LABOUR LAWS:  No female may be employed in any place where liquor is sold.  Seats must be provided for female employees.  Ten hours a legal day’s work.  No Sunday labour.  No child under 16 may take part in any acrobatic or mendicant or dangerous or immoral occupation, nor shall any minor be given obscene literature to sell.  No female under 21 may be employed in any occupation endangering life, health, or morals.  At least forty-five minutes must be allowed for lunch.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  All women who pay taxes may vote upon questions of local taxation and the granting of franchises.  Parents and guardians have also school suffrage.  Women serve as notaries public. 105 women in ministry, 17 dentists, 81 journalists, 27 lawyers, 270 doctors, 26 professors, 23 saloon keepers, 13 bankers, 53 commercial travellers, 32 carpenters, etc.

Minnesota

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 932,490; female 818,904.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings, but cannot convey or encumber her separate real estate without husband’s consent.  No dower or curtesy.  If either husband or wife die intestate, the survivor, if there is issue living, is entitled to the homestead for life and one third of the rest of the estate in fee simple.  If there are no descendants, the entire estate goes absolutely to the survivor.  Husband is guardian of children and must support family.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for adultery, impotency, cruel and inhuman treatment, sentence to imprisonment after marriage, wilful desertion for one year, habitual drunkenness for one year.

Limited divorce—­to wife only—­for cruel and inhuman treatment, on part of husband, or such conduct as may make it unsafe and improper for her to cohabit with him, desertion and neglect to provide.

LABOUR LAWS:  Children between 8 and 18 must be sent to school during whole period schools are in session, except in cases of unusual poverty.  Ten hours a legal day’s work.  Seats must be provided for female employees.  No Sunday labour.  No child under 18 may engage in any occupation between 6 P.M. and 7 A.M.; nor in any mendicant, acrobatic, immoral, or dangerous business.  No child under 14 may work in factory or mine.  A female factory inspector must be appointed.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women have school suffrage and may vote for library trustees. 80 women in ministry, 18 dentists, 75 journalists, 21 lawyers, 199 doctors, 16 professors, 17 saloon keepers, 10 bankers, 46 commercial travellers, 8 carpenters, etc.

Mississippi

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  10.

POPULATION:  Male 781,451; female 769,819.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Husband controls wife’s earnings.  He manages her separate property, but must give an account of it annually.  No dower or curtesy.  If husband or wife dies intestate, the entire estate goes to the survivor; if there is issue, surviving husband or wife has a child’s share of the estate.  Each has equal rights in making a will.  Father is legal guardian of children, but cannot deprive mother of custody of their persons.  Husband must support.