Absolute or limited divorce for cruelty or habitual intoxication.  Limited divorce for any ground held sufficient in English courts prior to May 4, 1784.

LABOUR LAWS:  No boss or other superior in any factory shall inflict corporal punishment on minor labourers.  Seats must be provided for female employees.  Sunday labour forbidden.  No minors may be employed in barrooms.  To let out children for gymnastic exhibition or any indecent exhibition is a misdemeanour.  Children under 12 may not work in factories.  No child under 14 may work between 7 P.M. and 6 A.M.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage. 33 women in the ministry, 2 dentists, 37 journalists, 6 lawyers, 43 doctors, 4 professors, 2 saloon keepers, 4 bankers, 9 commercial travellers, 10 carpenters, etc.

Idaho

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  18.

POPULATION:  Male 93,367; female 68,405.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Husband controls wife’s earnings.  Wife can secure control of own property only by going into court and showing that her husband is mismanaging it.  Husband is legal guardian of the children.

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

There is no limited divorce.

LABOUR LAWS:  No Sunday labour.  Children under 14 may not work in mine, factory, hotel, or be messenger; no child under 16 shall work more than nine hours per day; nor be let out for any exhibition or vocation which endangers health or morals; nor ever be sent to any immoral resort or serve or handle intoxicating liquors.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Full suffrage.  Women are eligible to all offices. 7 women are in the ministry, 4 journalists, 2 lawyers, 15 doctors, 1 saloon keeper, 1 commercial traveller, 1 carpenter, etc.

Illinois

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 2,472,782; female 2,348,768.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  Dower prevails.  Wife has full disposal of property, can sue, etc., as if unmarried.  Wife and husband are equal guardians of children.  Wife is entitled to support suited to her condition in life; husband is entitled to same support out of her individual property.  They are jointly liable for family expenses.

DIVORCE:  Absolute divorce for impotence, bigamy, adultery, wilful desertion for two years, habitual drunkenness for two years, attempt to murder, extreme and repeated cruelty, conviction for felony or other infamous crime.

No limited divorce; but married women living separate through no fault of their own have an action in equity for reasonable maintenance, if they so desire.