urch Philanthropies. Mrs. May Wright Sewall
(Ind.) demonstrated the wonderful Progress of Women in Education. The
New Education possessed the charm of novelty in being presented by
Miss Grace Espy Patton, State Superintendent of Public Instruction in
Colorado, a lady so delicate and dainty that, when Miss Anthony led
her forward and said, "It has always been charged that voting and
officeholding will make women coarse and unwomanly; now look at her!"
the audience responded with an ovation.

Miss Belle Kearney (Miss.) discussed Social Changes in the South,
depicting in a rapid, magnetic manner, interspersed with flashes of
wit, the evolution of the Southern woman and the revolution in customs
and privileges which must inevitably lead up to political rights. Mrs.
Mary Seymour Howell (N. Y.) gave an eloquent review of the splendid
services of Women in Philanthropy.

At the memorial services Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby (D. C.) offered the
following resolutions:

It is fitting in this commemorative celebration to pause a moment
to place a laurel in memory's chaplet for those to whom it was
given to be the earliest to voice the demand that woman should be
allowed to enter into the sacred heritage of liberty, as one
made equally with man in the image of the Creator and divinely
appointed to co-sovereignty over the earth. To name them here is
to recognize their presence with us in spirit and to invoke their
benediction upon this generation which, entering into the results
of their labors, must carry them forward to full fruition.

Lucretia Mott always will be revered as one of those who
conceived the idea of a convention to make an organized demand
for justice to women. She became a Quaker preacher in 1818 at the
age of twenty-five, and the last suffrage convention she attended
was in her eighty-sixth year. Her motto, "Truth for authority and
not authority for truth," is still the tocsin of reform. Sarah
Pugh, the lovely Quaker, was ever her close friend and helper.

Frances Wright, a noble Scotchwoman, a friend of General
Lafayette, early imbibed a love for freedom and a knowledge of
the principles on which it is based. In this the land of her
adoption she was the first woman to lecture on political
subjects, in 1826.

Ernestine L. Rose, the beautiful Polish patriot, sent the first
petition to the New York Legi