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Show West Virginia. Fifteen years, Delaware, Mon-, Mon-, tana. J Si xteen yars. A rkansas. Colo-; Colo-; rado. District of Columbia, Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts M ississippi, New i Jersey, New York, IVntisylvania, IElM.de Island, So.ith Dakota, Tennessee, Ten-nessee, Washington, j Seventeen years, Florida. ; THE ACE OF CONSENT. It is a disgrace lo ITah that her name is found where it is in the j following "black -1 ist." The "age i of consent" should by all that is j good be eighteen, when a girl j reaches her majority. Why should j the laws permit her to step freely ! into a bagnio, or sell her most priceless of treasu res before they will allow her to legally dispose of a doll, toy or pin? The Arena graphically preseids a ' black list of States, showing the limit at which fathers, brothers ! and husbands have placed the age at which a little girl may consent ! to her ruin:" ; Ten years, A I aba nut, North ( Carolina, South Carolina. i Twelve years. Kentucky, Louisiana, Louis-iana, Texas, WiM-onsin. Thirteen years, Iowa, New Hampshire, Utah. Foil rleen yen i s, A riona. Cal i- I fornia, Connecticut ,( !ei i rgi a, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, ( Michigan, "Minnesota, .Missouri, ; Nevada, New Mexico, North , Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, |