ung Women's Christian Association. Mrs. Marie Stritt,
Germany; Mme. Maria Verone, France, and Miss Macmillan were appointed
to compile a pamphlet of information about woman suffrage in all lands
to be used for propaganda work.

A delegate from the United States, Professor Mary Gray Peck,
officially connected with its national suffrage headquarters, gave the
following description in a letter to the press:

The ball room of the Grand Hotel where the meetings were held is
a palatial apartment, its walls richly gilded and adorned with
long mirrors between the windows, while from the ceiling hang
great crystal chandeliers, which were always lighted while the
congress was in session. The platform for officers and
distinguished guests was placed between gilded pillars at one end
of the hall, draped and canopied with the national colors of
Sweden, blue and yellow, and the international suffrage colors,
yellow and white. Then there is the memory of other places where
the delegates assembled, the ancient State Church, with its
reminder of St. Paul's in London; the splendid Academy of Music,
with the heraldic banners of the nations suspended around the
gallery; the Royal Opera House with its tiers of balconies and
the rising of the curtain to show the beautiful stage picture of
the speakers and the arch of flowers beneath which they spoke;
the Moorish court in the Royal Hotel, where the reception was
held, with the delightful Birgitta cantata, recalling the heroic
in Swedish womanhood; the open air meeting at Skansen with the
native songs and dances; the farewell in the garden at
Saltsjoebaden, given by the Stockholm society; the peasant singing
and the wonderful ride back to the city by late northern twilight
and moonlight together.

The closing speech of the congress made by the international
president at the close of the dinner at Saltsjoebaden was
something indescribable. She stood on a balcony facing the sunset
sky and blue sea, with pine trees forming an amphitheater in the
background. It was like a triumphant recessional, with
benediction for the past and challenge for the future, and when
the speaker descended from the balcony and went down to the boat
landing followed by the singing of the peasants, the crowd
divided, leaving a wide path, and stood gazing after her a