SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  May be elected school trustees.  May be notaries public.  There are 201 women in the ministry, 52 dentists, 116 journalists, 60 lawyers, 522 doctors, 8 professors, 129 saloon keepers, 9 bankers, 23 commercial travellers, etc.

Colorado

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  18.

POPULATION:  Male 295,332; female 244,368.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  No assignment of wages by a married man is valid without the consent of his wife.  Neither dower nor curtesy obtains.  Husband and wife have same rights in making wills.  Wife can sue and be sued as if unmarried.  She is joint guardian of children with husband and has equal powers.  Husband must support family.

DIVORCE:  Absolute divorce for impotence, when husband or wife had a wife or husband living at time of marriage, adultery subsequent to marriage, wilful desertion for one year, cruelty (including the infliction of mental suffering as well as physical violence), neglect to provide for one year, habitual drunkenness for one year, conviction for felony.

There is no limited divorce.

LABOUR LAWS:  Eight hours the usual day’s work.  Children under 12 may not work in mines; none under 14 may exhibit in saloons, variety theatres, or any place endangering morals.  No female help may be sent to any place of bad repute.  Children under 14 may not be employed in mills or factories.  No woman may work underground in a mine.  All employers of women must provide seats.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Full suffrage.  Women are eligible to all offices; 10 have served in the Legislature.  There are 39 women in the ministry, 23 dentists, 28 journalists, 17 lawyers, 172 doctors, 4 professors, 17 saloon keepers, 12 bankers, 8 commercial travellers, etc.

Connecticut

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 454,294; female 454,126.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  No dower or curtesy.  Survivor gets one third of property.  Wife controls own property.  Wife and husband joint guardians of children with equal powers.  Husband must support family.

DIVORCE:  Absolute divorce for adultery, fraudulent contract, wilful desertion for three years with total neglect of duty, seven years’ absence when absent party is not heard from during that period, habitual intemperance, intolerable cruelty, sentence to imprisonment for life, any infamous crime involving a violation of conjugal duty and punishable by imprisonment.

There is no limited divorce.

LABOUR LAWS:  No child under 12 may give exhibition endangering limbs or morals.  Employers of females may not send them to any place of bad repute.  Eight hours is a day’s work.  Women employees must have seats to rest.  No woman shall be forced to labour more than ten hours a day.