SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women cannot be notaries public. 25 women in ministry, 6 journalists, 22 doctors, 2 professors, 2 saloon keepers, 3 bankers, 4 commercial travellers, 6 carpenters, etc.

North Dakota

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  18.

POPULATION:  Male 177,493; female 141,653.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and separate property absolutely.  Dower and curtesy do not prevail; if husband or wife dies intestate, survivor takes one half of the estate, if there is only one child living or the lawful issue of one child; if there are more, survivor gets one third.  If husband is unable to support family, wife must maintain him and the children.  Husband is guardian of children.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for adultery, extreme cruelty, wilful desertion for one year, wilful neglect for one year, habitual intemperance for one year, conviction of felony.

No limited divorce.

LABOUR LAWS:  Children under 12 may not work in mines, factories, or workshops.  Children must go to school between 8 and 14, unless they have already been taught adequately and poverty compels them to work.  No Sunday labour.  No woman under 18 shall labour more then ten hours per day.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women have school suffrage and are eligible to all school offices.  They may be notaries public. 15 women in ministry, 5 dentists, 2 journalists, 6 lawyers, 15 doctors, 1 professor, 1 commercial traveller, 4 carpenters, etc.

Ohio

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 2,102,655; female 2,054,890.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Husband controls wife’s earnings, but wife controls separate property.  Either husband or wife on the death of the other is entitled to one third of the real estate for life.  Husband is legal guardian of children, and must provide; but if he is unable, wife must assist.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for bigamy, desertion for three years, adultery, impotence, extreme cruelty, fraudulent contract, any gross neglect of duty, habitual drunkenness for three years, imprisonment in penitentiary, procurement of divorce in another State.  No limited divorce; but wife has an action for alimony without divorce for adultery, any gross neglect of duty, desertion, separation on account of ill treatment by husband, habitual drunkenness, sentence and imprisonment in penitentiary.

LABOUR LAWS:  No child under 14 may work in a mine.  Children must go to school between 8 and 14.  Seats and suitable toilet rooms must be provided for female employees.  No child under 14 may be employed in any establishment or take part in any acrobatic, mendicant, dangerous, or immoral vocation.  Hours for girls under 18 confined between 6 A.M. and 7 P.M., nor may they work more than ten hours per day.  No Sunday labour.  No labour agency shall send any female to an immoral resort.