through
this devotion to a just and holy cause, we rise to a higher plane, we
see with larger eyes, we feel the presence of the real self of our
fellow-worker. We can no more explain why this is so than we can
analyze 'mother love,' or the love of a daughter for a father but we
know it. It is for this reason your treasurer rejoices over the day
she was so placed, either by design or chance, and so blessed with
perfect health that she was able to serve in the cause of woman's
political freedom." Mrs. Upton referred to Mrs. Cornelia C. Hussey's
bequest of $10,000 and that of Mrs. Henrietta M. Banker, from which
the association realized $3,000.

Detailed and valuable reports were made by the chairman of committees
on Presidential Suffrage, Federal Suffrage, Congressional Work, Civil
Rights, Church Work, Enrollment and others. Mrs. Catt reported for the
Committee on Literature. Mrs. Catt with Mrs. Blankenburg (Penn.), Mrs.
Lucy Hobart Day (Me.) and Mrs. Minola Graham Sexton (N. J.),
presidents of their State associations, presided over Work
Conferences. Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer, in her report on Libraries and
Bibliography, brought to light the lax manner in which many State
libraries are conducted. In that of New Jersey no catalogue had been
printed for fifty years. In Montana the collection of books was
thirty-five years old and had never been catalogued or classified.
Various librarians reported no works on woman suffrage and women from
those States rose in the audience and said that they had themselves
presented the History of Woman Suffrage--four large volumes. Mrs.
Elnora M. Babcock (N. Y.), chairman of the Press Committee, reported
93,600 general articles sent out; 3,665 special articles, much plate
matter, many personal sketches, photographs, etc., and a number of new
papers added to her list.

Mrs. Maud Nathan read the report of Mrs. Florence Kelley, chairman of
the Committee on Industrial Problems Affecting Women and Children. As
executive secretary of the National Consumers' League Mrs. Kelley was
well qualified to speak and she gave an account of the labor laws in
the southern States affecting girls between 16 and 21, who are neither
children nor women, which was heartbreaking. Pennsylvania was equally
guilty but most of the northern States had improved their laws,
Illinois leading; in none, however, were they wholly adequate. She
urged the appointment of more women factory inspectors, who were now
employed in o