There is no limited divorce; but when the husband wilfully abandons his wife, she can maintain an action against him for permanent maintenance and support.

LABOUR LAWS:  No woman or minor may work or give any exhibition in a saloon.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women 21 years old or more who are mothers or guardians of a child of school age are eligible to the office of school trustee and may vote for such officers.  There are 12 women in the ministry, 1 dentist, 2 journalists, 4 lawyers, 4 doctors, 628 saloon keepers, 2 bankers, etc.

Arkansas

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 675,312; female 636,252.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  Dower exists, but not curtesy.  Wife may sell or transfer her separate real estate without husband’s consent.  Father is legal guardian of children, but cannot apprentice them or create testamentary guardianship for them without wife’s consent.  At husband’s death wife may be guardian of persons of children, but not of their property, unless derived from her.

DIVORCE:  Absolute or limited divorce for impotence, wilful desertion for a year, when husband or wife had a former wife or husband living at the time of the marriage sought to be set aside, conviction for felony or other infamous crime, habitual drunkenness for one year, intolerable indignities, and adultery subsequent to marriage.

LABOUR LAWS:  Labour contracts of married women, approved by their husbands, are legal and binding.  No woman may work in a mine.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage. 13 women are ministers, 6 journalists, 9 lawyers, 39 doctors, 3 professors, 3 saloon keepers, 9 commercial travellers, etc.

California

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 820,531; female 664,522.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  Wife may dispose of separate property without husband’s consent.  In torts of a personal nature she must sue jointly with her husband.  Husband is guardian of minor children; wife becomes so at his death.  Husband must provide for family.  If husband has no property or is disabled, wife must support him and the family out of her property or earnings.

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

There are no statutory provisions for limited divorce.  But when the wife has any cause for action as provided in the code, she may, without applying for a divorce, maintain an action against her husband for permanent support and maintenance of herself or of herself and children.

LABOUR LAWS:  Sex shall be no disqualification for entering any business, vocation, or profession.  Children under 16 may not be let out for acrobatic performances or any exhibition endangering life or morals.  Any one who sends a minor under the age of 18 to a saloon, gambling house, or brothel, is guilty of a misdemeanour.  One day of rest each week must be given all employees.