er the pastor, with tears rolling down his cheeks,
went up to her with hands outstretched and taking both of hers said:
"I am the happiest man in Sweden." Sunday evening a reception was
given at the Restaurant Rosenbad to the officers, presidents of
national auxiliaries and Swedish Committee of Arrangements by its
chairman, Mrs. Bertha Nordenson. At six o'clock excursions of many
delegates had started to enjoy the long evening when the sun did not
set till nearly midnight.

The official report of the first executive session Monday morning
said: "Miss Janet Richards, delegate from the U. S. A., with an
admirable speech, presented to the Alliance from the State which had
recently given full suffrage to women a gavel bearing the inscription:
"To the International W. S. A. from the Washington Equal Suffrage
Association." It was announced that National Suffrage Associations had
been formed in Iceland and Servia and they were gladly accepted as
auxiliaries, bringing the number up to twenty-six. The municipality
had contributed 3,000 crowns to the congress, which proved to be the
largest ever held in Stockholm. Season tickets had been sold to 1,200
persons and other hundreds bought tickets to the various meetings.
During the entire week the flags of the nations represented at the
congress floated from the flagstaffs that lined the quay in front of
the Grand Hotel facing the royal palace, as far as the eye could
reach. All the time Mrs. Catt was in the city the American flag was
run up for her as a public guest wherever she went and the Swedish
colors dipped a salute.

The Congress was formally opened in the afternoon of June 12 with
addresses of welcome from Miss Anna Whitlock, acting president of the
National Suffrage Association of Sweden, and the Hon. Ernest Beckman,
M. P., president of the National Swedish Liberal Association, and
response from the Alliance was made by Miss Chrystal Macmillan of
Great Britain, proxy for Mrs. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, its first
vice-president. Miss Anna Kleman, president of the Stockholm suffrage
society, then presented the beautiful white satin, gold embroidered
Alliance banner, which was carried by six university students in white
dresses with sashes of the Swedish colors. Mrs. Catt announced that
the Alliance flag was now flying over the Grand Hotel where they were
assembled. The banner was the gift of Miss Lotten von Kroemer, a
pioneer suffragist of Sweden, and the flag of the reside