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am ages
of Law and Lawyers
N one of the Cook
county courts the
other day sat an ex
quisitely dressed
woman. Her gown
was a dead black
cloth. She wore the
daintiest of black
bonnets. A white
I tie, her white face.
9 the aristocratic lit
- tie hands ungloved
• and a small white
r lace handkerchief
I only served toem
J phasize the piti
ableness of the lit
tle figure—and, oh,
OUC « Vi o
jes:
heliotrope in the lapel of her
tting coat. During all the long
(that her case was before the court
freely looked up once, and never
her glance stray about the
She seemed absolutely crushed.
the defendant against a long
Liidable array of charges that
|ated moral perversttvVif an un
lure. The testimony as it was
\t by w itness after witness was
l>rmidable is were the charges
Yet afl the while she sat
Last eyes, a' living picture of
\nd woe
Iseemed almost brutally Pic
and masculine to try so
ey.fone of the ablest at the
Lappeared oblivious of the
J
TELV
leased upon probation by the superior
court. Her husband, destitute of good
looks and possessing only a moderate
wardrobe, was sentenced to the Massa
chusetts reformatory.”
These two cases are types that have
been of unwritten interest to lawyers the
world over ever since the law came to be
a science—or art. They are types of
what a London paper recently called
‘‘dressed for damages.”
While there is no "chair” in any well
regulated law school set apart to dis
cuss millinery, or tears, or fair, sad
faces, yet every lawyer recognizes the
potency of these little incidentals In a
law court, and while every good lawyer
would‘far rather lean on "the law and
the evidence,” there are times like
those quoted when appearances have got
to count against testimony, and it has
come to be an unwritten law that an at
torney’s duty extends to his clients’
wardrobe and "make-up” in court.
"It used to be a rule.” said one of Chi
cago’s great criminal lawyers, when
questioned about this matter of "dress
ing for damages.” "that a lawyer should
►take the, case of anyone whoFwished to..
employ him, even if the client . onfessed
his guilt, and do the very best to < itar
him. Nowj however, many at tor:.< ;• s
will not takw a case unless they arc as
sured of the cnUfs innocence. You
know the advice the old law professor
gave his class: ‘If you have the law on
your side, stick to that. If you have the
evidence, harp on that; and if you have
neither law nor evidence, holler like
-!’ Well, ifs the same about this
thing of appearances in court. It’s the
duty of a lawyer to make the most of
every detail he can command, and I
have no doubt that many lawyers on oc
casion coach their clients about ‘dress
ing fttr the jury.’ as it might be called.
“But there is almost always the dan
ger of a faux-pas in making up for the
part. Once. I recall, a man sued a cor
poration that I was representing for
damages for the loss of his wife in a
wreck. On the crucial day the plaintiff
came into court dressed most solemnly
in black, with even a crepe band on his
hat. His face. too. was dressed in a
most woe-begone style, mouth down at
the corners, eyes sad. with a far-away
look and a real or well gotten-up pallor.
But he neglected his necktie, which was
a most vivid and aggressive red. I was
able to completely spoil his whole
mourning get-up by pointing to his gay
necktie, and exposing his shallow at
tempt to work upon the sympathy of the
jury,, got a verdict which threw him out
of court.
“But there is less danger of a break
when the client is a woman. Women
are better actors than men. and they are
strong on tears. Now. if that little wom
an the other day had been a man. the
heliotrope boutonniere would have been
brazen and impudent—no matter what
garb he wore—but with the little wom
an every juror w'ould say to himself:
‘Poor little thing, she is trying to brave
it out with that little flower!’ No law
yer ever got her up. Ft was a woman’s
wit that did that. It was too subtle for
a man. or if a man he was drawing on
some experience he had had with a
woman ’—Chicago Record-Herald.
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peace conference. You know that
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and there was as much as $1.25 a word
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press rate. The correspondents wera
sending a lot of matter, and, of course,
the Japanese messages had to be
li.instated in a way before they could
11 -ent. The Morse code can't cope
■ft the 57,000 ideographs that the
lja.‘ language is made up of. so the
Lla, uTcspondents used to write the
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messages phonetically in English
charac-i'-rs ami send Their messages m
that way. They were read off and
transferred to Japanese type in Tokio.
Of course, the telegraph company
could not read them, and as the limit
in size for a cable word is 15 letters,
the Japs used to divide their mes
sages up regularly into English letters
in blocks of 15. No word was ever
longer or shorter than 15 letters, and
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way and stand for it.
‘"The chief operator used to kick
and complain occasionally, but he
could not go back of the explanation
that each of the 15 letter groups was a
Japanese wi.rd spelled phonetically.
Eut he swore Japanese was tin* moat
queerly regular language he ever saw.
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"It is a wonder to me,” said a state
department clerk, who was listening
to the story, “that, the Japs did not
use their code book. At least there is
one in China, and 1 suppose there is
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