| Show A s viv j V f P fa f A gd ISS SS co CORA A 4 j ASSISTANT corporation COUNSEL OF CHICA CHICAGO iGo nr firt woman ever appointed to like position petition in the west A sketch p f an ambitious ambition woman by caf felfe D corporation Col counsel luzel cora B hirtzel of chicago lately appointed ly by mayor harrison walks t talks lka and acts like a woman who likes to be a ulam roan she tare care a fig tor for delsarte society novels are philosophical flim flimsies she loves aback Tt ackeray eray and blackstone writes without putting patting the point ot of the pencil in her mouth and whittles with the edge of the knue knife blade toward her body she plants her foot down hard bard when she steps is in an expert at bringing legal fights to a compromise settlement wears shirt waists and collars and the biggest law firms in town trust her with the prepare on of their briefs she is and does til all this but she dodges when a man asks her how old she is proof that she is a woman despite the tact fact that her name is on the office door as a lawyer er ams hirtzel has lived in chicago a pod good part of her life she is what she is because she has earned the distinction it has never been her bar fortune 0 o D walk a path of roses it probably bould have made no difference had she jeen feen taught in her girlhood that the proper thing for a girl to do is to sit still look pretty and get mar married riedL ambition is ambition rich or poor she had ambition she says it was lor dunate in gratifying her zeal she was laying up treasure against the day when ambition and necessity to earn a livelihood might be one and the same game thing this was before women denied that their single place in life was waa beside the cradle mrs hirtzel reasoned with herself she concluded that had she been born a man rather than a woman she would have been a lawyer ah she reasoned more there was no reason why the woman who wanted waited to te be a lawyer should be de barred from eing being a lawyer simply because men thought bought she ought not to be one she see any reason why men gaall pick out the future for women dhow and she gradually allowed it to become known knowd that she was going to be a lawyer and possibly sit on the beeh it made a good many ot of the youn g men she knew laugh but she hu haa not heard of rny any of the scoffers sc offers becoming assistant corporation counts judge gary up in oshkosh was her first tut tutor she read lu in his office lier her parents parenti came from germany Germ auY they ey dont like to have women do much in the profesS professions IOUS in germany miss Flirt hirtzel zel did not inherit any prejudice along this une line and it did not particularly ticul arly matter that she did not get much encouragement among ong the men and women she knew she learned ta to think for herself early in life and she is still doing it ir the more she dug into the jirges library themore she became wedded toiler resolution ol ution Thal chenore Th enore hore she iliad we the more she saw there waitto waS jb tto bej ead but work aad id not play berlot lot the preparatory loare her to chicago ten years yeara aeo er edthe chicago law college L A dij I 1 oi pleasure at times tor roi hii ner k to flit atte e single woman in the ii ve men who finished n 1890 ashe she JW felt conspicuous dai 3 her as ouia t va a 60 alfi days W witcher with ith her le 1 as the men div a plain zaga ta ly IT yai AJ R sid efer i g is k ca 1 a e i tica al j who hag lees beez the honored cmorey as she alle has bm and struggle has left ZO no mark there axe are no wrinkles in her face and her keen eye la Is a true sign ot of a shrewdness ahr eidness i which lawyers have learned she sh la I 1 short in stature without to value mannerisms neri sms plain in speech convincing businesslike she carries her cards with her but they are not the common cards that women use 0 AC 4 MM MISS CORA B D HIRTZEL |
