Show WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING Jud Judge o Goff recently ordered a woman lawyer to remove ovo her hat while whilo pleading pleading plead plead- ing a casc case and the woman hn lawyer yer Mrs Sophie Mayer thinks it will wiB lead to hairdressing establishments in iu tho courthouse The Tho avern average o woman whether ho bo be learned earned or otherwise is apt to take moat inot of her hair down with her while removing her head head- gear I I think that Justice Goff has done a avery avery avery very good thing thing said Mrs Mayer if ii ho he means what I think he docs does As lon lonas long longas as a woman her hat which marks her absolutely ly from the men lawyers law laws her femininity is most decidedly I marked and 1 I think that Justice Go I meant to give the women a better I Chance hanco by bringing bring them more into the the customs followed by men of the legal profession A man is dressed There is no reason why hi hip attention should be diverted dh from his work bv by his clothes A woman who wears large hats or any hat at all is not as free and untrammeled as a man Unconsciously the tho idea that her hat haL may maybe maybe maybe be askew sometimes creeps into her mind and if there is anything that will make a woman look dreadful or will wiIl distract her attention it is the realization realization realization tion that her hat is not on straight Perhaps the cap and gown for women lawyers will be the solution of the dif dif- firu ty And again woman storms forth that she sio should do the proposing The principal principal principal prin prin- cipal woman enthusiast in this case is Miss Alberta M. M Hill lull a prominent member member mem morn ber of the young younge group of suffragists Miss bliss Hill quotes the example of queens and says But But it seems to me that from a purely logical log point of view view all women should do the proposing These queens did dirt it ii because it-because of their rank But every overy woman is a queen in her own ri right ht and really the superior of any man Then logically she should choose him not he condescend in lordly fashion to choose her Dimly vaguely women have ve always always always al al- al- al ways had some sort of reco recognition of this fact They have not been able to express themselves frankly for exactly exact exact- ly lv the same reason that they have not been able to go to tho the polls and vote Men have hayo been in the tho majority and their greater eater physical strength h has prevailed prevailed pre pro supported all an their foolish pre pro One of these prejudices was that woman should have no voice in in the government Another was that she should not be allowed to choose tho the father of her children Both are arc equally silly At tho actors' actors field da day a hobble skirt race was held Thin rhin women were hobbled in tightly but those ladies suffering suffering suf suf- fering from avoirdupois were allowed an extra t two o inches for every ten pounds pounds- Tall women were tied in within with with- in eighteen inches of their insteps Tho The hobble skirt by the tho way continues continues con con- to gain in popular favor in spite of dismal to the contrary The German advocates of woman womans woman's 8 suffrage want to be on the same footing footing footing foot foot- ing as men and for this reason announce announce an an- themselves as ready for war service |