The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-03-24
LAWS MADE BY
WOMEN VOTERS
Some Of the Statutes the Color
ado Women Have Moth
cred.

People often ask what the women
voters in the States where they have
the suffarye have accomplished. Ac-
cordinng to writer in l,he Nautilus,
those of Colorado have "an inspiring
record This writer summarizes it
as follows:
Laws forbidding insuring the Lives
of children under ten years of age;
establishing a State Home for De
pendent Children, three of the five
members of THE board to be women;
requiring that at least three of the
six members of county visiting boards
shall be w omen; a pure food law;
making mothers joint guardians of
their childrtn with the fathers; RAIDS
ing the age OF protection for girls TO
eighteen; establishing a State In
dustrial Home for Girls, three of The
five members of the board TO be
women; rmoving the emblem from
the Australian ballot, our nearest ND
proach to adopting an eduoa lonal
qualification for suffrage, establishing
an Unfortunate sentence for prison
ers; requiring one woman physician
on the staff of the insane asylum; IS
tabliShing parental or Eruant schools;
providing for the care of The feeble
minded for tree preservation; for
the inspection of private elomosnary
institutions by the State Board of
Char ities; requiring in public schools
lessons on humane treatment of
animals making the Colorado Hum
ane Sotiety a State bureau of child
and animal protection; making edu-
cation compulsory for all children be-
tween eight and sixteen with a few
proper exceptions); porviding for the
examination of the eyes, ears teeth
and breathing capacity of school
children; making father and mother
joint heirs of deceased child; prowid-
ing dhas union high schools may be
formed by uniting school districts adj
jacent to a town or city; establishing
a StaheT travelling Library Commission,
to consist of five women from the
State Federation of Womans Clubs,
appointed by the Governor; maxi lg
the methods of the sweas box in con-
nection with the examination of
prisoners a felony; providing that any
person employing a child under four
teen in amy mine smelser.' MILL fac
tory or underground works shall be
punished by imprisonment in Hddi.ion
to fine; requiring joint signature Of
husband annd wife to every chattel
mortgage, sale of household goods
used by the family, or conveyance;
forbidding children OF sixteen or I'M
der ito work more than eight hours
day in any mill, factory, store or
other occupation 'that may be deemed
unhealthful; providing that no woman
shall work more than eight hours 4
day at work requiring her to be on
ner rect; making ~ cirinendl oiiehse
to contribute to the delinquency OF
child; making it misdemeanor to
fail to support aged or infirm parents;
prohibiting the killing of doves ex-
cept in August; abolishing the bind
ing out of girls committed to the
Industrial School; girls to be conf
mitted till twenty lone. and then II
considered reformed to be jarolled
and nanny others.
In Denver the women VOTERS have
also secured ordinances placing drink
ing fountains n the st \ garbage
recepticles at the cornaMsF and seats
at the transfer stations of the rtrett
cars, forbidding expectoration in
public places.parking certain avenues
and planting trees.