In both parliaments the women presented numerous measures, some of general concern, others bearing on woman's rights.[63] Some of the measures provided for: the improvement of the legal status of illicit children, parental authority, the protection of maternity, the abolition of the husband's guardianship over the wife, the better protection of children, the protection of the woman on the street, the abolition of the regulation of prostitution, and the raising of the age of consent. This list of measures indicates that the Finnish laws regulating marriage are still antiquated, and that the political emancipation of woman did not immediately effect her release from legal bondage. One of the Finnish woman's advocates said, "Our short experience has taught us that we may still have a hard fight for equal rights." Not only the antiquated marriage laws are inconsistent with the national political rights of women; in the municipal election laws, too, woman is treated unjustly. Married women do not exercise the right of suffrage, and widows and unmarried women possess the passive suffrage only in the election of poor-law administrators and school boards. Two woman's suffrage organizations--_Unionen_ and _Finsk Kvinnoforening_--have existed since 1906; they have no party affiliations. Two new woman's suffrage societies--_Swenska Kinnoforbundet_ and _Naitlütto_ (Young-Finnish)--are party organizations. The bill concerning the abolition of the official regulation of prostitution has meanwhile become law, replacing the former unsatisfactory, and for Finland, exceptional law. The law corresponding to the English Vagrancy Act (supplement to paragraph 45 of the Finnish Civil Code) provides that "whoever accosts a woman in public places for immoral purposes shall pay a fine of $50." On October 31, 1907, the manufacture, importation, sale, or storing of alcoholic liquors in any form whatever was prohibited by law. In recent years the Finnish woman temperance lecturer, Trigg Helenius, has carried on a successful international propaganda. External and internal difficulties have to the present made impossible the formation of Finnish women's clubs and a federation of the women voters. NORWAY Total population: 2,240,860. Women: 1,155,169. Men: 1,085,691. League of Norwegian Women's Clubs. Woman's Suffrage Association.