[415] See an excellent article on "The American Woman" by Miss Ida M. Tarbell, in the _American Magazine_ for April, 1910.
[416] In 1893. "Be it resolved by the Second Legislature of the State of Wyoming:
"That the possession and exercise of suffrage by the women of Wyoming for the past quarter of a century has wrought no harm and has done great good in many ways; that it has largely aided in banishing crime, pauperism, and vice from this State, and that without any violent and oppressive legislation," etc.
[417] Women in Colorado have been of greatest service in establishing the following laws:
1--Establishing a State Home for dependent children, three of the five members of the board to be women.
2--Requiring that at least three of the six members of the county visitors shall be women.
3--Making mothers joint guardians of their children with the fathers.
4--Raising the age of protection for girls to 18 years.
5--Establishing a State Industrial School for girls. There had long been one for boys, but the women could not get one for girls until they had the vote.
6--Removing the emblems from the Australian ballots. This is a little, indirect step toward educational qualifications for voting.
7--Establishing the indeterminate sentence for prisoners.
8--Requiring one physician on the board of the Insane Asylum to be a woman.
10--Making better provision for the care of the feeble-minded.
12--For the inspection of private eleemosynary institutions by the State Board of Charities.
13--Various steps toward prevention of cruelty to animals.
14--Providing that foreign life and accident insurance companies, when sued, must pay the costs.
16--Making education compulsory for all children between the ages of 8 and 16, except those who are ill or those who are 14 and have completed the eighth grade, or those whose parents need their help and support.
17--Making the mother and father joint heirs of a deceased child.
19--Establishing a State travelling library commission.
20--Providing that any person employing a child under 14 in any mine, mill, or factory be punished by imprisonment in addition to a fine.
21--Requiring the joint signature of the husband and wife to a mortgage of a homestead.
22--Forbidding the insuring of the lives of children under 10.