lucination. It is--it must
be--simply the waning intellect returning to childish teachings.

That evening we visited the House of Commons and heard several
members speak as we peeped through the wire latticework of the
ladies' cage. The next afternoon we attended a large reception at
Mrs. J. P. Thomasson's, daughter of Margaret Bright Lucas and wife
of a member of Parliament. There we met the leading suffrage women.
Wednesday morning I went to Tunbridge Wells--thirty miles--to see
Mrs. Rose, who is trying the waters there in hope of relief.... I
should have told you that I dined on Sunday with Margaret
Lucas--John Bright's sister--and lunched today with Mrs. Mellen,
mother-in-law of General Palmer, of Colorado, president of the Rio
Grande R. R.--an elegant and wealthy woman.

LONDON, June 22.

MY DEAR SISTER: ... Sunday morning we went to hear Stopford Brooke,
a seceder from the established church. I could see no diminution in
the poppings up and down, nor in the intonings and singsongs, but
when, after a full hour of the incantations, he came to his sermon
on the Christian duty of total abstinence, he gave us a splendid
one. Before commencing he said that, from his request the previous
Sunday, twenty members out of his congregation of 600 came to the
meeting to form a Church Total Abstinence Society, and ten of those
made special and earnest protest against the formation of such a
society! Can you imagine the chilliness of the spiritual air in
that church as he laid down the Christian's duty of denying himself
that he might save his fellow who had not the power to drink
moderately?

Afterwards, we called on Hon. William D. Kelley, wife and daughter
Florence, of Philadelphia. We also attended a reception at Emily
Faithfull's and met a number of nice people; then took underground
railway for Bedford Park and had tea with Eliza Orme, England's
first and only woman lawyer--or as nearly one as she can be and not
have passed the Queen's Bench. Her mother was lovely and so proud
of her daughter and glad to see me. Miss Orme has a partner, Miss
Richardson, who is a member of the London school board and has
visited our schools in America. She says London has none, public or
private, to compare with tho