n the air and shout: "What's the matter with
Champ Clark?" Then, when those hats came down, other men would
kick them back into the air, shouting at the top of their voices:
"He's all right!!" Then I heard others howling for "Underwood,
Underwood, first, last and all the time!!" No hysteria about
it--just patriotic loyalty, splendid manly devotion to principle.
And so they went on and on until 5 o'clock in the morning--the
whole night long. I saw men jump up on their seats and jump down
again and run around in a ring. I saw two men run towards another
man to hug him both at once and they split his coat up the middle
of his back and sent him spinning around like a wheel. All this
with the perfect poise of the legal male mind in politics!

I have been to many women's conventions in my day but I never saw
a woman leap up on a chair and take off her bonnet and toss it up
in the air and shout: "What's the matter with" somebody. I never
saw a woman knock another woman's bonnet off her head as she
screamed: "She's all right!" I never heard a body of women
whooping and yelling for five minutes when somebody's name was
mentioned in the convention. But we are willing to admit that we
are emotional. I have actually seen women stand up and wave their
handkerchiefs. I have even seen them take hold of hands and sing,
"Blest be the tie that binds." Nobody denies that women are
excitable. Still, when I hear how emotional and how excitable we
are, I cannot help seeing in my mind's eye the fine repose and
dignity of this Baltimore and other political conventions I have
attended!

One evening session was devoted to Women and Children and the Courts.
Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen of Chicago presided and made a stirring plea for
better conditions in the courts of the large cities. She told of the
outrageous treatment of women and urged the need of women police,
women judges and women jurors. "From the time of the arrest of a woman
to the final disposition of her case," Mrs. Bowen said, "she is
handicapped by being in charge of and surrounded by men, who cannot be
expected to be as understanding and considerate as those of her own
sex. The police stations in most of our cities are not fit for human
beings." Judge of the Juvenile Court Julian Mack of Chicago described
its methods and their results; and Justice Harry Olsen of th