Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1910 — True to Traditions of Sex. [ARTICLE]

True to Traditions of Sex.

“It was an Interesting experience, but I must own to being a little shaky about the knees when the crucial mo ment arrived,” said Mrs. Irene Buell, in discussing her recent visit in Washington, where, on April 26, she was admitted *to practice in the Supreme Court of the United States, according to the St. Paul Dispatch. “Of course,” she continued, “the whole affair is much more awe-inspir-ing than the State Supreme Court, because the judges come in dressed in their imposing silk gowns, having been cried out by an impressive bailiff, who closes his remarks with a “God save the United States.”’ Mrs. Buell spdke of the extreme formality observed and said she was asked to remove her h&t before proceed- • ing to the council table to take the oath. “The first thing I said when they asked-me to do that was: ‘Bat I don’t pee any mirror here.’ It seemed the natural observation to make until ] heard Senator Clapp, who was my sponsor, chuckle and murmur, ‘The eternal feminine!’ Then, after a formal address had been made to me, 1 took oath on the same Bible that Clay and Calhoun swore upon, that I would defend the Constitution and conduct myself In every way as befitted my office.’ ’’