Show where acs the advantage whatever disadvantages a woman lawyer may bo under in the practice of hor profession sho has certain compensating advantages which berj brothers at the bar cin A little incident in the chambers part of the supreme court the other day will this point it was monday which is always the busiest day of the week in this branch of the court there wag an unusually long calendar this day and although it was almost I 1 the courtroom was still crowded with fifty or sixty lawyers who had been waiting impatiently since 11 to argue their motions or to get es parte orders bignel there was an unusually large pile of these orders on the judges desk waiting to be signed because his honor had been so busy that bo had been unable to attend to them A modest looking neatly dressed young woman came into the courtroom with some legal papers in her band she walked up to the rail while the clerk quickly came forward all attention he took the papers which she carried and handed them to the judge immediately while the court officers hustled around and brought her a chair the arguments of the legal lights were stopped his honor took the papers glanced over them quickly and put some hieroglyphics which stood for his signature at the bottom of them the clerk handed the documents back to the young woman and m less than five minutes after she entered the courtroom the woman lawyer had accomplished her object and gone back to her office just as she was disappearing through the door a lawyers clerk came up to the rail has the judge signed that order which 1 handed up thia morning he asked no was the icely he will not sign any orders before 2 or 3 new york tribune |