Limited divorce for drunkenness, cruelty, and desertion.

In case of absolute divorce, only the innocent party may remarry; but the divorced parties may marry each other again.

LABOUR LAWS:  No child under 14 may be let out for any public exhibition endangering body or morals.  Seats must be provided for women employees.  Employment agencies must not send applicants to places of bad repute.  Children under 14 may not be employed in any factory, hotel, etc.; but judge of juvenile court may give dispensation to child between 12 and 14.  No girl under 16 may be bootblack or sell papers or any other wares publicly.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women may be notaries public and members of Board of Education. 17 women in the ministry, 7 dentists, 38 journalists, 23 lawyers, 56 doctors, 18 saloon keepers, 1 banker, 7 commercial travellers, 2 carpenters, etc.

Florida

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16 (but 10 practically, as penalty above 10 is insignificant).

POPULATION:  Male 275,246; female 253,296.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and owns separate estate; but cannot transfer her real or personal property without husband’s consent.  Dower prevails, but not curtesy.  Wife may make a will as if unmarried.  Husband is legal guardian of children.  Husband must support family.

DIVORCE:  Absolute divorce for impotence, where the parties are within the degrees prohibited by the law, adultery, bigamy, extreme cruelty, habitual indulgence in violent and ungovernable temper, habitual intemperance, desertion for one year, if husband or wife has obtained a divorce elsewhere and if the applicant has been a citizen of Florida for two years.

There is no limited divorce.  But the wife may claim alimony, without applying for a divorce, for any of these causes except bigamy.

LABOUR LAWS:  Ten hours legal day’s work.  Employers of women must provide seats.  No child under 14 may be let out for any public exhibition endangering body or morals.  Sunday labour forbidden.  No child under 12 may be employed in any factory, or any place where intoxicating liquor is sold; and no child under 12 may labour more than nine hours a day.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage.  Women may be notaries public. 19 women in the ministry, 1 dentist, 9 journalists, 4 lawyers, 21 doctors, 1 banker, 3 commercial travellers, 6 carpenters, etc.

Georgia

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  10.

POPULATION:  Male 1,103,201; female 1,113,130.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings and own property.  Dower prevails, but not curtesy.  Husband is legal guardian of children and at his death may appoint a guardian to the exclusion of his wife.  Husband must support family.

DIVORCE:  Absolute divorce for intermarriage within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and affinity, mental incapacity at time of marriage, impotence at time of marriage, force, menace, duress, or fraud in obtaining marriage, pregnancy of wife at time of marriage unknown to husband, adultery, wilful desertion for three years, conviction for an offence involving imprisonment for two years or longer.