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Show ! ; ; ; : "r ' Woman Lawyer Wins Highest Legal i j Honor Ever Accorded Her Sex ;! 1 i 1 . ,1 . SAN FRANCISCO, June 23. Mrs. ; Annette Abbott Adams, who is leaving her job here as United States district attorney to be assistant attorney gen-: gen-: eral, the highest legal office ever held by a woman, will depart from what she holds dearest when she goes to Washington next month her home. Though almost coldly intellectual, and able as any man in her calling, sho admits she's happiest, when cooking, dusting and washing dish.es In her charming five-room flat near the.ocean. Books Arc Companions. Mrs. Adams lives alone, but she is not lonely. Her only companions are rows of books, mostly of a kind called j "old-fashioned," and some of the finest oil landscapes that evor decked a wall. She had just finished breakfast which she had cooked and eaten bj herself, when she answered tho hell. "My friends ask me why I don board," she explained as she dealt a telling swing with a fly-swatter on thi last fly in the sunny dining room. "Well, I find my greatest relaxation after the grind of the office ih onuae-work. onuae-work. I guess It's because I love my j home so much that I have taken such tan interest in the women's fight against the high cost of food and clothing. cloth-ing. I'm an active member of the Housewives' league., and I've often used my office and spare time to do all I can to help out. i Boycotted 16-Cent Milk. I "I've been preaching the gospel of (saving. I boycotted 16-cent milk, I refused to eat 10-cent potatoes and I never bought a 17-cent loaf of bread in my life And," she addod with a gesture ges-ture of a shapely foot, "1 have stopped wearing silk stockings." "Common sense that Is what Ara'er-Ica Ara'er-Ica needs now. If the -majority shows common sense the discontented minority minor-ity v.-ill. I'm rather optimistic about the future " Mrs. Adams Js a lypjcal westerner. Raised in the mountainous Plumaj county, she has fought every inch of her way. Her favorite poem is one of Henley's that ends, "I am the captain cap-tain of my soul." At the University of California she j was a member of the Delta Delta Delta 'national sorority, but she never "did i society." After graduating in 3904 she I was principal in an up-country high school, but, dissatisfied with her salary, sal-ary, she came back to college for her law degree in 1914. She won her first case up in Alturas when she got a $900 judgment for a cattleman against a sheep man who let his stock spoil her client's pasture. Since then she's been winning cases right along. When she went to Washington, Mrs. Adams will store her household goods, and hope for the best from the elections. elec-tions. If the Democratic party, of which she has been a life-long member, loses, she will return to take up. private pri-vate practice, and open her flat again. oo i : 0 . :fr. Mrs. Annette Abbott Adamc, assistant attorney general, admits she's happiest hap-piest when "housekeeping." i |