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Women Lawyers in the United States. From Miss Annie M. McCoy, who gradu ated from the Union College of Law in 1888, I hear nothing; but the three ladies who graduated last June have all replied to my letter of inquiry. Mrs. Mary A. Ahrens, of Chicago, was admitted to the bar upon grad uation, and has been in practice since, her special object being to settle without litiga tion all cases which with justice to clients can be kept out of court.

She is of middle age, well-known as an ac tive worker in philanthropical and charita ble lines, and is spoken of as a bright, ambi tious, energetic, and intellectual woman. Miss Bertha E. Curtis, another of last sum mer's graduates, and a bright young girl, was admitted to the bar and began practice in Chicago at once. Her practice thus far has been miscella neous in its nature. Miss Minerva A. Doyle, the last of the women graduates from the Union College of Law, is a very fortu CATHARINE nate young woman indeed. Upon hev graduation last June at the age of twentythree, she was admitted to the bar and went immediately into her father's office in Watseka, I11., as a member of the firm, which reads at present Doyle, Morris & Doyle, and has been very actively at work since that time in preparing pleadings, briefs, and written arguments. Her father's health re quiring his absence this winter, much extra work has fallen upon her young shoulders in preparing for the November term of court, and taking on cases of his in the Supreme and Appellate Courts. Many women law-

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yers, old and young, will envy Miss Doyle her exceptional opportunities. There are at present four women students in the Union College of Law. Miss L. M. Starr and Miss K. E. Wallace do not intend to practise the profession. Miss Alice M. Albright, of Chicago, has been engaged for some years in court reporting, and is study ing with the intention of practising. Miss L Blanche Fearing, of Chicago, who will graduate next June, is a student of whose abilities I hear un usual praise, and who intends to devote her self to practice, though it is hoped that she will not altogether abandon literary work, in which she has gained a reputation above the ordinary as a poet. There is also in Chicago another legal institution, the Even ing College of Law, in which three women are studying, — Miss Emma Bautnan and Miss Cora B. Hirtzel, both of Chicago, who V. WAITE. expect to practise the profession eventually; and Miss H usten, from whom I have not heard. There are well-known women practising law in Chicago who graduated from other schools, but I will refer to them here. First, however, must be named the lamented Alta M. Hulett, a young and beautiful girl of remarkable ability and brilliant prospects, who lived only long enough to demonstrate what a woman could accomplish in a very brief time in her chosen profession of the law; and this proof, given when the new de parture was still in its earliest infancy, has