age-earner and the capitalist; that of the distribution of the
necessities of life; that of the congestion in the cities and
depopulation of the country districts. These and many others will
take all the wisdom and sympathetic insight of men and women
together to solve them. I am glad that men are to have the help
of women. They are just entering on their career of greater
usefulness in public affairs. With the ballot in their hands they
will be endowed with a power much stronger than they have ever
had before and they will wield it, I am sure, on the side of
right and justice.

Sunday evening the officers of the association were "at home" to
delegates, speakers and friends in the parlors of the Hotel Seelbach.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who, to the great happiness of suffragists
on several continents, had entirely recovered her health, was now
making a trip around the world in the interest of the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance, of which she was president. At one session a
letter from her was read, dated at Kimberly, South Africa, which was
enthusiastically received. It said in part:

At the very moment that you will be planning the work for the
sixty-third year of the American suffrage campaign, the
suffragists of this new-east of all nations will be sitting in
their first national convention at Durban, the metropolis of
Natal. The movement here is young but is wholly unlike the
beginnings of the campaigns in England and America, for our
revered pioneers fought their battle against the prejudice and
intolerance of their time for the women of the whole world. These
women are beginning at the very point where we of the older
movements find ourselves today. The old-time arguments are not
heard and here, as everywhere, expediency and political advantage
are the causes of opposition.

No two cities could be more unlike than Louisville and Durban.
The latter lies in a tropical country with its buildings buried
in masses of luxuriant and brilliant flora, all unfamiliar to
American eyes. The delegates will look out upon the placid waters
of the Indian Ocean and will ride to and fro from their meetings
in rickshas drawn by Zulus in the most fantastic dress
imaginable, the chief feature being long horns bound upon the
head. In Louisville it will be autumn, in Natal it will be