to the family
till we have done our best to serve the State.

Miss Shaw took up this subject, saying:

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will
not come until they do vote. If a woman has only a little brain,
she has a right to the fullest development of all she has.... If
we are to keep our children healthy, as Mrs. Stetson says is our
duty, pure water is essential. I know a city (Philadelphia) where
you can fast for forty days, drinking only water, and grow
fat--because you have chowder every time. Is there any reason why
women should not have a vote in regard to water-works? A woman
knows as much about water as a man. Generally, she drinks more of
it. See how the street cleaners sweep the dirt into heaps on
Monday and leave it to blow about until Saturday, before it is
taken up. Any housekeeper would know better. Sewers and man-traps
spread disease literally and also metaphorically. You may teach
your boy every precept in the Bible from beginning to end, and he
will go out into the street and be taught to violate every one of
them, under the protection of law, and you can't help yourself or
him.

At one of the morning meetings Miss Anthony said in response to a
message from the W. C. T. U. accompanied by a great bunch of daisies:
"We always are glad to receive greetings from this society, because
one of its forty departments is for the franchise. The suffrage
association has only one, but that one aims to make every State a true
republic." She continued: "A newspaper of this city has criticized the
suffrage banner with its four stars and has accused us of desecrating
our country's flag. But no one ever heard anything about desecration
of the flag during the political campaign, when the names and
portraits of all the candidates were tacked to it. Our critics compare
us to Texas and its lone star. We have not gone out of the Union, but
four States have come in. Keep your flag flying, and do not let any
one persuade you that you are desecrating it by putting on stars for
the States where government is based on the consent of the governed,
and leaving them off for those which are not."

State Senators Rowen, Kilburn and Byers brought an official message
inviting the convention to visit the Senate and select certain of
their members to address that body. Each of these gentlemen spoke
briefly but unequivoca