HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  Husband and wife are equal guardians of children.  Wife controls her separate property, can sue, etc., as if unmarried.  Neither husband nor wife can convey or encumber real estate without consent of other; nor dispose by will of more than one half of the separate property without other’s consent.  If there are no children, the surviving husband or wife takes all the property, real and personal; if there are children, one half.  Husband must support family.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for bigamy, desertion for one year, adultery, impotency, when wife at time of marriage was pregnant by another than her husband, extreme cruelty, fraudulent contract, habitual drunkenness, gross neglect of duty, conviction and imprisonment for felony subsequent to marriage.

No limited divorce; but wife may obtain alimony without divorce for any causes above mentioned.

LABOUR LAWS:  People employing children under 14 in acrobatic or mendicant occupations are guilty of a misdemeanour.  No Sunday labour.  Seats must be provided for female employees.  No child under 14 may work in coal mine, nor in any factory or packing house.  No child under 16 may work at any occupation endangering body or morals.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women have municipal, school, and bond suffrage. 63 women in ministry, 21 dentists, 39 journalists, 43 lawyers, 190 doctors, 21 professors, 9 saloon keepers, 7 bankers, 20 commercial travellers, 19 carpenters, etc.

Kentucky

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  12.

POPULATION:  Male 1,090,227; female 1,056,947.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Husband controls wife’s earnings.  Curtesy and dower are equalised.  After the death of either husband or wife, the survivor is given a life interest in one third of the realty of the deceased and an absolute estate in one half of the personalty.  Wife controls her personal property, but cannot dispose of real estate without husband’s consent; the husband can convey real estate without his wife’s signature, but it is subject to her dower.  Husband is legal guardian of children.  He must furnish support according to his condition, but if he has only his wages there is no law to punish him for non-support.

DIVORCE:  Absolute to both husband and wife for impotence or inability to copulate and for living apart for five consecutive years without any cohabitation.  Also to the party not in fault for desertion for one year, adultery, condemnation for felony, concealment of any loathsome disease at time of marriage or contracting it afterwards, force, duress, or fraud in obtaining marriage, uniting with any creed or religious society requiring a renunciation of the marriage covenant or forbidding husband and wife to cohabit.  To the wife, when not in like fault, for confirmed drunkenness of husband leading to neglect to provide, habitual behaviour by husband for six months indicating aversion to wife and causing her unhappiness, physical injury or attempt at it.  To the husband for wife’s pregnancy at time of marriage unknown to him, adultery of wife, or such conduct as proves her to be unchaste without proof of adultery, and habitual drunkenness of wife.