the Interest that ‘women pf opposing camps try thelr best to EW YORK, May 15 — Brides- malds' frocks are usually delec- table things. The bride's gown ls bound to be of more or less con- ventional type. She isn't even sure to look her best in it, but Wwhen it comes to the frock for her brides- maids she may indulge whim and fancy, have her own way In regard to colors, be recklessly picturesque if she will Of course, under ordinary circumstances it 1s & kindly thing to consider the brides- mald's future needs and plan a frock for her that will be useful to her later on in- stead of Insisting upon something too un- usual to be practical for general use; but nowadays there is such latitude in the modes, frocks of varying periods are so commonly worn, individuality in dress is #o favored, that even consideration for the bridesmald’'s purse need not impose very rigid limitations, The directoire modes have been lovely for bridesmalds’ pur- poses, and are lovely still, and at many of the June wed- dings the short- ‘Bridesmaid’s Frock Growing Picturesque charity's sake choose slender bridemalds and slight her fat friends. Where more conventional ideas hold sway there 1s still charce for delightful effects. Lingerfe models on short-walsted direc- toire or loose-fitting princess lines have been chosen for the bridesmalds of two smart June weddings, all the frocks for which are being made in the estab- Ushment of & popular New York dress- maker, One of the brides—tne only daughter of a wealthy Western family and just out of a New York boarding school—has elected to have her five maids in exquisite lingerle and late princesse frocks of very delicate tints—pale blue, pink, yellow, lllac and green—while her mald of honor wears a corresponding frock in white. Big Leghorn hats of poke shape and trimmed in wis- taria matching each frock and long hand- led parasols accompany the frocks, The lingerle frock sketched here is the model chosen for the bridesmalds of the A GIRLISH FROCK OF PONGE waisted, clingl ng frocks will be worn, but they are not so new as some of the othér ideas which are being exploited. The very latest thing In picturesque brides- maids' wear, so a Parls correspondent writes, has been planned by one of the great dressmakers of the Place Vendome for a June wedding near Paris, and is likely to remind onlookers of the “‘merry, merry villager,” for it is made with laced peas- ant's bodice, soft blouse and rather short full skirt. This laced peasant bodice, so our inform- ant adds, threatens to invade fashion's province quite apart from wedding con- siderations, though the alarm may be a false one. They would be most coquettish and charming, though, for bridesmaids’ purposes, those peasant frocks in fine stuffs and lovely colorings, and a peasant colf might add to the effect and mightily be- come a protty girl. The Watteau frock, too, which has made its reappearance in modish circles; though but tentatively, should be welcomed by the bride who wants a picturesque wedding and since these delightful old world models with their pointed bodices, thelr full skirts and panniers and Watteau backs are ac- tually worn by the occasional elegante, the Watteau bridesmald frock need not be useless after it bas fulfilled its chief purpose. Or one may jump from Louls XV.'s time back to the Renalssance, or the day of lma King Dagobert, and arry one’s bride: malds in straight falling mediaeval robes only, in this case the bride should for ONE OF BLUE SPOTTED AND WHITE LAWN AND ONE OF LINEN AND SOU- TACHED NET, other wedding and the frocks are all In finest creamy white with delicious big lingerie and lace bornets to match, trim- med In tiny plnk and yellow r A Callot mpdel which has been greatly admired this spring s being copled for another bevy of bridesmaids. The original model, which s shown here, Is in ltlac and white, white chiffon over white ) with white' satin folds trimming the odd swathing draperics. Around 'the white chiffon underskirt at the knees is drawn a sash of soft lavender satin which shows through the chiffon draperies after a fashion of which the famous house of Callot is apparently enamored this season. The girdle is of lavender satin—a de- lelous shade of lavender dashed with gray —and there 1s a fetching lavender satin coat lined with white satin, which also faces the collar and cuffs The bridesmalds’ frocks made from this model are in white and a lovely soft light &reen, and the coats are not Included, al- though two of the girls have ordered coats for use with the frocks leter. Another pretty frock worn at a recent wedding among the swart London set and now Dbelng copled here 18 of woft satln . and chiffon, all in pale pink, with a long scarf of lavender gauze drawn over the shoulders and falling almost to the bottom of the skirt, being held at the walst line by clasps and amethyst. The blg hat is to be trimmed In pink roses and lilacs. Frocks of net, very simple in line and braided In fine soutache, are worn by many of the summer bridesmalds and are ex- ceedingly useful for after wear. Thess are usually made with Dutch necks, and the Dutch neck idea prevails noticeably throughout the entire province of the bridesmaids’ frocks, although mnot every girl can wear this collagx. successfully, and if the Dutch neck is becoming to any” one of her bridesmaids-the wise bride will pro- hibit it for