It is always as well to learn, more especially when one can do 's0 on authority which one may regard as roliable, in what one's true vocation really consists. Mr. A. 0. Plowden, the Mary-Iobone Stipendiary Magistrate, who from his wide experience of men and women should, I suppose, be entitled to express an opinion on the subject, affirmed last night that woman's function in lifo is to captivate, not to compete with man. The occasion was the annual " Ladies'
Night" of the Hardwicke Sovioty, and as it was known beforehand that a discussion was to take place regarding the dosirability of the admission of women to the Bar, or their exclusion from that honourable profession, the attendance of members was larger than usual. Mr. L. Atherley-Jones opened the discussion, and argued in women's favour that if she trained herself so as to be able to pass through the educational ordeal to fit her for the practice of any profession, she should not be excluded from it because she happened to be s woman. In other countries—notably Canada, the United States, and Russia—women had been admitted to the practice of the profession of advocacy and he moved: "That the admission of women to the Bar is a subject proper for the deliberation of Parliament." From this Mr. Plowden disagreed. He said he regarded the motion as "mad and mischievous." If women were allowed to go to the Bar, the first thing they would quarrel about would be the kind of costume they should appear in; and was it intended to allow only unmarried ladies to practise or was the privilege likewise to be conferred on those who had husbands? Imagine a man opposed to his wife or still worse to his mother-in-law. A comely young Indy would probably be snapped up at the end of the first week, only the "old maids" would be left and they, eh
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