DIVORCE:  Absolute for adultery, impotence, extreme cruelty, desertion for three years, gross and confirmed habits of Intoxication whether from liquors or drugs, cruel and abusive treatment, wilful neglect to provide.

No limited divorce.

LABOUR LAWS:  Ten hours a day the legal limit for female employees.  No child under 14 may work in a factory.  No Sunday labour.  No child under 16 may be employed in any acrobatic, mendicant, immoral, or dangerous occupation.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women can be justices of the peace, town clerks, and registers of probate.  They cannot be notaries public. 39 women in ministry, 4 dentists, 33 journalists, 4 lawyers, 67 doctors, 1 professor, 3 bankers, 5 carpenters, etc.

Maryland

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 589,275; female 598,769.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  No assignment of wages to be made without consent of both husband and wife.  Wife controls separate property absolutely.  Inheritance of property is the same for widow and widower.  Husband is legal guardian of children and must support family.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for impotence, any cause which by the laws of the State renders a marriage null and void ab initio, adultery, desertion for three years, illicit sexual intercourse of the woman before marriage unknown to husband (but the wife cannot obtain a divorce from her husband if he has been guilty of such an offence).  Limited divorce for cruelty, excessively vicious conduct, or desertion.  In all cases where an absolute divorce is granted for adultery or abandonment, the court may decree that the guilty party shall not contract marriage with any other person during the lifetime of the other party.  Annulment is given for bigamy or marriage within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and affinity.

LABOUR LAWS:  Seats must be provided for female employees.  No Sunday labour.  No child under 14 may be employed in any mendicant or acrobatic occupation.  No child under 8 may be employed in peddling.  Women may not be waitresses in any place where liquor is sold.  Children under 12 may not be employed in any business except in the counties, from June 1 to Oct. 15, Ten hours a legal day’s work.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women serve as notaries public. 35 women in ministry, 6 dentists, 23 journalists, 6 lawyers, 87 doctors, 4 professors, 2 bankers, 13 commercial travellers, 10 carpenters, etc.

Massachusetts

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 1,367,474; female 1,437,872.