r, you will have to move out of the State of
Indiana then, for the law provides for the wife better than that,
and you will have to get another lawyer." It is needless to say
that this lawyer is a staunch champion of woman suffrage, and it
is pleasant to know that there are more such men being educated
by this agitation.

Mrs. Maxwell gave a fine recitation of "The Dying Soldier," at one
of the evening sessions. It was evident by the sparkling eyes of
the Indiana delegation that the ladies had in reserve some pleasant
surprise for the convention, which at last revealed itself in the
person of Judge Orth, a live member of congress from Indiana, who
stood up like a man and avowed his belief in woman suffrage. His
words were few but to the point, and his hearers all knew exactly
where he stood on the question.

The next evening the Nebraska delegation, determining not to be
outdone, captured one of their United States senators and
triumphantly brought him on the platform. It was a point gained to
have a congressman publicly give in his adhesion to the question,
but how much greater the achievement to appear in the convention
with a United States senator. It was a proud moment for Mrs. Colby
when Senator Saunders, a large man of fine proportions, stepped to
the front. But alas! her triumph over the Indiana ladies was short
indeed, for while the senator surpassed the representative in size
and official honors, he fell far below him in the logic of his
statements and the earnestness of his principles. In fact the
audience and the platform were in doubt at the close of his remarks
as to his true position on the question. Mrs. May Wright Sewall,
who followed him, sparkled with the satisfaction she expressed in
paying most glowing tributes to the men of Indiana and their State
institutions. She said:

The principal objection to woman suffrage has always been that it
will take women from their homes and destroy all home life. She
showed that there is not an interest of home which is not
represented in the State, and that the subordination of the State
to the family has kept pace with the subordination of physical to
spiritual force. Woman has an interest in everything which
affects the State, and only lacks the legitimate instrument of
these interests--the ballot--with which to enforce them. Life
regulates legislation. Domestic life is woman's sphere, but a