Association, visited Budapest and addressed
enthusiastic meetings. Later Baroness Alexandra Gripenberg of Finland
and Mrs. Dora Montefiore of England did the same. Strenuous agitation
was kept up, meetings, processions, demonstrations, and half a million
leaflets were distributed. The Government was to discuss a Reform Bill
in 1908 and a determined effort was made to keep the women out of the
House of Parliament as spectators. Mrs. Catt paid another visit that
year and gave ten lectures in eight cities. Eloquent women speakers
went to the aid of the Hungarian women from Berlin, Munich, Berne,
Turin and Rotterdam. In 1910 the conservative National Council of
Women added a woman suffrage committee and a Men's League for Woman
Suffrage of representative men was formed. There were suffrage
societies in 87 cities and towns composed of all classes. The women
were badly treated by all political parties and excluded from their
meetings, the Radicals and Social Democrats being their strongest
opponents. The struggle continued with sometimes a favorable and
sometimes an unfavorable Government and always the contest by men for
their own universal suffrage.

In 1913, through the remarkable efforts of Rosika Schwimmer, the
International Suffrage Alliance held its congress in Budapest with
delegates from all over the world. It was a notable triumph, welcomed
by the dignitaries of the State and city; its meetings for seven days
crowded to overflowing and every possible courtesy extended. The
demand that women should have the vote seemed to have become
universal. Then came the War and all was blotted out for years. When
it was over in 1918 internal revolution followed and out of it came a
Republic but without stability. A law was enacted giving suffrage to
all men of 21 but only to women of 24 who could read and write. Women
voted under it in 1919 and one was elected to the Parliament but the
law has not yet been written into a permanent constitution.

BOHEMIA.

Bohemian women suffered the disadvantages of those of Austria and
could not attend political meetings or form suffrage societies,
although by an old law taxpayers and those belonging to the learned
professions could vote by a male proxy for the members of the Diet of
the Kingdom, and were eligible themselves after the age of 30. They
had a Woman Suffrage Committee and petitioned the Diet to include
women in the new electoral law of 1907 but it received word from
Vienna th