The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Women on Juries 
Washington is one of tho States which 
give women the right to serve on the jury 
on equal terms with men. Jury service 
is limited to those who pay a tax of at 
least .$1 a year; thus, since all property 
acquired after marriage is community 
property here, $2 taxes gives the liability 
to jury service to both husband and wife. 
Some objections naturally occurred to 
this, but they were silenced by sending 
with every jury service to a woman a 
waiver, by signing which she is relieved 
from attendance at court without the 
necessity of other excuse than her sex. 
The mother of young children would 
naturally take advantage of this, but a 
woman who can get away from home does 
not usually object to serving. When the 
assessor comes round he asks if the wife 
will serve if called upon, always putting 
down nationality’"" 
It seems to me that with woman suf¬ 
frage should also go some requirement 
from the woman voter of a knowledge of 
American principles and of the English 
language At present a woman from 
abroad can come here, marry an Amer¬ 
ican citizen and vote after a year’s resi¬ 
dence in the State. I have never been 
asked to give up my allegiance to King 
(Jeorge, nor if I even knew the name of 
the President, as every naturalized citizen 
would be. All that I suppose my husband 
is supposed to look' after. There are 
women here who speak English haltingly 
and are just typical old-style hausfraus. 
but legally qualified to serve on juries. 
I was called on the December, 1914, 
venire, in the Superior Court of Pierce 
County. December 7th (Monday) the 
list was checked off and men who wished 
to be excused had a chance to lx* heard. 
There were about an equal number of 
women and men, the average age of the 
women perhaps greater than the men. 
most of them being between .‘15 and 50. 
December was a very convenient time for 
me; no great amount of work at home 
and the time spent in the city—where I 
had to take a room—was welcome, as 
affording more leisure than at home. The 
allowance was .$3 a day and mileage. As 
this was scarcely more than a laborer’s 
wage, a business man was making a real 
sacrifice in serving, and most of the men 
were either business men or farmers. To¬ 
day the shipyards are on strike against 
a wage of $4.12 a day for laborers, but 
’the jury pay has not increased. 
The juries are called without regard 
to. sex, and so far as I could tell no dis¬ 
crimination was made by the lawyers in 
the two cases I was on. In one case 
women were in the majority, in the other 
men, and a third jury sitting at the time 
had equal numbers. However, the last 
day I was in court a jury was being called 
to try a damage suit against a railroad 
for personal injuries, and the railroad’s 
lawyer was certainly trying to eliminate 
the. women, as being more likely in op¬ 
position to him. using up his peremptory 
challenges on them ; there was one lone 
woman left on that jury when he was 
through. 
One jury was locked up all night, and 
the jury I was on did not reach a verdict 
that evening till 8 p. m. Perhaps we 
were helped to a decision by the fact that 
the other jury had the only sleeping , ac¬ 
commodation. I had two meals' at the 
county’s expense, and I think that even 
the men would agree that it is much 
pleasanter to have women’s company on 
such occasions. 
The cases at which I attended were 
both damage suits against the city, arising 
out of changes in the street level, and 
there was practically no dispute as to 
there being damage, only as to the 
amount. There was not. so far as T could 
tell, any sex line in -the discussions in the 
jury room, and I believe we decided to the 
best of our ability according to the evi¬ 
dence. In one case it was not unanimous, 
but 10 out of 12.is all that is necessary 
here in a civil suit. Some of the women 
did not believe in women doing jury duty, 
but thought they must serve when called. 
At lunch time, several of us would go to 
the same place and I have some pleasant 
memories of the acquaintance I made. In 
all I put in only seven days at court, and 
on two of those .was excused almost ini' 
mediately. Christmas seemed to have 
made for compromises in some cases, so 
that we got off very lightly. 
AMY L. IIEKPLE. 
Women Jurors in Idaho 
Women do serve on juries in the State, 
hut it is not compulsory. We have had 
entire juries of women and mixed juries, 
and one of the leading lawyers of the city, 
m fact several of them whom I have con¬ 
sulted. tell me that it is entirely satis¬ 
factory. The reason why it is not com¬ 
pulsory is this: The law has never been 
amended since woman was given the vote 
so as to make >t clear, the pronoun being 
in the masculine gende . however there 
has never been a question when she has 
served, and her service has been emiueutlv 
satisfactory. 
Idaho is a very progressive State, and 
its two women Representatives have been 
accorded a royal welcome by the men of 
the House.. Women are at the forefront 
in everything, and are doing valiant 
service. emma f. a. drake, m. n. 
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