Though New Mexico has no constitutional bar to women sitting on juries, any attempt to institute a legislative act to qualify women for jury service is sure to meet with opposition from the women themselves, who primarily fear the enforced absence from home that such duty would entail. Nevertheless, in all probability, the privilege and duty of jury service will gradually be extended to the womanhood of this State. Such a change, to be sure, will be quite as revolutionary in the experience of the womanhood of New Mexico as was the newly acquired right of the exercise of the franchise.
And for the women of New Mexico it will be a most salutary experience. It will widen their scope of reasoning; it will give them a deeper insight into human emotions, human frailties and human motives; it will make real the law as daily applied, and above all, it will widen their vison and extend their sympathy and understanding in human affairs. And for all this, it will make them wiser citizens and better mothers.
Nor is the day long in coming, when, in the course of everyday affairs, men and women will meet as equals, each in sympathy with the other's qualities, not necessarily alike in each other, but just as the Lord intended, "eternally different"; but each seeking for the mutual advancement, achievement and betterment of that country under whose flag they choose to live.
NEW MEXICO
AUSTIN, Mary, (Mrs.), a native of Illinois, former resident of California (Lone Pine and Carmel-by-the-Sea). Writer. Author of 17 books, 4 plays and many magazine articles and stories; very much interested in community theatre movement and Amerindian art; translator of Amerindian poetry. Lectures extensively on literary and art topics; one of the founders of the Indian Art Fund. Member: National Arts Club, New York, N. Y. Home: Santa Fe, New Mexico.
AVERY, Jennie M., (Miss), a native of the state of Michigan, for 14 years a resident of New Mexico. Owner of Avery Bowman Company, a well-known Real Estate, Insurance and Abstract firm; has served two terms as director of Chamber of Commerce; for many years, chairman of Appraisal Committee of Mutual Building and Loan Ass'n.; past state treasurer of Insurance Agents Ass'n. Member: Business and Professional Woman's Club. Home: 403 Washington Avenue, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
BARKER, Ruth Laughlin, (Mrs.), born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, May 14, 1889, daughter of N. B. and Katie K. Laughlin, a life-long resident of the state. Married to William Judson Barker. Children: Jean L., Ruth K., Laughlin. Writer. Has traveled extensively. Has written magazine articles for Colliers, Sunset, Ladies Home Journal, House and Garden, House Beautiful, Echo; state correspondent for Christian Science Monitor; chairman of Indian Affairs Committee, State Fed. of Women's Clubs, chairman of State Press, League of Women Voters. Member: New Mexico Fed. of Women's Clubs, League of Women Voters. Home: 116 E. De Vargas St., Santa Fe, New Mexico.
BEAR, Grace Thorpe (Mrs.), born in Binghampton, New York, daughter of Rev. W. W. and Mrs. P. Thorpe, a resident of New Mexico for twenty-
