The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-11-16
Queer Laws About
Women
By wINIFRED BLACK.

''oh." cried the lit,le boy, ''oh. the
devil Is whipping his wife
MY" sighed the little girl, my,
wish his wife would get her turn and
whip him for a change, I'm sure he
needs it,"
I looked from the narrow window Into
the wide world and saw the little brown
boy and the little rosy girl running 10 get
In out OF the rain. and the sun was shin
Ing glorously AT the same time SO then
knew what the little boy meant about
the whipping.
1 wonder II poor Mrs Bad Man ever
does get her turn and give that wicked
husband OF hers a good beating once in
a whllc7 OR does he live in North Caro-
lina-and must she stand whatever he
does without one whimper OF protest?
North Carolina-don't YOU know about
II? ] didn't either till / went there
and then l found out ] saw 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
hereby enjoin all persons 10 refrain
from giving aid, comfort or employment
to said wife under extreme penalty OF
the law
laughed: what a mediaevaI gump, :"
thought, II wonder II he wears a tin
coat and a helmet
spoke to Il LAWYER about II. he didn't I
said said the he lawyer hes just a brute--and
he can do i,--in this state
do WHAT" I quavered in amazement-
Have YOU locked up or f,ned Tor Civ
ing his runaway wife cup OF tea or
! asking her TO stay all night OF giving
her floor 10 scrub. and paying her for
II. She belongs to him like the rest OF
his live stock II you find her running
away you must corral her and give
her back. just as YOU would old Jnnu-
airy. or Tlge-that's the law in North
Carolina.
can't leave him. no matter what lie does
to her She belongs Ia him Just rs his
dog does. and IL you berricnd her. you are
'enticins' her. and the law is strong
against 'enticiDc in this state
And when I went to the station there
were no crowds OF women there trying TO
get out of the state.
Every time ] sec an old maid from
| North Carolina after this ] am going TO
know that ! am looking at A sensible
woman
Every time 7 look al married woman
from North Carolina I shall feel as IL
we're looking at q beaten slaYe-and per-
| lNlps | shall be-who knows?
Gut there's Missouri-queer things the
! MIiNourI laws. ! knew woman down
there who had bad husband. who beat
the sake OF her children.
One day the bad husband ran away
and the wife went 10 work washing by
the day. TO keep a roof over the chill
dren's heads. and when she tried to make
the husband help her out with the rent.
the law said mo. the woman is keeping q
roof over those children's heads. she is
giving them a meal day, the man won't
have 10 help" and ne didn't for that
Is the law In Missouri.
Women have all the rights they need
what a silly cry that Is. Did any class
ever have its rights when any other class
s1had all the say about II? Is there a
man in this country who would be will
ing to let women make the laws govern
ing him. without bis having any voice at
all?
Marriage is the protection Of a
woman. and the duty OF a man" said g.
nice, kind anti -suffragist the other day.
I asked her II she had observed that
nine tenths Of the divorces were obtained
by women.
mot so crazy for that kind OF 'protec-
ton as they used to be, seems 10 me,
[ said 'I wonder why"
And the nice, kind anti said ] was not
logical and she hinted that I was not
womanly. and she said she was amazed