e cares of a rapidly increasing practice, made her
overlook the insidious danger lurking in a cold, and not
until her alarmed physician ordered her to the soft climate
of Southern California did she comprehend her danger. This
peremptory order was a terrible shock, and the forced exile
from the field of her hopes and ambitions, more bitter than
death. She never rallied, but continued rapidly to fail
until the end came. At a meeting of the bar of Chicago, held
to take action in commemoration of the death of Miss Alta M.
Hulett, attorney-at-law, the following was one of the
resolutions adopted:

_Resolved_, That although the legal profession has hitherto
been almost, if not altogether, considered as exclusively
for men to practice, yet we freely recognize Miss Hulett's
right to adopt it as her pursuit in life, and cheerfully
bear testimony to the fact that in her practice she never
demeaned herself in any way unbecoming a woman. She was
always true to her clients and their interests, but she was
equally true to her sex and her duty; and if women who now
are, or hereafter shall become, members of our profession
shall be equally true, its honor will never be tarnished,
nor the respect, good-will and esteem which it is the duty
and pride of man to accord to woman be in the least
diminished by their membership.

Which, translated, means that men are not only ready to
welcome into one of their own professions women having the
requisite intellectual qualifications, but that the welcome
will be the warmer if the women entering shall not leave
behind the more feminine attributes of the sex. Portia did
deliver judgment, but the counselor's cap became the pretty
locks it could not hide, and the jurist's cloak lent
additional grace to the symmetry and litheness of female
youth.

M. Fredrica Perry began the study of law in the office of Shipman
& Loveridge, Coldwater, Michigan, in the winter of 1870-71. She
spent two years in the law-office and then two years in the
law-school of Michigan University. On graduating from the
law-school in March, 1875, she was admitted to the Michigan bar.