Rose Falls Bres has been admitted to the Bar of three States, Louisiana, Kentucky and New York, and she has had twenty years' experience in State and Federal courts. This work which passes on to other women the result of her long study of the law must prove an invaluable textbook to those who are interested in civic betterment. To clubwomen it comes as an answer to a demand for a presentation of the laws in an understandable way. To all womer I cordially endorse and recommend it. жапування ALBANY, N. Y., March 30, 1918. I THE WOMAN GOD GAVETH "AND of the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man made he a woman." For forty succeeding centuries it was only the peculiar attributes of the feminine nature which were thought worth woman's while to cultivate. Yet a great mass of historic fact gives evidence that it was not alone the feminine attributes, but in larger measure the exercise of wisdom and virtues neither masculine nor feminine which brought increasing fulfillment of the prophecy contained in the twenty-eighth verse of the first chapter of Genesis: "God gave them joint dominion." Notwithstanding the gross wickedness of Cleopatra she had the virtue of patriotism and was true to her country and her people, while Marc Antony was a traitor and a deserter. Unlovely as the memory of Aspasia comes to later generations she had such subtle wisdom and wit she held Pericles her slave, and Socrates, wisest of heathen sages, not only her admirer but her friend. It was not alone the personal attractions of Abagail which gave her place in the First Book of Samuel, for David blessed the Lord God of Israel for having sent her to him, and, for her "advice." It was the courage and martial spirit of Deborah which delivered Israel from the Canaanites. And Cicero, said of Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus, wife of Tiberius 13 Gracchus, "Cornelia, had she not been a woman, would have deserved first place among philosophers." In this day, and in this land of modern chivalry, the moral qualities of the woman are highly valued; she is admittedly the conservator of domestic purity, of social decorum and of public sentiment. Also, wise and reasoning women are no longer condemned for witchcraft. It is the dual creature, the good mother and home-maker, the conservator of domestic purity and public sentiment, who can take her brother's place in war and commerce when there is need, who is "the glory of the man." Cornelias of this era are not denied first place among philosophers because of sex, but there are no blaring trumpets to herald them and their pay envelopes are not plethoric. There are Messalinas as well as Lucretias, for roses and weeds will always grow in the same soil. But as in the days of yore it is the Lucretias who preserve the republic. This Age of Woman has produced a race where the question of sex is being put more and more in the background to play an ever decreasing part in the conflict of life, for all humanity is seeking, and finding saner levels. The peculiarly feminine attributes, or wiles and sweet sentimentality, breeding and broiling, are subordinate to reason and that ambition which has won for woman an assured place in the man's world of war and work. Women and men grow more and more real comrades, interdependent parts of the machinery of commerce and government which makes the world go round. In ancient Babylon there was a monument set up in a central place on which was inscribed the laws so that citizens might there look up their citations of legal |