LADIES AT THE BAR.

Evening Post, Volume XVII, Issue 548, 28 June 1879, Page 1 (Supplement)

LADIES AT THE BAR.

Now that it is judiciously decided that women are to be admitted to the bar, we may look forward to a complete revolution in legal proceedings. The ladies have been practising special pleading, and every kind of argument, down to the ad hominem, in the domestic circle since the days of Ere ; and if lawyers of the male persuasion think they will have a greenhorn to deal with when a woman steps into the court-room they will be egregionsly mist iken. The charmers have so many methods to fall back upon that there will be no resisting them. With a reliable flat-iron and an unerring aim, the fair advocate oan bring the most obdurate judge to see a case in any light she pleases. A grape-and-canister smile delivered among the jury will ensure the verdict she desires. An argument suoh as her husband is familiar with when he comes home latewill paralyse the opposing counsel, if he is a male. But hai a scene of inexpressible grandeur suddenly presents itself before our excited indignation ! Suppose the adverse counsel is not a male ! Scene : A Court-room— Angelina Smith for the defendants, loquitur : "The creature, your Honor, who has juat addressed this Court, in her last year's hat and a turned dreßs— " Seraphiuft Brown, for the com. plainant, interrupting : "I protest, your Honor, against the insinuations of the made-up hussy, who is trying to deceive an intelligent jury with a jute switch and false teeth 1" Here the atmosphere is suddenly obscured by a cloud of Hying hair and scattered ribbons ; the jurymen faint with terror, and, with a pallid visage, the judge orders a recess until counsel repaired damages ! By all means let the ladies practise. — San Francisco News-Letter.