Show UNEQUAL MARITAL RIGHTS Women Given Great Advantages In Recent Decisions From tho New York World One by one under the merciless Interpretations In-terpretations of modern law the husbands hus-bands of the land arc being stripped of privileges nnd exclusive powers In SU Louis us recently not d a wife was upheld who searched the pockets of her sleeping lordbutnomaslcr From Portland Me comes now the decision that a woman who took her husbands pocketbook from beneath his pillow did what could not be stealing And right over In Newark N J a Judge declares I that no man can stop a wife from talking talk-ing be 11 ever so much loo much so long as she confines her conversational exercises to her own home Theso legal pronouncements predicate a shifting of the burden of unequal rights as between the sexes They leave nan cy rights which woman is bound to respect after marriage and they leave him also with no earthly chance to get even He cannot go through his wifes pocket for being u man he cannot find it Ho cannot take from under the pillow a pockelbook which no Woman puts there when a whole china closet of covered dishes In handy And If he cannot stop the partner I of his Joys and Jars from talking unquestionably unquestion-ably he will be unable to talk back The Western Justice who recently held that a wife had a right to curry a latchkey did less to drive husbands to melancholy than has been done by his contemporaries In the three decisions here discussed He gave liberty on the one hand they snatch It on the other hand The question arises In view of her growth In privilege among Interests plainly material what does woman want of a little thing like the Voting franchise which represents to her at best but a form and theory |