DIVORCE:  Absolute for marriage within prohibited degrees, natural impotence, adultery, sentence to the penitentiary, wilful desertion for two years, habitual drunkenness or excessive use of drugs, habitually cruel treatment, pregnancy of wife at time of marriage unknown to husband, bigamy, insanity, or idiocy when party applying did not know of it.

No limited divorce.  The court may decree that the guilty party must not marry again.

LABOUR LAWS:  No Sunday labour.  There are no other laws.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  A woman as a free-holder or lease-holder may vote at a county election to decide as to the adoption or non-adoption of a law permitting stock to run at large.  If a widow and the head of a family, she may vote on leasing certain portions of land in the township which are set apart for school purposes.  Widows in country districts may also vote for school trustees.  Women cannot be notaries public. 13 women in ministry, 2 dentists, 19 journalists, 4 lawyers, 16 doctors, 3 professors, 1 saloon keeper, 3 bankers, 9 commercial travellers, 13 carpenters, etc.

Missouri

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  18.

POPULATION:  Male 1,595,710; female 1,510,955.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  Her separate property is liable for debts contracted by the husband for necessaries for the family.  Wife can sue and be sued, make contracts, etc., in her own name.  She may hold real property under three different tenures:  an equitable separate estate created by certain technical words in the conveyance, and this she can dispose of without husband’s consent; a legal separate estate, which she cannot convey without his joinder; and a common law estate in fee, of which the husband is entitled to the rents and profits.  Dower and curtesy prevail.  Husband is guardian of children and must support.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for impotence, bigamy, adultery, desertion for one year, conviction for felony or infamous crime, habitual drunkenness for one year, cruel treatment endangering life or intolerable indignities, vagrancy of husband, pregnancy of wife at time of marriage unknown to husband.

No limited divorce.

LABOUR LAWS:  Seats must be provided for female employees.  No woman may be employed in any place where liquor is served except wife, daughter, mother, or sister of owner.  No child under 14 to engage in any acrobatic, mendicant, dangerous, or immoral occupation.  No Sunday labour.  No female may work underground in a mine.  Children between 8 and 14 must go to school.  No child under 14 may work in any theatre, concert hall, factory; but this applies only to cities with 10,000 or more inhabitants, No female may labour more than 54 hours a week.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women may be notaries public. 138 women in ministry, 32 dentists, 87 journalists, 61 lawyers, 303 doctors, 17 professors, 44 saloon keepers, 30 bankers, 37 commercial travellers, 15 carpenters, etc.