one on treatment of women by its Legis., 192;
early education of women, 192;
women taxpayers, 240.
_See_ State chapter.

MATRIARCHATE, Mrs. Spencer on evolution of family life, 328 et seq.;
1041.

MEDICINE, early struggles of women to study, 296;
letter from Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, 301;
efforts of wom. in, 275, 355;
statistics of women physicians, 275, 355, 370;
first woman to graduate, 355; 463; 574;
first to practice, 748;
only woman dean of mixed college, 610;
Johns Hopkins Medical, 700;
medical societies in N. J., 833;
first woman's med. coll., 904;
tribute of women in, on Miss Anthony's 80th birthday, 394.
_See_ also State chapters under _Occupations_, and for physicians
in institutions under _Office Holding_.

MICHIGAN, Munic. Suff. Bill vetoed, xv;
vote on suff. amend., 35;
Nat'l. Ass'n. meets, 322.
See State chapter.

MILITARY, argument against wom. suff., nearly obsolete, xxxi;
Sen. Palmer on, 64;
military questions must give way to economic, 69;
ability to bear arms not a voting test, 82;
Sen. Blair on military service no connection with suff., 87;
same on women can fight, 90;
Sen. Brown on women and military service, 94, 96, 100;
woman's record, 101, 113;
nation's debt to her, 115;
brute force passing away, 121;
woman's part in war, 161-2, 195;
fighting qualities necessary in women, 183;
women first to see advantage of peace, 208;
Miss Clay on the military argument before Senate Com., 309;
Miss Shaw on, 337;
how women would have managed Span. Am. War, 339.

MINISTERS, early women, 59, 260;
Rev. Anna Howard Shaw on women ministers, 206;
tribute from, on Miss Anthony's 80th birthday, 397; 464;
ministers in favor of wom. suff., 1079. _See_ Sermons.

MINNESOTA, difficulty of carrying wom. suff. amend., xvi;
Amer. Suff. Ass'n. meets in Minneapolis, 411.
_See_ State chapter.

MOTHERHOOD, xxxi;
needed in politics, 40;
not a limitation, 58;
Mrs. Stanton on ancient idea of, 60;
Sen. Blair on maternity and suff., 91;
Sen. Brown on, 94 et seq.;
Sen. Dolph on, 103;
Sen. Eustis on, 104;
Sen. Vest on, 106;
Miss Willard asks suff. for mothers, 142;
mothers should be honored equally with fathers, 194;
mothers should be exempt from wage-earning, 211;
child dearer than all else, 226