.I.' began to
grow they called it the 'California Movement.' Some of the papers in
this State have used the same expression, and the people in California
seem to be pleased with the names given the new sex thought."

Stella laughed, and said: "Well, Stanley, I rather like the names C.I.
and C.M. Don't you, Penloe?"

Penloe said: "Yes, the term or name 'Sex Reform Thought' I think very
ambiguous, but C.I. and C.M. are names which convey to the mind the
ideas they are intended to express."

Brookes said: Stella, I will read you another letter I received from a
friend of mine in Bakersfield:

"BAKERSFIELD, Cal.
"_Stanley Brookes, Esq.,_
"_Roseland, Cal.:_

"DEAR FRIEND BROOKES: Yes, it is just as you say,
Bakersfield may be a very fast town, but there are some
people here who are ripe for the 'C. Movement.' My
experience and what I see here about me every day have
made me so sick of the old ideas concerning sex that it
does me good to see the interest people are taking in
the literature you sent me. One woman told me that the
pamphlet I gave her had been read by nine persons. Say,
old boy, don't you think you could get Penloe and
Stella to come here and wake us up a little more. My,
they would be a drawing-card! I will see that they are
not out anything by coming. Now, do your level best to
get them here, for they would start the ball a-rolling
in fine shape.

"Yours for the 'C.I.,'
"ARTHUR PAINE."

Holding up the package of letters, Brookes said: "Here are letters from
Ventura, San Jose, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Oakland,
Sacramento, and a number of other places, all asking the same question,
'Could I get you both to come to their places to speak.' They all seem
so anxious to see and hear the leaders of the great C.M., and that is
why Herbert and I are here this morning to see if you both will accept
these pressing invitations to speak in a cause which is so dear to you."

Stella said: "I appreciate your kind thoughtfulness in coming out here
to see us, and thus give us an opportunity of talking the matter over
together." Then she was silent, and Barker and Brookes both said
afterwards they never saw Stella look so serious and sober since they
knew her as she looked then. It seemed as if a struggle was g