hip is the one
thing that can save those families which are the tottering
cornerstones of society. A greater service of the developed woman
to the State, however, will be her service in motherhood.... And
yet to hear the sacredness of motherhood advanced as a reason why
women should not become public-spirited and effectual, you would
think this nation had no greater hope than to rear in innocence a
generation of grown-up babies. Keep your mothers in a state of
invalid remoteness from life and who shall arm the young with
intelligent virtue? To educate a child is to lead him out into
the world of experience. It is not to bring him in virgin
innocence to the front door and say, "Now run on and be a good
child!" A million lives wrecked at the very off-go can bear
witness to the failure of this method.

Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch (N. Y.) presided at a symposium on Open
Air Meetings, which were then being much discussed, and they were
advocated by Miss Ray Costello of England; Mrs. Katherine Dexter
McCormick (Mass.), Mrs. Susan W. Fitzgerald (Mass.) and Mrs. Helen
LaReine Baker (Wash.). Mrs. Blatch announced a practical demonstration
that afternoon at the corner of Seventh Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue. Mrs. Catt presided over a conference on Political District
Organization as demonstrated in New York City. An afternoon meeting
was devoted to an Industrial Program arranged by Mrs. Myra Strawn
Hartshorne of Chicago. Conditions affecting Women as Workers and as
Wives and Mothers of Workers were graphically described by Miss Rose
Schneiderman (N. Y.), president of the Cap Makers' Union. The
Consequences to Motherhood and Womanhood, as demonstrated by the White
Slave Traffic, were strikingly pictured by Mrs. Raymond Robins
(Ills.), president of the National Women's Trade Union League. A
private conference, Mrs. Mary Hutcheson Page (Mass.) presiding,
discussed the necessity for defeating anti-suffrage candidates for
Congress and Legislatures. Mrs. Florence Kelley, executive secretary
of the National Consumers' League, brought greetings from the Southern
Conference on Woman and Child Labor, which she had just attended, with
a special one from Miss Jean Gordon (La.), and made a striking
address. Dr. Anna Mercy, president of the first suffrage club on the
East Side of New York, gave practical experiences. Miss Nettie A.
Podell and Miss Bertha Ryshpan, representing t