El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-20
Queer Laws For Women
North Carolina and Missouri Make
Women Virtually the Slaves
of Their Husbands.
Nv Wfnffred Black
BY Winifred Black
ToRTH CAROLINA = don't /!

- FORTH CAROLINA - don't you
know about it? I didn't either.
L till I went there and then I
found out I saw a notice in the paper
one day
Whereas" said the notice. whereas.
my wife. Mary So and So, has left my
bed and board without my permission;
I hereby enjOin al persons to refrain
from giving aid, comfort or employment
TO said wife under extreme penalty Of
! the law"
l laughed; what a medieval gump."
/ 1 thought 4 wonder if he wears a tin
coat and helmet"
I spoke to a lawyer about it; he didn't
laugh at all That man isn't a gump,''
said the lawyer, hes just a brute-and
J he can do tin this state"
ment
Have you locked I'D or fined for
giving his runaway wife a cup of tea or
asking her to stay all night, or giving
her floor to scrub, and paying her for
It That woman is that mans wife
she belongs to him like the rest of his
/ livestock. If you find her running
away, you must corral her and give her
back, Just as you would old January
or Tge-that's the law in North Caro-
That woman is that mans wife. she
can leave him, no matter what ne does
to her She belongs to him just as his
are 'endcing' her, and the law is strong
against -enticing' in this state"
And when / went to the station there
were no crowds of women there tryfne,
to get out Of the state.
Every time L see an old maid fro
( North Carolina after this L am goi
to know that I am looking at a ser
bic woman
Every time look at married "
an from North Carolina, I shall feel
II | were looking at beaten slave,
and perhaps I shall be-Who knoWs2
But there's MissOuri-Gueer things
the Missouri laws I know a woman
down there who had bad husband
who beat her and abused ner buf Sha
stood It for the sake OF her children.
one day the bad husband ran awav
ana the VIE went to work washing by
the day, TO keep roof over the chill
dren-s heads, and when she tried to
make her husband help her out with
the rent the law said no the woman
IS Keeping roof over those ehiIdren's
mead, she IS giving them a meal dav
the man won't have TO help" and he
didn't for that is the law in Missouri
SKIN deep, some civilization, it seems
to ne. ne
need what silly cry that is Did
any class ever have its rights when anv
other class had all the say about ito
Is there man in this country who
would be willing to let women make the
laws governing him. without his hav-
ing any voice at ALP
-Ae@A Ae-e5c II the pEOLecUOn OF WOu1-
an, and the duty Of a man." said a nice.
kind anti-suffragist the other dav.
asked her if she had observed that
nlne-tenths Of the divorces were OBJ
ta1ned by women.
Not so crazy for that kind of 'protec-
ton. as they used to be. seems to me-
said T wonder why"
And the nice, kind anti said was not
logical, and she hinted that I was mot
WOmanly, and she said she was amazed
TO see me so bitter. but I wasn't sur
prlsed at ALL had just come from
North Carolina BY way OF Missouri
that was all.
wish I knew something definite
ABOUT the laws concerning women in
all OF the other states-dOesn't some
body know some statistics2 They'd be
so enlightening.
I'd love to know positively about that
whipping business, and wonder if the
little girls funny wish will ever come
anyWhere-eve in North Caro-