nity to see an occasional cousin and some leisure for
recreation. At present this would be ruinous, and why? Because
too frequently the family has but one producer. The wife, herself
a consumer, produces more consumers. Daughters grow up around a
man like lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they
spin. Every member of every family in the future will be a
producer of some kind and in some degree. The only one who will
have the right of exemption will be the mother, for a child can
hardly be born with cheerful views of living whose mother's life
has been, for its sake, a double burden. From this root spring
melancholy, insanity, suicide. The production of human souls is
the highest production of all, the one which requires most
preparation, truest worth, gravest care and holiest consecration.
If the girl of the future recognizes this truth, she will have
made an advance indeed. But apart from the mother every member of
the family should be a material producer; and then there will be
means sufficient for the producer in the kitchen to get such
remuneration for her skill as will eliminate the incompetent,
shirking, migratory creature of today....

I hardly need say to this audience that the girl of the future
will vote. She will not plead for the privilege--she will be
urged to exercise the right, and no one will admit that he ever
opposed it, or remember that there was a time when woman's ballot
was despised and rejected of men. She will not be told that she
needs the suffrage for her own protection, but she will be urged
to exercise it for the good of her country and of humanity. It
will not be known that the Declaration of Independence was once a
dead letter. No one will believe that it ever was declared that
the Constitution did not protect this right. It will be
incredible that women were once neither people nor citizens, _and
yet were the mothers, and in so much the creators, of the men who
governed them_.

Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood (D. C.), member-at-large of the World's Fair
Board of Lady Managers, read a carefully prepared statement of the
methods and aims of that body, which began: "The Board of Lady
Managers owe their existence to Susan B. Anthony and her co-workers.
It was these women who went before Congress and not only asked but
demanded that women