r conditions for working women? We
might despair of reaching either the overworked, underpaid and
unresponsive wage-earner, or the indifferent, irresponsible and
almost inaccessible woman of fortune, were it not that all along
the social line we are linked by one common possession, our
womanhood, which, when awakened, is the Divine Motherhood and it
is to this we must appeal.

Miss Anthony presided at the Friday evening public meeting, which was
opened with prayer by the Rev. Gilbert Dobbs, who said: "We invoke Thy
divine blessing, O God, upon this assembly and we rejoice that Thou
hast always opened the way for Thy consecrated servants--women--to do
well from the time of Miriam and of Deborah to the present. While not
often has the call been to women to don armor and press on to battle,
yet it may be that Thou hast reserved them for the battle of ballots,
in which they can secure victory for all moral good and aid in the
overthrow of every organized vice and infamy, so that there shall be a
higher type of public morals and nobler methods of government."

Mrs. Bennett spoke in her humorous and inimitable way on The Authority
of Women to Preach the Gospel of Christ in Public Places. Mrs. Rachel
Foster Avery (Penn.) under the title What's in a Name? told of the
efforts that were being made by the conservative women of Philadelphia
to reform municipal conditions through Civic Betterment Clubs, not by
the ballot in the hands of women but through the men voters. "Yet,
after all," she said, "are not these clubs doing good work for woman
suffrage under another name? For as these earnest but conservative
women find themselves in contact with life at so many new points they
are getting so used to all the things which go to make up that awful
bugaboo, 'politics,' that they will soon begin to realize that
politics affects for good or evil all the things which touch the daily
lives of every one of them. After awhile, perhaps sooner than most of
us think, they will join the ranks of the wiser women who are now
suffragists and who know that they want the vote and why they want
it."

Miss Frances Griffin (Ala.) kept the audience in a gale of laughter
from the first to the last of her speech, which began: "My address is
put down on the program as 'A Song or a Sermon.' It is going to be
neither, I have changed my mind. Mrs. Catt's address last night
furnished argument enough to lie three feet deep all ov