in Shanghai Lieutenant Commander C. Me-Cauley, captain of the U.S. gunboat Eleano, arrived in Shanghai last week for court-martial duty. He is accompanied by his wife, who is a lawyer and was sworn in at the U. S. Court on Saturday, this giving her the distinction of being the first woman lawyer admitted to practise in Shanghai.
Mrs. McCauley, who was Helen' Leary before she was married, was born on a big Texas cattle ranch in the Panhandle and until she came to China, she says, she has never been without a horse for a day in her life. She graduated from the law department of Texas University in Austin, in 1919, and since that time she has been doing volunteer work for the Associated Charities in a Free Legal Aid Department, which is one of the most effective and basically helpful lines along which, constructive work is now being done.
Some of the legal matters attended to by this department are the enforcement of labour laws limiting' the hours of women and girls' work; seeing that the work is don¢ under healthful conditions; the adoption of children; provision for taking children legally away from parents unfit to raise them; the protection of ignorant poor people from loan sharks such as instalment paying furniture, houses, ete.; making men work for the support of their families and turn their salaries over for this purpose. Mrs. McCauley wants to become acquainted with Chinese affairs and. she hopes to be able to do some interesting work here. Capt. and Mrs. McCauley are, at present living at the Astor House. The Captain is to be transferred to the U. 8. S. New Orleans and as that boat is to remain in Shanghai more or less permanently, they will be here for some time.
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