Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1910 — WOMEN’S STUDY OF BLACKSTONE [ARTICLE]

WOMEN’S STUDY OF BLACKSTONE

Miss Jeanie Fowler S»y« Knowledge Makes Them Better Clients. "Every -woman should study law. I do not mean that every woman should make a profession of it* hut that she should know what the law Is. There Is no more subtle or elevating study, nor one that has a greater tendency’to make a woman more intelligent and liberal minded, and withal a better woman, wife and mother.” That is the attitude of Miss Jessie Allen Fowler, and she has lived up to her teachings, the New York Evening Telegram says, by making a thorough study of legal matters herself. She claims that a woman who has studied law is enabled to take a deeper interest in the daily press and in all sorts of miscellaneous reading. "I know that that is the case from personal experience,” she said. “I. have actually been able to sift grains of real information from the chaff of gossip, scandal and triviality one constantly hears and sees since I have learned something of the law. With such knowledge women can come to more logical conclusions and will resort less and less to the woman’s proverbial reason, ‘Because.’ It would certainly sound queer and unreasonable for a woman lawyer to stand up In court and say. ‘Your honor, this man Is not guilty—because.’ "As women are becoming more interested in the arts and sciences and professions,’’ she said, ‘‘the more important it is that they shall be able to handle their own sex in looking after their property, business or even home matters. ‘ “There are many advantages that will accrue to the woman who has some knowledge of the law. She will make a better client and witness. Then the passing of the sixteenth amendment, which has yet to be added to the constitution, will, I predict, be the new bill of rights to give women the privilege of suffrage. That privilege makes them eligible for jury duty, and such work needs some legal knowledge.”