Indian Territory

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  16.

POPULATION:  Male 208,952; female 183,108.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Husband controls wife’s earnings.  Dower is in force and curtesy.  Woman controls separate estate absolutely in practice; for though at common law any money or property given her husband for investment becomes his, by statute it does not.  Husband and wife are equal guardians of children.

DIVORCE:  Absolute or limited for impotence, wilful desertion for one year, bigamy, conviction for felony or other infamous crime, habitual drunkenness for one year, cruel treatment endangering life, intolerable indignities, adultery, incurable insanity subsequent to marriage.

LABOUR LAWS:  No Sunday labour.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION; INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  No suffrage. 6 women in ministry, 1 dentist, 4 journalists, 13 doctors, 4 professors, 1 banker, etc.

Iowa

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  15.

POPULATION:  Male 1,156,849; female 1,075,004.

HUSBAND AND WIFE:  Wife controls own earnings.  Any assignment of wages must have written consent of both husband and wife.  No dower or curtesy; surviving husband or wife is entitled to one third in fee simple of both real and personal estate of other at his or her death.  Wife controls own property, can sue, etc., as if single.  Husband and wife are equal guardians of children.  Support and education of family is chargeable equally on husband’s and wife’s property.

DIVORCE:  Absolute for adultery, wilful desertion for two years, conviction of felony after marriage, habitual drunkenness, inhuman treatment endangering life, pregnancy of wife at time of marriage by another man, unless the husband have an illegitimate child living unknown to wife.

No limited divorce.

Annulment for prohibited degrees, impotence, bigamy, insanity or idiocy at time of marriage.

LABOUR LAWS:  No female may be employed in any place where intoxicating liquors are sold; Seats must be provided for female employees.  Children under 16 not to assist in operating dangerous machinery.  No Sunday labour.  No person under 14 may work in a factory, mine, laundry, slaughter-house, store where more than eight persons are employed; no child under 16 shall be employed in any vocation endangering life or morals, nor shall work more than ten hours a day.

SUFFRAGE, POLITICAL CONDITION, INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL STATUS:  Women have bond suffrage and can vote on increase of taxes.  They may serve as school trustees and superintendents. 117 women in ministry, 52 dentists, 74 journalists, 53 lawyers, 260 doctors, 27 professors, 8 saloon keepers, 11 bankers, 34 commercial travellers, 7 carpenters, etc.

Kansas

AGE OF LEGAL CONSENT:  18.

POPULATION:  Male 768,716; female 701,779.