rongs, she has not become misanthropic nor
despondent. Knowing that progress is the law of life, she has
full faith that the moral world, though moving slowly, is still
moving in the right direction.

HELEN Y. AUSTIN,

Corresponding Secretary of the State Suffrage Association for
many years, a position for which she was eminently fitted, being
gifted as a writer. Having had a liberal education, and great
enthusiasm in our cause, her labors have been valuable and
effective. She is a correspondent for several journals and
periodicals, is very active in "The State Horticultural Society,"
and takes a deep interest in all the progressive movements of the
day.

LOUISE V. BOYD.

Mrs. Boyd is a lady of fine poetical genius and superior literary
attainments. She has been an earnest advocate of woman suffrage
for many years, and is herself a living argument of woman's
ability to use the rights she asks.

In 1871 she read a very able essay on the "Women of the Bible,"
before the State Association of the Christian Church. It was the
first time a woman's voice had been heard in that religious body.
The success of her effort on that occasion opened the way for
other women. Mrs. Boyd and her husband (Dr. S. S. Boyd, who is
also a zealous friend of our cause), have both been officers of
the State W. S. Association for many years, taking an active part
in all our Conventions.

REV. MARY T. CLARK.

Mrs. Clark has been an acceptable lecturer and preacher for many
years in different parts of the State. She was early a recognized
minister among the Congregational Quakers. More recently she has
been ordained in the Universalist Church, and enjoys equal rights
and honors with the clergymen of that denomination. She is a
woman of education and culture, and of English parentage.

EMMA B. SWANK.

Mrs. Swank is one of the most pleasing speakers of Indiana. She
is a graduate of Antioch, and while yet in college she gained
quite a reputation by her lecturing on Astronomy. She spent
several years lecturing to classes of women on Physiology,
Anatomy, and Hygiene. Of late, she has devoted herself to Woman
Suffrage and Temperance. She served as p