atism. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Snowden of England;
Professor Frances Squire Potter of the University of Minnesota; Mrs.
Lucia Ames Mead of Boston; Professor Nathaniel Schmidt of Cornell and
Professor Earl Barnes of Philadelphia.

On Nov. 3, 1911, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst of England, at the invitation
of the league, lectured in the Odeon, the largest hall in the city, to
an audience that taxed its capacity. Her charming personality set at
rest all fears as to the ill effect of suffrage, even of the
"militant" variety, on feminine grace and refinement. Soon afterwards
the Mary Institute Alumnae Association invited Miss Sylvia Pankhurst
to lecture and the result was most gratifying to the friends of
suffrage.

The old State organization having ceased to exist the St. Louis league
with its branches and the recently formed Webster Groves Suffrage
League, Mrs. Lee Roseborough, president, met in St. Louis Feb. 14,
1911, and organized a State Woman Suffrage Association, which
affiliated with the National American Association. The officers were:
President, Mrs. Atkinson; vice-president, Mrs. Morrison-Fuller;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Boyd; recording secretary, Miss
Rombauer; treasurer, Miss Jane Thompson; auditor, Mrs. R. D. McArthur.
Owing to various causes this board was in a few months reduced to
three working members, Mrs. Atkinson, Mrs. Boyd and Miss Rombauer.
Realizing that it must enlist the support of the press they sent out
letters to a long list of the State editors and favorable replies were
received from twenty-six, who promised to give a weekly column in
their papers for suffrage news and propaganda. All the libraries were
written to and a number of them induced to procure the four large
volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage, generously offered by the
National Association. The librarians, who were often women, were asked
to keep on hand a supply of suffrage literature. The St. Louis public
library, at the suggestion of the board, made a special exhibit of
this literature, much of which was new. In the center of the exhibit
was a large picture of William T. Harris, former superintendent of
schools in St. Louis and later U. S. Commissioner of Education, with
his strong testimony in favor of woman suffrage.

Mrs. Atkinson was permitted to make an address on suffrage before the
State Federation of Women's Clubs at Sedalia but no action was taken.
She also addressed a large audience at the dedication