n males, and under
their instruction our schools have been improving for some years.
There is less kicking and cudgeling, and more attention is given
to that best of all rules, "The Golden Rule." If they are more
efficient as teachers is it not fair to presume that they would
excel as committees?

Very respectfully yours,

LLEWELLYN A. WADSWORTH.

The editor of the _Press_ adds to the above his own endorsement, in
these words:

We are pleased to have Mr. Wadsworth's explanation of the reform
movement in Hiram, which we had been misled into crediting to the
Democrats. * * * Go on, Mr. Wadsworth, you have our best wishes.
There is nothing in the way of the general adoption of your ideas
but a lot of antiquated and obsolete notions, sustained by the
laughter of fools.

The same year we have the report of the first suffrage society in
that State, which seems to place Maine in the van of her New
England sisters, notwithstanding the great darkness our
correspondent deplores:

DEAR REVOLUTION: A society has just been organized here called
the Equal Rights Association of Rockland. It bids fair to live,
although it requires all the courage of heroic souls to contend
against the darkness that envelopes the people. But the
foundation is laid, and many noble women are catching the
inspiration of the hour. When we are fully under way, we shall
send you a copy of our preamble and resolutions.

ELVIRA C. THORNDYKE, _Cor. Sec'y_.

The Hon. John Neal, who was foremost in all good work in Maine, in
a letter to _The Revolution_, describes the first meeting called in
Portland, in May, 1870, to consider the subject of suffrage for
woman. He says:

DEAR REVOLUTION: According to my promise, I sent an advertisement
to all three of our daily papers last Saturday, in substance like
the following, though somewhat varied in language:

ELEVATION OF WOMAN.--All who favor Woman Suffrage, the
Sixteenth Amendment, and the restoration of woman to her
"natural and inalienable rights," are wanted for
consultation at the audience room of the Portland Institute
and Public Library, on Wednesday evening next, at half-past
seven o'clock. Per order