Judge Jean Notris Taking the Busman's Holiday on the Samaria Considerably less than a decade ago, the Woman Member of Parliament, the Woman Judge and the Woman Police Officer were subjects dear to the heart of the cartoonist, and the comedian of the music halls. And yet to-day woman suffrage is no longer a vital issue, we have come to regard the Woman Member of Parliament and the Woman Magistrate with unruffled equanimity.
Certainly Magistrate Jean 4H. Norris, of the City of New York circuit court, is a brilliant example of present day progress. Judge Norris recently visited Shanghai ug a member of the party of world tourists on the str. Samaria, and completely upset all preconceived ideas as to the unsuitableness of Women for the Bench. She has youth, beauty, feminine charm and manner—a worthy descendant of Portia, since her quick grasp of a situation or a condition is aided by an uncanny intuition. Instead of becoming hard and cynical from 10 years' practice at the Bar and three and a half years on thd Bench, her experience has developed qualities of tender sympathy, often found wanting in those of less experience.
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