What Illinois Wives Can Do

The married -women of Illinois aoqnired by the law of 1874 the right to do alniost everything. They can Bue and be sued in their own names. They cao, blessed privilege - sue their own articular tyrants., When a Jmsband deerts his wife, the latter has the custody of her chiïdren. If the lmaband stays out of the State a year, and does nothing support the wife during that time, or f he is imprisoued in the penitentiary, he wife can, upon obtaining au order rom a court of record, manage his roperty abaolutely. The wife is no't at all liable for the msband's debts incurred bef ore mariage, and only in exceptioual circumtances for those incurred afterward. She can manage any business independntly, except in case of a partnership, vhich she cannot enter without her husand's consent. A wife's earnings cannot be touched by her husband oï his reditors. A married woman can achire, possess, and sell, real and person1 property as freely as a married man an. This list of privileges is expected o be largely increased the present year - so as to include euffrage and other inoidentftls.