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Show Hj Woman and the Law. B It may surprise uouie of our lud H fiionds tokhow thai in tiruty-seven ol H these United States a married mothei H . has no legal right to her children. IHjy In sixteen suts a wife has no ritilst IHiL 'o her own eurnings outside ol her home. 9H In ( )(tht states a uoiuhii has n right Y-ss - j to her own property after marring. 9jH .) In Hcvon states there in no law coin ;? pulling u man to aupiK-rt his family. Taking things to h.-art, jiroinlitent woman of New Yoik nave found thv fl)M Kational Legislativ', League, for the. JHp pnrpoto of doiny away with them. DIs jm4 ' cusiiiiLj tlieee things the Now York -flHf V Journal is led to lemark : Wc hd the) aHl maysuccoed. If woman who bear child ifn, who nurse them in sickness, uliote e.xistauce Is bound up in babyhood have Ihw no right to their bahier, who on enith T litis? H It seems a strange fact that the le- B murkable legislators who passed this 'H law in thltth-sovt'ii states veie once H Imhies tlemsclvw. Prrlmps the en- fl i rlculuui of an incubator would have 9Q ' mnde them think and act differently. H And why should not a wife Imvo a tf" iiflit to bet own earninwt What jus- Hj tice is thpie in timt law whlc'i prevails H insixteeu states which allows a recreant H nnd drunken hushund to df spoil his , wife of the money she has eai ned ? Vr Who gave the small atom shaped after V the fashion of Adam the right to op- I jness and bulldoze the smaller atom shaped after the fashion of live? Mot Ices idiotic is the law prevailing in eight states whnh tiiUs away Hit risht of woman to her own property a After marriage, Thus the marriage s It law in these states may 1m umde the 1 vohlcls of downright hievery by men ,. i who oato nothing for Ui Wndlty of the ,( I "" " Tpw.Mlohlgwi Suipir iih. ' I ' ' |