ized and empowered to appoint a
committee of this association to meet a similar committee
appointed by the National W. S. A., to consider a satisfactory
basis of union, and refer it back to the executive committees of
both associations for final action.

A pleasant incident of the convention was the presentation to the
audience of Mrs. E. R. Hunter, of Wichita, Kan., a real voter. Letters
of greeting were read from Miss Matilda Hindman of Pennsylvania,
Senator M. B. Castle of Illinois, Mrs. Mary B. Clay of Kentucky, and
Judge Stanton J. Peelle of Indiana. Mrs. Stone, the Rev. Antoinette
Brown Blackwell and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore were elected delegates to
the International Council of Women to be held in Washington, D. C., in
1888, with Dr. Mary F. Thomas, Miss Mary Grew and Mrs. Hannah M. Tracy
Cutler as alternates.

After Mrs. Howe's address on the last evening, The Battle Hymn of the
Republic was sung standing, the great assembly joining in the chorus.
The officers had the pleasure of visiting Bryn Mawr College, by
invitation of Dean M. Carey Thomas, during the convention.

In December of this year, a Suffrage Bazar was held in Boston for the
joint benefit of the American W. S. A. and of the State suffrage
associations that participated,[143] which was a success both socially
and financially. The _Woman's Journal_ of December 17 said:

Music Hall is a wonderful sight; the green and gold banner of
Kansas occupies the place of honor in the middle of the platform,
flanked on the left by the great crimson banner of Michigan with
its motto "Neither delay nor rest," and on the right by the blue
flag of Maine, decorated with a pine branch and cones. The bronze
statue of Beethoven which has looked calmly down upon so many
different assemblages in Music Hall, gazes meditatively at the
Kansas table, with a large yellow sunflower which surmounts the
Kansas banner blazing like a great star at his very feet. Next
comes the banner of Vermont, rich and beautiful, though smaller
than the rest, in two shades of blue, with the seal of the State
in the center surrounded by wild roses and bearing the motto
"Freedom and Unity." At the extreme right of the platform hangs
the banner of Pennsylvania, yellow, with heavy crimson fringe and
the motto "Taxation _with_ Representation." On the other side of
Michigan is a large portrait of Wendell