Age of consent" raised from 10 to 16 years--1887.

Prohibiting sale of liquor on fair grounds of state--1888.

Prohibiting sale of cigarettes and tobacco to boys under 16 years of
age--1890.

Forbidding employment of women and girls as barmaids--1892.

Forbidding opening of the state's exhibit at World's Fair on Sunday--1892.

* * * * *

SUCCESSFUL PROTEST:

Preventing introduction of the bill (into the Legislature) legalizing
houses of prostitution--1892.

* * * * *

OFFICIAL ORGAN: "WOMAN'S TEMPERANCE WORK."

* * * * *

COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, A.D. 1893.

_This brief History answers in part that oft-repeated question, "What is
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union doing?_"

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