be appropriated from the taxes, of which women pay so large a part. When a woman votes, she votes in an Australian ballot box, very carefully guarded from roughness, and it seems to us only fair to the State activities which are so largely humanitarian that women should have this opportunity.

She trained and reared his able sons,
She helped him make his cash,
She advised him in his business,
She made him act less rash;

And yet he thinks the vote for her
Would be "just so much trash."

She answers all his business notes
In a manner quite "parfait,"

She does all his stenography

And seems to have great sway;
And yet he thinks the vote for her
Would bring "naught but dismay.”

She knows the whys of stocks and bonds,

She knows statistics dull,

She keeps him up on markets

And knows the price to cull; And yet he thinks the vote for her "Would be an awful mull."

She's placed on rate commissions,
She takes part in great debates,
She is asked for her opinion,

She knows causes, bills, and dates;
And yet he thinks the vote for her
Would cause the fall of States.

She's the brains of large conventions,
She knows well the social trend,
She has written books of civics,
She has made great forces blend;
And yet the vote for such as she
He cannot comprehend!

Woman on the Scaffold

By Alice Meynell

(English contemporary. Poet and essayist. From "The Bookman.")

See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of a party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death. She was to spin

and cook for her citizen in the obscurity of her living hours; but to the hour of her death was granted no part in the largest interests, social, national, international. The blood with which she should, according to Robespierre, have blushed to be seen or heard in the tribune was exposed in the public sight unsheltered by her veins. Women

might be, and were, duly silenced when, by the mouth of Olympe de Gougas, they claimed a "right to concur in the choice of representatives for the formation of the laws," but in her person, too, they were liberally allowed to bear responsibility to the Republic. Olympe de Gougas was guillotined. Robespierre then made her public and complete amends.

A Lady Rebel

By Abigail Adams

(Wife of one president of the United States, and mother of another. A brilliant correspondent, her letters showing her to be a woman unusual in breadth of interest, and general culture. The following extract is from a letter written to her husband in 1774, during the session of the First Continental Congress.)

I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. . . . If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

"The Gibraltar of Our Cause"

By Susan B. Anthony

(From a speech delivered at the Suffrage Convention held at Syracuse, N. Y. September 8, 1852. Quoted from "Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony.''*)

The claims we make at these conventions are self-evident truths. The second resolution affirms the right of human beings to their persons and earnings. Is that not self evident? Yet the common law, which regulates the relations of husband and wife, and is modified only in a few instances, gives the "custody" of the wife's person to the husband, so that he has a right to her, even against herself. It gives him her earnings, no matter with what weariness they have been acquired, or how greatly she may need them for herself or her children. It gives him a right to her personal property, which he may will entirely away from her, also the use of her real estate, and in some of the states married women, insane persons and idiots are ranked together as not fit to make a will, so that she is left with only one right, which she enjoys in common with the pauper, the right of maintenance. Indeed, when she has taken the sacred marriage vows, her legal existence ceases. And what is our position politically? The foreigner, the negro, the drunkard, all are entrusted with the ballot, all are placed by men higher than their own mothers, wives, sisters and daughters!

The woman, who, seeing this, dares not maintain her rights is the one to hang her head and

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blush. We ask only for justice and equal rightsthe right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law: these are "the Gibraltar of our Cause.”

A Great Life

By Ida Husted Harper

(Biographer of Susan B. Anthony. From Introduction to the "Life and Works of Susan B. Anthony.")

Those who follow the story of this life will confirm the assertion that every girl who enjoys a college education; every woman who has the chance of earning an honest living in whatever sphere she chooses; every wife who is protected by law in the possession of her person and property; every mother who is blessed with the custody and control of her own children-owes these sacred privileges to Susan B. Anthony beyond all others.

Suffrage a Means to an End

(Contemporary.

By Ella S. Stewart

Ex-President the Illinois Equal Suffrage AsFormer Secretary National American Suffrage As

Suffrage is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. .

The opposition of the liquor forces is not gauged by the number of women actively engaged in temperance work. That number is still comparatively small. It takes no comfort from the fact that suffrage associations are non-partisan on all ques