all. An embroidered net tunic falling only to the knees over a soft full skirt of chiffon of the same color Is the frock for a maid of honor who 1s to be the only attendant at one fashionable wedding In June, and, by the way, there has been some tendency toward reducing the number of the wed- ding party and simplifying the scenic ef- fect. The large wedding party means so much fun, however, that brides cling ten- aclously to the old idea. In some cases only one attendant maid s chosen, and Mttle flower glirls or a little page and maid complete the party. get information, and in some cases venture in to see for themselves what is being done. Mrs. Brock says that the American man is ready to give the American woman anything she wants, and the reason he does not glve her suffrage is because she does not want it. ——te Leaves from Fusxuion’s Notebook. ‘With the lined skirts petticoats are not oonsidered necessary; they must be worn, however, with the unlined and soft silk s the favorite material. Such petticoals $fiouid be short; ankie length often sut- ces. Marabou stoles mounted on_chiffon plaited chiffon fri arranged in strips Intersected with litue or boullllonnes, are pretty, and so are those where ' tulle ruches are employed. The effect Is beat when chiffon or tulle matches the color of the marabou. The Greclan inspiration in gowns, to which reference {s frequently made, 8 in- terpreted nowadays as shortwalsted, with drapery on the bodice, a peplum tunic tight sleeves and oversieeves, and the in- troduction round all the edges of any pus- sementerie available. Foulards are much In favor thie spring and come in new designs, particular] n striped effects and ow weaves. There are, too, certain tin foulards striped with what may be described as a basket weave in the same shade, u shower of dots in mu\{ sizes belng sprinkled over the whole striped surface. Many of the new belts are embroidered in colored silk, the tint repeating that in the tle and the stockings. The buckles are leather or enamel. Bome are worked on moire or on thick satin ribbon; the flow- ers Introduced upon them have Krench knots in thelr hearts, and are outlined with the same knots. Jewels are also in- troduced upon many. A hat that made its appearance recently 1s very smartly turned up ag one side, in & quaint effect, all in black except for the vivid green lining of the crushed back brim. Another was in ivory, with the brim lined with a lovely shade of deep rose. These hats are a change from the all-round down-bent brims now so famil- far, but they are not meant for every- {muz. as they give some women a raklsh 00] 3 The net gown is charming for summer wear—tine net in a soft string or ficelle shade, With unobtrusive spots like the dots In point d'esprit, or tiny rings.' These may be in self color or in black. With the latter may be effectively introduced pipings of black and trimmings of sou- tache, narrow black lace and velvet rib- bon, ' In one-tone net a good trimmin contrast is achleved by means of velvel ribbon In malachite green, violet, cerise and gray. i o it at About Women. Tom Thumb was a wonder that appealed to the people who are now between 60 clty who Is opposed to votes for women. and 80, when they were children, vet to day one reads of “Mrs ‘Tom Thumb" making a six months' tour of the Parisian theaters, which makes it seem as if she was as spry as the proverbal cricket. In point of fact the papers say she is 6. Summer camps for boys are widely po ular as a wholesome and delightful insti- tution. Some of the wiser fathers and mothers are awakening to the fact that fresh alr is just as good for girls as for boys, and are now sending their daugh- ters to summer camps for Eirls. The king has conferred the decoration of the Royal Red Cross upon Miss Mary Emily Gray, nursing sister, Queen Alex- andra’'s milifary nursing service for India, in recognition of the special devotion and competency dlsplayed by her in the care of the sick and wounded during the oper- ations of the late Mohmand tleld force. Dr. Mary Mille Patrick s at the head of the American College for Girls at Scutas the Asfatic suburb of Constantinople. I was founded in 1§71 ns a high school and Dr. Patrick, then little more than a girl herself, hecame connected with it soon after. 'Graduates of this college are now heiping to shape the history of eastern Europe and the Ottoman empire. Women of Roumania, Servia, Bulgaria, Persia, Mesopotamia, ' Egypt and other countries are educated there. There !s now a great reactionary move- ment going on in regerd to the pasteurize- tion of milk. In some cities there are compulsory laws requiring it. Dr. La Fetra is instructor in diseasos of children at Columbia university and chief of that department in the Vanderbilt clinfe, a fel- low of the Academy of Science ‘and is otherwise prominent in his professiory but he says that in his practice he has found that the use of pasteurized milk often leads to scurvy in children. Where mother milk {8 not available, there Is nothing like fresh milk and raw, he says, and he ia not in favor of sterilized milk. ROYAL WORCESTER ADJUSTO CORSEYTS srour destan TOUT women more than any other type of figure require specially designed corsets if they would attain the figure of prevailing fash- ion. The ADJUSTO will prove a revelation. 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