on a bicycle, and though in our conservative South, we
have still some preachers with Florida moss on their chins, who
storm at the woman on her wheel as riding straight to hell, we
believe, with Julian Ralph, that the women bicyclists "out-pace
their staider sisters in their progress to woman's emancipation."

Clark Howell, the brilliant Georgian, in his recent address
before the Independent Club, set people to talking about him,
from Niagara Falls in the East to the Garden of the Gods in the
West, by his elucidations of "The Man with his Hat in his Hand;"
but I propose to show you to-night a greater--the Woman With Her
Bonnet Off, who speaks from the platform in a Southern city. You
know how the women of the stagnant Orient stick to their veils,
coverings for head and face, outward signs of real slavery. The
bonnet is the civilized substitute for the Oriental veil, and to
take it off is the first manifestation of a woman's resolve to
have equal rights, even if all the world laugh and oppose.

In South Carolina the first newspaper article in favor of woman
suffrage written by a woman over her own name, was met by the
taunt that she had imbibed her views from the women of the North.
But this was merely ignorance of history, for the story of woman
suffrage in the South really antedates that in New England. The
new woman of the new South, who asks for equal rights with her
brother man, is in the direct line of succession to that
magnificent "colonial dame," Mistress Margaret Brent of Maryland,
who asked for a vote in the Colonial Assembly after the death of
her kinsman, Lord Baltimore, who had endowed her with powers of
attorney. Margaret Brent antedated Abigail Adams by over a
century.

Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, State librarian, depicted Municipal Suffrage in
Kansas, with the knowledge of one who had been a keen observer and an
active participant.[123] Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway described the work
which had been and would be done in the interest of the approaching
suffrage amendment campaign in Oregon.

On Tuesday evening Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd (Mass.), under the head of
The Village Beautiful, told what might be accomplished toward the
beautifying of towns and cities if the authority and the means were
allowed to women. This was followed by a strong, clear business talk
from Mrs. A. Emmage