Limited divorce for any of these causes or any other cause as the court may deem sufficient.

LABOUR LAWS:  Forbidden to let or employ any children under 16 in any acrobatic or mendicant or immoral occupations.  No Sunday labour.  No child under 14 shall work in factory, mill, or mine unless said child shall have no other means of support.  No child under 16 shall work more than ten hours per day.  Seats and suitable dressing-rooms must be provided for female employees.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  In the country districts any widow having a child of school age and any widow or spinster having a ward of school age may vote for school trustees and school taxes.  In Louisville, five third-class, and twenty or more fourth-class cities no woman has any vote.  Women may be notaries public. 39 women in ministry, 4 dentists, 21 journalists, 16 lawyers, 98 doctors, 5 professors, 35 saloon keepers, 3 bankers, 20 commercial travellers, 9 carpenters, etc.

Louisiana

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 694,733; female 686,892.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Husband controls wife’s earnings.  Wife cannot appear in court without her husband’s consent, and needs this consent in all matters connected with her separate estate.  She may make her will without the authority of her husband.  No woman can be a witness to a testament.  No married woman can be executor without husband’s consent.  The dowry is given to the husband, for him to enjoy as long as the marriage shall last.  Husband is legal guardian of children.

DIVORCE:  Absolute or limited for adultery, condemnation to an infamous punishment, habitual and intolerable intemperance, insupportable excess or outrages, public defamation on the part of one of the married persons toward the other, desertion, attempted murder, proof of guilt of husband or wife who has fled from justice when charged with an infamous offence.

LABOUR LAWS:  No female to be employed in any place where liquor is sold.  No Sunday labour.  No child under 15 to engage in any acrobatic or theatrical public exhibition.  Seats must be provided for female employees, who are also to have at least thirty minutes for lunch.  No girl under 14 may be employed in any mill or factory; and no woman shall be worked more than ten hours a day.  Seats, suitable dressing-rooms, and stairs must be provided.  An inspector, male or female, is appointed.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Tax-paying women can vote on all questions of taxation. 14 women in ministry, 4 dentists, 21 journalists, 8 lawyers, 25 doctors, 16 professors, 31 saloon keepers, 2 bankers, 18 commercial travellers, 9 carpenters, etc.

Maine

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 350,995; female 343,471.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and has full control of separate property.  Wife and husband are equal guardians of children.  If there is no will, the interest of the husband or wife in the real estate of the other is the same—­one third absolutely, if there is issue living, one half if there is no issue, the whole if there is neither issue nor kindred.