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Show THE DISH PAN OR THE JURY BOX? Many states have tried women on Juries with uniformly good results The "mixed" jury lias come In for less criticism, after the verdict, than has the aierage all man jury Appai-ently Appai-ently the woman juror is making good. But is Jury service as beneficial to woman? Her effect upon juries has been fine, but how about the Jury ef-j ef-j feet upon women'' 'It Is my thought that women should be free from Jury service," said Judge Alfred J Talley, of .New York, . ordering the sheriff of America's most j populous county to omit women from I jury panels Tut! Tut' Be not so hasty In the formation of your rejoinder! It Isn't I that Judge Talley Is opposed to woman suffrage that he so mirth, for the Judge lives In a suflrage city, a . suffrage county, a suffrage state, and j u suffrage nation. He has another J reason. Trust a Judge to die up a good I reason j "VS'omen should be exempted," an id j Judge Talley, because the work Si which the laws of nature have de- I signed for performance by women ) ul paramount importance to any serv 1 ic which they might be called upon j) to perform on a jury. It la part of a j divine plan that woman Is destine'd and qualified for the bearing of the I children of the race, and for the crea- ! Hon and guardianship of the homes I ol the world and of their maintenance in love and honor " I Thus Judge Tulley, with one mo- H lion of hi judicial jaw wipes the woman Juror out of existence- In his court room. In her earlier married dn.- woman must teach bBby to walk, talk and keep Din of the pantrv cookie Jar. Other Judge?, too, have ruled that women may he excused from Jury duty when there are little children in the home needine n mother's rare. There is no doubflnc the wisdom of such a decision and least of all. would an woman find tault with it. But there are davs. and many m theni, later on In a woman's married life, when children are not tied to her apronstrinps Usually at this period woman is as free as man for Jury service, she has her business, house work and he has his business, count lng money or laying bricks, or some other equally necessary' vocation. Judge Talley. however, rules that maintaining a home is of such vlial importance to the human race thai women must be excluded from Juries BO that no dish may go unwashed and no floor unswept. The dlshpan is of lremendousl greater importance than the jurv box. according to Judge Talley It were better, he intimates. tha man be yanked from his work of pro duclng food and getting it into the i home than that woman should be taken from her frying pan. The father who provides the heat, light, food, clothing and house may be spared from his Job, any day, to sit on a Jury, but the mother who darns the socks, polishes the cutglass. and arranges her daughter's social cam-palKn. cam-palKn. must be "protected against herself ' So says Judge Talley He does admit, though, that "some women would make better jurors than some men." Everybody else admits : that it would do mother a lot of good to swap the duly of "guarding and maintaining" the home "in lov e and honor," as Judge Talley suggests, for a few days' change on n jur I No home would be wholly wrecked jlf father had to wrestle with the dlah ,pnn th' fen evenings mother was en j Joying a Jury vacation from house (hold work. 00 |