ffrage for women and eligibility to all
offices. Mr. Thorvoddsen introduced the bill, which was not
considered, but one was passed giving the Municipal franchise and
eligibility to all women in the Reykjavik and one other district,
which became law Jan. 1, 1908. The association carried on a vigorous
campaign and four women were elected to the council of Reykjavik. Its
president then made a two months' tour of the country and organized
five branches. At all political meetings the women had resolutions
presented for equal suffrage and eligibility, which were usually
carried unanimously. On April 15 a law was passed extending Municipal
suffrage and eligibility to all women.

In 1911 women were made eligible to all State offices, including those
of the church, and a constitutional amendment was passed granting the
complete franchise. It had to pass a second Althing and political
questions arose which were all absorbing until 1914. Then the
amendment passed but a compromise had to be made fixing the age for
women at 40, to be lowered annually, under much protest, but Premier
Eggers refused to submit it to the King of Denmark for his sanction.
It had to wait until another took the office and finally was signed
June 19, 1915, two weeks after the women of Denmark were fully
enfranchised. In 1918 a referendum was taken, in which women voted,
on making Iceland an independent State having a personal union with
Denmark and the same King, which resulted favorably. A new Althing was
elected Nov. 15, 1919, and a new constitution adopted which gave to
women full suffrage at 25, the same age as to men.

SWEDEN.

The story of Sweden is especially interesting as the women were the
first in Europe to have the Municipal vote and among the last to have
the Parliamentary. In 1862 widows and spinsters who had paid taxes had
a vote for all officers except members of the Parliament. In 1909 they
were made eligible for the offices. Later this franchise was enlarged
to admit married women, and in 1918 it was made universal for men and
women of 23 without taxpaying requirements. This chapter is indebted
for much of the information in it to Mrs. Anna B. Wicksell, who was a
delegate from Sweden to Berlin in 1904, when the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance was formed and is now a vice-president. Mrs.
Wicksell gained international fame when her Government appointed her a
delegate to the League of Nations meeting at Geneva in 1920-21 and she
w