SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women have school suffrage and may be elected school trustees.  There are 45 women in the ministry, 6 dentists, 122 doctors, 1 professor, 28 saloon keepers, 4 bankers, 13 commercial travellers, 14 carpenters, etc.

Delaware

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  18.

POPULATION:  Male 94,158; female 90,577.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  If there is a child or lawful issue of a child living, widow has a life interest in one third of the real estate and one third absolutely of the personal property.  If there is no child nor the descendant of a child living, widow has a life interest in one half of the real estate and one half absolutely of the personal estate.  If there are neither descendants nor kin of husband, she gets the entire real estate for her life, and all the personal estate absolutely.  Father is legal guardian of children and he alone may appoint a guardian at his death.  Husband must support family.

DIVORCE:  Absolute divorce for adultery, desertion for three years, habitual drunkenness, impotence, extreme cruelty, conviction for felony, procurement of marriage by fraud for want of age, wilful neglect to provide for three years.

Limited divorce may be decreed, in the discretion of the court, for the last two causes mentioned.

LABOUR LAWS:  All female employees must be provided with seats.  Sunday labour forbidden.  No minor under 15 may be let out for any gymnastic or other exhibition endangering body or morals.  Separate lunch, wash-rooms, etc., for all women employees; the rooms must be kept reasonably heated.  Using indecent or profane language towards a female employee is a misdemeanour.  The governor must appoint a female factory inspector who shall see that these laws are enforced.  Children under 14 may not work in mills and factories; and no child under 16 shall be forced to labour more than nine hours daily.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women in Milford, Townsend, Wyoming, and Newark who pay a property tax may vote for Town Commissioners.  All such women in the State may vote for school trustees.  There are 4 women in the ministry, 3 dentists, 1 journalist, 1 lawyer, 7 doctors, 8 saloon keepers, 1 commercial traveller, 2 carpenters, etc.

District of Columbia

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT; 16.

POPULATION:  Male 132,004; female 146,714.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and property, may be sued and sue, carry on business, etc., as if unmarried.  Husband and wife are equal guardians of children.  Husband must furnish reasonable support if he have property.  Both dower and curtesy obtain.

DIVORCE:  Absolute divorce for bigamy, insanity at time of marriage, impotence, adultery habitual drunkenness for three years, cruel treatment endangering life or health.