Miss Phllbrook, whose plucky perse¬ 
verance gained her admittance to the 
New Jersey bar after the Supreme Court 
had denied her the privilege of being 
examined for admission because there 
was no precedent for admitting women, 
is practicing her profession and inci¬ 
dentally establishing precedents along 
the pathway hitherto untrodden by 
women. The other day, she appealed to 
the judge, before whom she was to plead 
a case, to be allowed to retain her hat 
in.court. It is against the rules of court 
etiquette. The judge was liberal enough 
to allow her request, as the rules were 
made for men. 
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The temperance people are waking 
up, at least their opposers are just be¬ 
ginning to realize that they have await 
ened, and great is the howl they raise. 
Since 1884. New York has had a law re¬ 
quiring instruction as to the effects of 
alcohol and narcotics in all schools re¬ 
ceiving support by the State. For 10 
years, this law stood with no penalty at¬ 
tached, and was almost entirely ignored. 
In 1894, a committee including repre¬ 
sentatives from the churches, W. C. T. 
U., Y. M. C. A., King’s Daughters, etc., 
began agitating the question of enforc¬ 
ing the law, and to this end an amend¬ 
ment was prepared and passed the Leg¬ 
islature last year. New York City schools 
are already running under the new 
regime, as a failure to comply with the 
law meant a loss of $700,000. The amended 
law will be very effective as long as it 
stands. The instruction begins in the 
primary department before the children 
can read. This is, perhaps, the most 
valuable feature of the law. There is 
small chance for inaction or incompe¬ 
tency under the law. It enacts in its 
20 th section that “no teacher shall be 
licensed who has not passed a satisfac¬ 
tory examination in the subject and the 
best methods of teaching it,” and that 
“ no State school money shall be paid 
for the benefit of any district, city, nor¬ 
mal or other school until the officer and 
board having jurisdiction and super¬ 
vision of such school have filed an affida¬ 
vit that he has made thorough investi¬ 
gation as to the facts, and that to the 
best of his knowledge the provisions of 
the act have been faithfully complied 
with during the preceding school year.” 
Physiology and hygiene form a part of 
the course prescribed, and knowledge of 
these will make the temperance instruc¬ 
tion more emphatic than it could be 
when taught to those ignorant of the 
laws of health. 
NEW COATS FROM OLD. 
M ADGE, the eldest daughter, is 14. 
She has just begun to go to the 
village school, and she has discovered 
that her coat, that was well enough for 
district school wear, shows off illy 
enough among her new mates. 
Coats suitable for school wear are 
cheap, indeed, this winter ; but even the 
$3 which would, in many instances, buy 
a pretty fair one, cannot be coaxed out 
of the purse remaining lean through 
potatoes and oats being but 20 cents or 
less a bushel. 
But perhaps father, or the big brother, 
has an overcoat of nice material that 
may be turned. And some of the styles 
are kind, though they do not look to 
be so. 
A cape made in gored sections, may be 
gotten from almost any good, old gar¬ 
ment. The “melon” sleeve, too, though 
ugly in itself, is the newest thing for 
the winter, and it lends itself kindly to 
old gores and fair-sized pieces. 
However, I wish especially to make 
note of a new style pattern—Fig. 3G— 
for Madge’s benefit, and I know that the 
proposed garment can be made a stylish 
success, because I have seen it done. 
The especial value of the pattern under 
consideration lies in the cut of the 
front to the coat. This is both novel 
and pretty, and it preserves the full, 
ripple effect belonging to everything as 
yet. But it allows the front of a coat, 
nearly half long, to be cut from the 
fronts of an overcoat, in such a way that 
the pocket slashes do not interfere. In 
case the section does not quite fit be¬ 
tween these slashes, a tiny fold or two 
in the bottom will draw the pattern into 
a different position, so that it may avoid 
them, and the ripple will be only slightly 
less. There is no dart in the front, 
which, at the bottom, extends to join 
the back. 
The under-arm form, as will be seen 
from the cut, needs only a small piece. 
This and the side-back form can be cut 
from the back of the overcoat (after the 
coat backs are cut) and from what re¬ 
mains of the front. It needs good plan- 
cuff, giving one of the novel trimming 
effects of the winter, and also one of the 
prettiest. 
The collar and an added fancy piece, 
A, making the front double-breasted, 
may be made of contrasting material, if 
so desired. All the seams in the model 
are double stitched; or they may be 
strapped, with braid, or with bias pieces 
of the material, if it is firm and close. 
It is desirable, however, to take pains 
that the stitching or strapping shall be 
done with loose tension, that it may not 
draw the seams, as this would spoil the 
fit, which, when well done, is unusually 
pretty. 
The back is cut exactly like any ordi¬ 
nary ripple back, rather wide at the 
waist line ; the side-back forms also fol¬ 
low the regular cut, except in being 
shortened to fit above the extension front. 
Of course, it is not expected that a 
novice can cut a coat, with the above 
directions as a sole guide. But one who 
is used to making over can remodel an 
ordinary coat pattern that fits well into 
the shape given, in order thus to get it 
out of the ill-shaped overcoat fronts 
more readily. myra v. noivys. 
A NEW COAT FROM AN OLD ONE. Fig. 36 
ning to get a full-sized coat; but for a 
half-grown girl like Madge it should be 
done quite easily. 
A very pretty, fair-sized sleeve, though 
not one of the largest, may be made 
from the coat sleeve by putting a gore 
on the under-arm piece at the top to 
widen it a little, and laying the bottom 
in shallow, lengthwise plaits for about 
four to six inches from the wrist. These 
plaits are stitched to place, and form a 
WOMAN’S EXCUSE FOR BEING. 
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nurse them and to care for them, and 
that hence this must be the purpose, 
and the sole purpose, for which women 
were created.” Is it in harmony with 
this that the Austrian imperial govern¬ 
ment denies, “ with brutal emphasis,” a 
plea for the higher education of woman? 
If so, when did a more short-sighted 
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illustrious authority were to prove that 
the only legitimate obligation of men is 
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emperors ; would not the nation abso¬ 
lutely converted to the notion at once 
set about founding more colleges, map¬ 
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It being the supreme calling for women 
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