DIVORCE:  Absolute for impotence, adultery, desertion for one year, neglect to provide, habitual drunkenness, conviction of felony, cruel treatment causing bodily injury or mental distress, permanent insanity.

No limited divorce; but wife has an action for separate maintenance in case of desertion or neglect to provide on part of husband.

LABOUR LAWS:  No females may work in mines.  No Sunday labour.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Full suffrage; therefore all offices are open to women. 20 women in ministry, 5 dentists, 7 journalists, 1 lawyer, 34 doctors, 2 saloon keepers, 1 banker, 3 commercial travellers, 1 carpenter, etc.

Vermont

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Males 175,138; females 168,503.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and controls separate property.  No dower or curtesy.  Husband and wife have same powers of mutual inheritance, except that widower does not take his wife’s personal property.  Husband is guardian of children and must support.

DIVORCE:  Absolute or limited for adultery, sentence to hard labour, intolerable severity, desertion for three years, neglect to provide, absence for seven years without being heard from.

LABOUR LAWS:  No child under 16 to be employed after 8 P.M.  No child under 12 may work in mill, factory, railroad, quarry, or messenger service.  No female shall be employed in barrooms.  No Sunday labour.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women have school suffrage.  They may be notaries. 17 women in ministry, 3 dentists, 15 journalists, 21 doctors, 1 professor, 2 saloon keepers, 11 commercial travellers, 3 carpenters, etc.

Virginia

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  14.

POPULATION:  Male 925,897; female 928,287.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and separate property absolutely.  Dower and curtesy prevail.  Husband is guardian of children and must support.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for adultery, impotence, sentence to penitentiary, conviction of an infamous offence prior to marriage without knowledge of other party, desertion for three years, pregnancy of wife at time of marriage or previous prostitution without knowledge of husband.

Limited for cruelty, reasonable apprehension of bodily hurt, desertion.

LABOUR LAWS:  Seats must be provided for female employees.  Hours of female labour confined to ten.  No child under 12 may work in factory or mine; no child under 14 shall work between 6 P.M. and 7 A.M.  No child under 14 shall be hired for any mendicant, acrobatic, dangerous, or immoral occupation.  No Sunday labour.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL, AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage. 37 women in ministry, 1 dentist, 12 journalists, 7 lawyers, 32 doctors, 20 professors, 19 saloon keepers, 13 commercial travellers, 9 carpenters, etc.