rnoon session, which was as cordially accepted. Mrs. Ben Hardin
Helm, a sister of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, was greeted and expressed her
sympathy with the work of the association.

After these pleasant ceremonies at the morning session the convention
immediately proceeded to business and listened to the reports from the
various committees. That of the new corresponding secretary, Mrs. Mary
Ware Dennett, gave a graphic illustration of the rapid increase in the
size and scope of the work in her department. After describing the
demands from almost every State and saying that the correspondence had
doubled during the past year while the output of literature had
tripled, she continued:

The correspondence with Canada has been very interesting and has
steadily increased and we have sent a good deal of literature to
British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia. Literature and letters
have gone to Switzerland, Finland and even Japan, in answer to
requests, the Japanese correspondent being in the midst of
writing a book on the rights of women, because, as he quaintly
put it, he believed there was "undoubtedly a truth in it." We
have a steadily increasing stream of requests for suitable
programs for study clubs, also a sudden spurt of requests for
suffrage speakers from the Federation of Women's Clubs. The
example of the last Biennial, when woman suffrage appeared for
the first time on the official program of the Federation, has
precipitated almost an epidemic of suffrage meetings in the State
federations and local clubs.

The Official Board of the association has made a serious
recommendation to the State officers to push the plan of
political district organization as the best and most systematic
and reliable way of preparing for the submission of a suffrage
amendment. A leaflet giving the details of the plan has been
published and widely distributed and it has been accepted as
scheduled or in modified form in ten States, in most of which the
name Woman Suffrage Party has been adopted, following the example
of New York City, which was the first to adapt the enrollment
work long ago established by the National Association to the
needs of modern political action.... The National office prepared
reports of the work of the association for the meeting of the U.
S. National Council of Women and for the co