th the purpose of
demonstrating that in virtue of the principle and practice of the
Government of the United States in securing the ballot to men,
the right to vote equally belonged to women. The speaker
continued at length in advocacy of the ballot for woman as a
necessity for securing her rights and remedying her wrongs.

The PRESIDENT, with some prefatory remarks, introduced Miss Rice,
of Antioch College. Miss Rice announced as the theme of her
address, "Woman's Work," and said that the work proper for woman
is whatever she has the ability and opportunity to do. Miss Rice
embraced in the discussion of her topic, considerations as to the
duty of parents in rearing and teaching their children, demanding
that the same principle under which boys were reared should be
applied to girls, and the duty of society, which must recognize
the necessity of women being instructed and taught in all that
man has access to. She deprecated as one of the worst evils of
our civilization that men and women were being all the time more
widely separated. They must be brought nearer together.

Mrs. M. M. COLE said: That we are still so far from
enfranchisement is mainly the fault of women themselves. Home
talks, not Mrs. Caudle's fault-finding lectures, will do more
toward convincing men of the righteousness of their demand, than
all the public harangues to which they can listen. Comparatively
speaking, there are few men who do not listen and heed the
counsels of a good wife, few who will not yield a willing or
reluctant assent to her requests. For every exception, there may
be found a wife who has never given evidence of candid,
far-reaching thought; and when a man is in possession of such a
one, he is not to be censured for wishing to keep the reins in
his own hand.

When all women ask for the ballot, they shall have it, say many
politicians. In all probability, the wives of these men have
never asked it--indeed, they may have refused outright to use
it, if granted. And so, blind to the interests of all, deaf to
the entreaties of many, they refuse the request, making, in fact,
their wives the arbiter of all women. That is not statesmanship,
but partisanship, and a partisan is not one likely to comprehend
a question in its broadest meaning. Husbands and wi