An amusing experience in regard to juries occurred recently, which has' started a wave of comfort! throughout the Courts of Justice in the United States. America has! been warm this summer, excessively so, and in the New York County. Court twelve jarymen awaited the arrival of the District Attorney. They waited in their shirt sleeves, minus coats, but in spite of the! arguments set forth in favour of keeping them off the majority be-leved it would be a bit disrespectful to a State officer, They, like good martyrs, put them on again just before the District Attorney made his impressive entrance—coatless. Needless to say the rest followed Suit, Courts of Justice throughout} the United States are now fairly comfortable, although no man will serve on a jury if he can get out of even now. Jurors have been allowed to smoke in New York' courts for some time, both in their own deliberations and throughout} the trials. One wonders whether or} not witnesses should be allowed to smoke. Feminine witnesses have) been known to sway juries before, but female with a cigarette might) take away that element of helplessness and innocence which has been the chief asset of womankind upon the stand. On the other hand it might give the advertisers of Murad cigarettes a chance to prove a few of their miraculous theories as to the power of nonchalance.
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