w Pleading."----In 1880,
Cora A. Benneson, Quincy, was graduated from the Michigan
University law-school and admitted to the Michigan and Illinois
bar.----Ada H. Kepley, in practice with her husband at Effingham,
was graduated from the Chicago law-school in June, 1870, but was
refused admission to the bar. In November of that year, a motion
was made in the Court at Effingham that she should be allowed to
act as attorney in a case at that bar, and Judge Decius said that
though the Supreme Court had refused to license a woman, he yet
thought the motion was proper and in accord with the spirit of
the age and granted the motion. Mrs. Kepley was finally admitted,
January, 1881.----Miss Bessie Bradwell, graduated from the Union
College of Law of Chicago and admitted to the bar in 1882, is
associated with her parents, Judge and Mrs. Bradwell, on the
_Legal News_ and in the preparation of Bradwell's Appellate Court
Reports.

July 1, 1873, the bill making women eligible as school officers
became a law, and in the fall elections of the same year the
people gave unmistakable indorsement of the champions of the
bill, by electing women as superintendent of schools in ten
counties, while in sixteen others women were nominated. Many of
these earnest women have been in the service ever since. As the
practical results of woman's controlling influence as
superintendents of schools seems to epitomize her work in all
official positions, we submit a report compiled by Miss Mary
Allen West, made at the request of the Illinois Social Science
Association, regretting that we have not space for one of the
model reports of Miss Sarah Raymond, also for ten years
superintendent of the schools of Bloomington:

During the session of 1872-3, Judge Bradwell introduced into
the legislature the following bill, which became a law April
3, 1873: "Be it enacted by the people of Illinois,
represented in General Assembly, that any woman, married or
single, of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, and
possessing the qualifications prescribed for men, shall be
eligible to any office under the general school laws of this
State." A second section provides for her giving bonds.

At the next election, November, 1873, ten ladies were