lett said: "I shall never again know a
moment of such supreme happiness." We can only add in this
connection that after a most vigorous examination she stood
at the head of a class of twenty-eight, all the other
members being gentlemen. This time the Supreme Court made
the amende honorable, courteously and cordially welcoming
her into the ranks of the profession on her birthday, June
4, 1873, and at the age of nineteen Miss Hulett commenced
the practice of law.

But Miss Hulett's career, so full of promise, was soon ended. The
announcement of her untimely death, which occurred at San Diego,
Cal., March 26, 1877, sent a pang to the hearts of those who knew
her personally, and of thousands who regarded her with pride as a
representative woman. A Chicago correspondent says:

The daily press of the city have already borne ample
testimony to her professional talents and success and to the
esteem and admiration accorded her by the bar of Chicago and
by the general public; for her somewhat exceptional position
as well as her ability had made her one of the marked
characters of the city. Her short life, so successful and
brilliant to the public eye, was not without its dark and
thorny places. Unusual responsibilities of a domestic
nature, opposition of various kinds and keen disappointments
only nerved her to greater persistency, and her courage was
upheld by the generous and abundant recognition which she
received on every hand from leading members of the bar--a
recognition for which she never failed, when opportunity
offered, to express her sense of profound obligation--and
she was accustomed to say that the law was the most liberal
of the professions. Much as Miss Hulett had accomplished
hitherto, it was felt that she had only crossed the
threshold of a career of surpassing usefulness; all things
seemed possible to one so richly endowed; her mental vigor
seemed matched by a _physique_, the apparent type of
blooming health; but the seeds of disease were inherited and
only awaited a combination of circumstances to assert their
fatal power. Absorbing enthusiasm for her profession, and
th