In a little while we shall have them calling the practice of wife-beating the Problem of Pokers; the habit of housebreaking will be called the Problem of the Skeleton-Key Trade; and for all I know they may try to prevent forgery by shutting up all the stationers' shops by Act of Parliament.

If the better class of people hadn't the money that enables them to put buffers round themselves, wife-beating wouldn't be confined to the slums.

Doubtless what Mr. Weller, Sr., describes as the "amiable weakness" of wife-beating was not necessarily confined to the "lower rank."

Wife-beating is still a flagrantly common offence in England.

Some States pass laws punishing wife-beating by either imprisonment or a whipping.

Married women, regulation of labor of; original laws; have same property rights as men; may be protected by the State; as by hours of labor law; have control of separate property; laws permitting them to act as sole traders; wife-beating made criminal; privileges of.