d her courage and devotion in making this
long journey at the age of 85, and afterwards they were remembered
with especial pleasure because it was the last in which she was able
to take an active part."

The social courtesies during the convention were unbounded. The
Woman's Club gave a large evening reception in the rooms of the
Commercial Club and Mrs. Arthur H. Breyman, its president, opened her
handsome residence for an afternoon tea. Mrs. Coe gave a dinner party
of about thirty, her lovely home decorated in yellow flowers, the
suffrage color. Mrs. Hutton had a handsome dinner of thirty covers at
the Portland Hotel and the Ode which she had written and dedicated to
the convention was sung by Mrs. Alice Mason Barnett of San Francisco
here and at the convention. Private dinners and teas were of daily
occurrence and the drives around this beautiful city and its environs
were a never failing delight.

At one evening session C. E. S. Wood (Ore.) spoke on The Injustice of
Majority Rule in a cynical strain, believing that woman suffrage was
right but fearing it would not do as much good as its advocates hoped
for. Now suffrage meant "little stuffed men going to a little stuffed
ballot box" and he was afraid "women would take their place on the
chess board to be moved in the game by some power they did not see."
After he had finished Dr. Shaw observed: "I would rather be a little
stuffed woman having my own say than to be ruled by a little stuffed
man without my consent, and the only way we will cease to have little
stuffed men is for them to be born of free mothers."

Dr. Harriet B. Jones of Wheeling, W. Va., told of the unsuccessful
campaign to have Municipal suffrage for women included in its new
charter. "The anti-suffrage women of New York and Massachusetts," she
said," flooded the newspapers with literature and the heaviest
opposing vote came from the lowest and most ignorant sections of the
city." In answer to the request of the Wheeling women the National
Association had sent Miss Hauser to take charge of the campaign and
appropriated funds for it. A telegram to Dr. Shaw from Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation of Labor, was read, saying:
"Kindly convey fraternal greetings to the officers and delegates of
your convention and the earnest expression of our hope for the
enfranchisement and disenthrallment of women." A telegram of greeting
was received from Mrs. Frederick Schoff, president of the Nat