ed the enclosure Dr. Shaw said: "This is the largest check
I ever held in my hand." The convention rose in appreciation of Mrs.
Lewis's generous gift.

The report of Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer, chairman of the Libraries
Committee, the result of a month's research in the Library of Congress
in Washington and another month in the Public Library of Boston, was
most interesting, as it dealt with old manuscripts and books on the
Rights of Women written in the 16th and 17th centuries. The valuable
report of Mrs. Lucretia L. Blankenburg, chairman of the Committee on
Legislation and Civil Rights, embodied those of presidents of
twenty-three State Suffrage Associations, covering school, labor,
factory and temperance laws, mercantile inspection, juvenile courts,
educational matters, protection of wives and many others relating to
the welfare of women and children, most of them showing advance.

The speakers at the Monday evening session were Miss Harriet Grim,
winner of the Springer prize for the best essay written by an Illinois
college student, who described "The Womanly Woman in Politics"; Mrs.
Katharine Reed Balentine (Me.), daughter of Thomas B. Reed, the famous
Speaker of the lower house of Congress and a staunch suffragist, and
the brilliant orator, Mrs. Philip Snowden of England. Mrs. Balentine
said in beginning her address that now women were voting in Russia she
had the courage to hope that they would sometime obtain the suffrage
in New York, Massachusetts and Maine, and continued in part:

In England the last final argument, that women do not themselves
want the franchise, has in the light of recent events become
ridiculous. On June 13, 15,000 suffragists paraded through the
streets of London and it is said that the woman suffrage meeting
of June 21 was the largest public meeting ever held for any
cause. Fifty thousand women have just stormed Parliament.... No
one now doubts that the women of England want and intend to have
votes. It is said that history repeats itself but this particular
phenomenon--the world-wide claim of women to political equality
with men--has never appeared before; it has no historic
precedent....

Does disfranchised influence, unsteadied by the responsibility of
the ballot and the broadening experience of public service, make
for the greatest good to the greatest number, which is the aim of
true democracy? Can women, and d