(N. Y.), secretary of the King's Daughters, gave a talk which sparkled
with anecdotes and illustrations, every one scoring a point for woman
suffrage. Madame Hanna Korany, from Syria, told in her soft, broken
English how the women of the old world looked to those of America to
free them from the slavery of customs and laws.

Mrs. Miriam Howard DuBose took for her subject Some Georgia
Curiosities, which she showed to be "men who love women too dearly to
accord them justice; women who are deceived by such affection; the
self-supporting woman, who crowds all places where there is any money
to be made without encountering the masculine frown and declares she
has all the rights she wants. Georgia's motto should read: Unwisdom,
Injustice, Immoderation."

Miss Harriet A. Shinn (Ills.), president of the National Association
of Women Stenographers, gave unanswerable testimony from employers in
many different kinds of business expressing a preference for women
stenographers. Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates (Me.) illustrated how class
distinctions, public schools, religious liberty and social life have
been affected by the thought of the times, by fashionable thought. The
official report said: "So bristling with humor was this address that
there were several times when the speaker had to stop and wait for the
laughter to subside. At the conclusion, her effort was acknowledged by
long applause."

Miss Shaw closed an evening which had been full of mirth, saying in
the course of her vivacious remarks:

I spoke at a woman's club in Philadelphia yesterday and a young
lady said to me afterwards: "Well, that sounds very nice, but
don't you think it is better to be the power behind the throne?"
I answered that I had not had much experience with thrones, but a
woman who has been on a throne, and who is now behind it, seems
to prefer to be on the throne.[98] Mr. Edward Bok, editor of the
_Ladies' Home Journal_, says that by careful watching for many
years, he has come to the conclusion that no woman has had any
business relations with men who has not been contaminated by
them; and this same individual who does not want us to have
business relations with men, lest we be contaminated by the
association, wants us to marry these same men and live with them
three hundred and sixty-five and one-fourth days a year!

On Sunday Mrs. Chapman Catt gave a sermon in the People's Church,