Contrary to previous anticipat tions, Judge Norris was one of the most smartly gowned women of the Samaria party. She is scarcely above average height, but carries herself very erect, thus giving the impression of being much taller than she really is. She is pure Celtic in type, with hair so black that in some lights it appears blue, eyes as blue as the sea on a summer day but glowing with intelligence and appreciation, a firm mouth and chin. When I met her (writes an enthusiastic representative of the ''N. C. Daily News") she wore a smart hazy brown silk travelling frock, with accordion pleated skirt and a little turban ct "haircloth" straw and bound with moire silk, surmounted with a diminutive fawn coloured ostrich plume. Lozenge shaped lapislaguli pendants hung from her ears.
Judge Norris has visited the majority of courts in every port of call and expressed herself as intensely interested in the manner in which justice is administered toward women in the various countries.
"Ts seemed to me, after visiting a Magistrate's court in Bombay, that our human family is very much akin despite race, custom or religion," she said. "Through the courteous invitation of the British Magistrate I was_ invited to sit with him and a Hindu magistrate in the domestic relations court, and during two whole days found that the same trials and tribula-
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