This is a cartoon showing what if there were an all women jury in late Victorian/Edwardian times. As far as I know women did not sit on Juries at that time since the qualification was, I believe, that you had to be an elector and women did not have the vote at that time. It is quite a strata of society represented and the only woman without a hat is the obvious pauper. There is even a very butch woman wearing a man’s hat. How times have changed since it has become very common as many of you know for women to wear hats such as the trilby adapted for female wear and you do not have to be butch to wear them.
The cartoon is by Charles Dana Gibson and is in the Public Domain. Charles Gibson was an illustrator and came up with the famous Gibson Girl series for a 20 year period straddling the Late Victorian/ Edwardian period arrount the turn of the 19th century to the 20th century.
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Most of those hats are more luxurious than the most luxurious hat that a woman would wear in her lifetime these days!
Poor pauper lady!