. Y.), representing
the Equal Franchise Society, of which Mrs. Clarence Mackay was
president, spoke on The Sisterhood of Women, saying in part: "We have
plenty of work to do but it is not that, it is not the organization,
the growth of membership and the spread of theories that make me
confident of success. It is the extraordinary spirit that animates the
women who are working for suffrage, the sense of comradeship and
community among them, rich and poor, educated and illiterate, old and
young, mothers and daughters. We have been taught to admire the 18th
century because it did so much to dissolve class distinctions. It
broke down some of the barriers, not between man and woman, but
between groups of men, for within groups men have always had this
spirit of comradeship, and oh, how they have valued it! They did not
get it in domestic relations, however happy; or in friendships,
however warm. They got it, or rather they found a field in which to
exercise it, in the impersonal activities of their lives, in their
crusades, guilds, colleges, labor unions and clubs. But between women
the barriers have been of a more serious type. They have been
segregated not only class by class but individual by individual and
house by house. Now these barriers too are dissolving. Women are
finding an expression for their sense of comradeship, for their
impersonal loyalty to their own sex; they are waking up to the fact
that a sense of equality is more thrilling to those who have the right
stuff in them than any sense of superiority could ever have been."

Miss Harriet E. Grim of Wisconsin University described The Call of the
New Age to College Women. Miss Juliet Stuart Poyntz, president of
Barnard chapter of the College League, discussed Education and Social
Progress. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gilmer, "Dorothy Dix," in an address on
The Real Reason why Women cannot Vote, gave a delightful imitation of
the voice and words of a wise old negro, "Mirandy," from which the
following is quoted:

Yassum, dat's de trouble wid women down to dis very day. Dey
ain't got no backbone. Of a rib dey was made an' a rib dey has
stayed an' nobody ain't got no right to expect nothin' else from
'em. Hit's becaze woman was made out of man's rib--an' from de
way she acts hit looks lak she was made out of a floatin' rib at
dat--an' man was left wid all his backbone, dat he has got de
comeuppance over woman. Dat's de reason we women se