ows and
several of the speakers, received in the beautiful parlor of the
St. Cecilia, thus giving delegates and visitors an opportunity to
meet the people of the city and to exchange social greetings with
each other.

The Ladies' Literary Club, which also owns its home, kept open
house several afternoons from four to six, the officers receiving
the guests and serving light refreshments. This club also
tendered the freedom of its house for any and all hours of the
day to the delegates. Saturday afternoon the Federation of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Unions of Grand Rapids received the
convention at the Young Woman's Building, where a substantial
supper was served. The Bissell carpet-sweeper factory, president,
Mrs. M. R. Bissell, presented to the delegates one hundred and
fifty specially made small carpet-sweepers, each marked in gilt,
National American Woman Suffrage Association.

But to the Board of Trade belongs the honor of having outrivaled
all the other kind hosts in the extent of their hospitality. They
presented to the convention its programs, beautifully printed on
extra fine paper and bearing a picture of the St. Cecilia Club
House. The Board also sent carriages to take the entire working
convention for a drive through the city, a visit to one of the
largest furniture warehouses and to the carpet-sweeper factory,
where Mrs. Bissell received the delegates and all were shown
through the works. A handsome souvenir containing many views of
the city was given by the Board to every delegate.

The ladies of the St. Cecilia were kindness itself, and it was
delightful to hold the meetings in so friendly an atmosphere, as
well as in so well appointed a building. The president, Mrs.
Kelsey, presented to the badge committee St. Cecilia pins having
a reproduction of Carlo Dolci's head of the musical saint after
whom this club is named, the only musical society of women in the
United States which owns a club-house.

Cordial addresses of welcome were made by Emily B. Ketcham,
president of Susan B. Anthony Club; Mary Atwater Kelsey,
president of St. Cecilia; Josephine Ahnafeldt Goss, president of
Ladies' Literary Club; May Stocking Knaggs, president of State
Equal Suffrage Association; Martha A. Keating, president of State
Federat