The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-02-27
WOMAN'S CLUB WORK
MRS. FORD H. ROGERS
Editor for February
Quoted from Woman Under the Law
BY Alvah L. Stinson

D4 AVIAN 0IAliSOu
by custom, not by law, the wife
is called by the husbands name. But
whether marriage shall work any
change of name at all, is a mere
question of choice, and either may join
the others name, or they may join
their names together.
"In the eye of the law husband and
wife are one person, therefore one
cannot be found guilty of stealing
from the other.
"a husband is generally liable for
his wife's evil deeds, but wife IS
never liable for her husbands crimes.
"In Florida wife cannot make a
contract herself or by her husband as
agent on which she will be personally
liable, but she is personally liable for
her civil crimes.
"a wife must execute some instru-
nent in writing to create charge
upon her seperate property except for
j improvements of real estate, and those
are the only bills she can be obliged
tc pay.
/ "If a man deserts his wife or is
cruel to her the court will take hel
property out of his hands.
j. "The party who has the intent tx
desert is the deserter, no matter which
one leaves the matrimonial home"
4 "SOme Laws of Interest to FlOrid,
Women"
The article from which the follow
ing is quoted was compiled by Mrs
Wright, and revised by Mrs. Frank E
jennings:
Property of married women is no
i subject to the debts of the husband
> "a wife's separate property can
: not be levied upon for family necessi
\ ties ordered by her.
"a husband cannot cut off his wifi
by will, but wife may cut off
; husband by will.
"The husband cannot dispose of tn
!, homestead by will if there be an
= children, no matter how old they ar
GA wife's earnings are her own.
Neither wife nor husband can COZ
= vey separate real property withol
the signature of both.
"a woman may not frequent a ba
10 room except those in hotels havir
Is one hundred or more rooms.
: eff the husband fails to suppo
the wife he can be punished crimina
Is ly. The wife though very rich is u
re der no legal obligation to suppo
m the husband"
Three Needs of Florida
,s Compulsory education.
a. A state industrial school for CIR
&c A state board of charities.
e, How to Help Ocala
S Do you want to help your city?
Learn the names of the stree
Then when asked where Mr.. Smi
Y lives you will not answer, "You knc
ed where Mr.. Jones lives? Well it
ey the opposite house." making Ocs
ce like a country hamlet instead of t
IS. dear little city it is. If the teache
would have their classes make ma
Of the principal streets it would he
n. both children and parents.
s. The streets have been renamed !
'e- Gently, and remembered in a way
m, help the good work along, except
e. one case where the directory Of 49,
st. 1915 gives the name of a street
Wenona, with little short block
of It's northern end as Herbert, VIII
a three blocks east is a street with I
E. a house on it with the sign Vino
- on it. Perhaps the man who |
up this sign put it on the wro
er, street, as Wenona street has been
cir called by its many inhabitants !
some years.
The streets extending east and W
III in the best residential part of the c
ell are beginning on the north; Frank
Wyomina, Adams, Washington, o
lawaha, Broadway, Fort King, Secc
tch and Third, and so on. Twelfth, tt
las teenth and fourteenth are called
.le- a part of their length, Palm, Lau