[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.

9—­Establishing truant schools.

10—­Making better provision for the care of the feeble-minded.

11—­For tree preservation.

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.

15—­Establishing a juvenile court.

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.

18—­Providing for union high schools.

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.

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.