SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage. 24 women in ministry, 5 dentists, 7 journalists, 3 lawyers, 56 doctors, 2 saloon keepers, 5 commercial travellers, 6 carpenters, etc.

South Carolina

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  14.

POPULATION:  Male 664,895; female 675,421.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and separate estate absolutely.  Dower prevails, but not curtesy.  Husband is legal guardian of children, and is required to provide, but law as it stands offers many loopholes.

DIVORCE:  There are no divorce laws in South Carolina.

LABOUR LAWS:  Seats must be provided for female employees.  Sunday labour forbidden.  No child under 12 to work in factory, mill, or textile establishment, except in cases of extreme poverty duly attested; all such labour to be confined between 6 A.M. and 8 P.M.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women cannot be notaries. 17 women in ministry, 1 dentist, 6 journalists, 3 lawyers, 17 doctors, 13 professors, 3 saloon keepers, 2 commercial travellers, 13 carpenters, etc.

South Dakota

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 216,164; female 185,406.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and controls separate estate.  Joint real estate can be conveyed only by signature of both husband and wife, but husband can dispose of joint personal property without wife’s consent.  In order to control her separate property, wife must keep it recorded in the office of the county register.  No dower and no curtesy.  Survivor gets one half of estate, if there is one child or issue of child; otherwise one third; unless there are neither children nor kin, when survivor takes all.  On the death of an unmarried child, father inherits all its property.  If he is dead and there are no other children, mother succeeds; but if there are brothers and sisters, she inherits a child’s share.  Husband is guardian and must support; but if he is infirm, wife must do so.

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

No limited divorce.

Party guilty of adultery cannot marry any other, except the innocent party, until death of latter.

LABOUR LAWS:  Sunday labour forbidden.  No woman under 18 may labour more than ten hours a day.  No child under 15 may work in mine, hotel, laundry, factory, elevator, bowling alley, or any place where liquor is sold.  No child under 15 shall be employed at all while schools are in session.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women can vote for school trustees.  They may be notaries. 29 women in ministry, 3 dentists, 4 journalists, 12 lawyers, 24 doctors, 7 professors, 3 saloon keepers, 3 commercial travellers, etc.