Tennessee

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  18.

POPULATION:  Male 1,021,224; female 999,392.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Husband controls wife’s earnings, and wife can do nothing with her separate estate without his consent.  Dower and curtesy prevail.  Husband has right to all rents and profits of wife’s estate.  No law requires husband to provide.  Husband is guardian of children.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for impotence, bigamy, adultery, desertion for two years, conviction for felony, attempted murder, pregnancy of woman at time of marriage without knowledge of husband, habitual drunkenness.

Limited for wife only for cruel treatment by husband or intolerable indignities, and desertion or refusal to provide.

Party guilty of adultery cannot marry person with whom adultery has been committed during life of former partner.

LABOUR LAWS:  No Sunday labour.  No child under 14 may be employed in factory, workshop, or mine.  Seats must be provided for female employees.  Hours for labour of women confined to 60 per week.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage. 30 women in ministry, 1 dentist, 19 journalists, 14 lawyers, 48 doctors, 9 professors, 6 saloon keepers, 4 bankers, 16 commercial travellers, 6 carpenters, etc.

Texas

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  15.

POPULATION:  Male 1,578,900; female 1,469,810.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Husband controls wife’s earnings and wife can do nothing with her separate property without his consent.  No dower or curtesy.  Husband and wife succeed equally to each other’s estate.  Husband is guardian of children and may be required to provide out of his wife’s estate.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for excesses or outrages; in favour of husband when wife is taken in adultery or has deserted him for three years; in favour of wife, if husband has deserted her for three years or has abandoned her and lives in adultery with another woman.  In favour of either husband or wife on conviction for felony.

No limited divorce.

LABOUR LAWS:  No Sunday labour.  No child under 12 may be employed in any establishment using machinery.  No females shall be employed in any place where liquor is sold except immediate members of owner’s family.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women can be notaries. 50 women in ministry, 12 dentists, 51 journalists, 17 lawyers, 100 doctors, 3 professors, 26 saloon keepers, 18 bankers, 29 commercial travellers, 12 carpenters, etc.

Utah

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  18.

POPULATION:  Male 141,687; female 135,062.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  No dower or curtesy.  Husband and wife succeed equally to each other’s estate at death.  Woman controls separate estate absolutely.  Husband is legal guardian of children.  There is no penalty for non-support.