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mittee on Hygiene and Dress,
the chairman being absent. The Press
committee was also unprepresented.
Mrs Avery, chairman of Literature
committee, distributed leaflets among
members, and read several able articles
Municipal Suffrage for women, by
Ednah D Cheney, in which the writer
says: - The object of town and city gov-
ernments should be mainly for
the protection of homes; - that the town
is only an enlarged house-hold, and
the same qualities of care and thrift -
and attention to details which women are
called upon to exercise in their house-
holds, are needed in the town.
In the house-hold men and women
work well in unison. - Why not in the
town? That Massachusetts has settled
the abstract principle of the right and
propriety of women's voting, by the ready
assent for such she gave to the demand
that women should be empowered to
vote in the election of school trustees. -
That if they are able to aid in choosing
the officers with whom rests one of
the most important functions of the
State, - the education of its citizens, it is
impossible to say - "Women are by nature
unfitted to take any part in the gov-
ernment of city, state, or nation. That we
must go on from the first step is evident
From the "Woman's Column" an arti-
cle was read embodying a letter written by