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. 23--Forbidding children of 16 or under to work more than six hours a day in any mill, factory, or other occupation that may be unhealthful. 24--Making it a criminal offence to contribute to the delinquency of children--the parental responsibility act. 25--Making it a misdemeanour to fail to support aged or infirm parents. 26--Providing that no woman shall work more than eight hours a day at work requiring her to be on her feet. 27--Restricting the time for shooting doves. 28--Abolishing the binding out of girls committed to the Industrial School until the age of 21. 29--A pure food law in harmony with the national law. [418] In the _Boston Herald_ for June 4, 1910. [419] Quoted in the _New York Times_ of Jan. 9, 1910. [420] See, for example, Lyman Abbott in the _Outlook_ for Feb. 19, 1910. [421] _American Magazine_, July, 1909. [422] _History of European Morals_, vol. ii, pp. 379 and following. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1869. [423] Note, for example, that in Maryland a man can get a divorce if his wife has had sexual intercourse before marriage; _but a wife cannot get a divorce from her husband if he has been guilty of the same thing_. In Texas, adultery on the part of the wife entitles the husband to a divorce; but the wife can obtain divorce from her husband only if he has _abandoned_ her and _lived_ in adultery with another woman. [424] On Jan. 12, 1910, a bill was introduced in the House of Representatives to check the "White Slave Traffic" by providing a penalty of ten years' imprisonment and a fine of five thousand dollars for any one who engages in it. [425] In some it is even lower; _ten_ in Georgia and Mississippi for example. [426] In _Collier's Weekly_, Feb. 5, 1910. [427] Note what the officers of the Chicago Juvenile Protective Association, many of whom are women, accomplished in 1909-1910. These women are fighting the agencies which make for juvenile crime mostly and each officer has a specified "beat" to patrol. Last year their work amounted to the following: