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woman suffrage. I can't say that I was part of the work in any way. When I was in Philadelphia Anna Howard Shaw came to make a speech. This was the first time I had an opportunity to hear her. In the audience there were two or three women that I knew. One of them was, I think, Miss Florence Sanville. She was a social worker in Philadelphia. I don't remember what organization she was in, but I remember her. She was probably the Philadelphia secretary of the Consumers' League. At any rate, seeing me she joined up with me and two or three other women and said, “Don't you want to meet Dr. Shaw?”

I said, “Oh, certainly.”

So we went to Dr. Shaw's hotel rooms where Miss Sanville and some others had been invited. There was Dr. Shaw and Mrs. Rachel Somebody-or-other. Those two elderly ladies were delightful as social acquaintances, met after the speech and after the lecture. I remember their laughing about episodes and one of them slapping the knee of the other and saying, “Tell me there's no fun in the suffrage movement.” They were just full of laughter at the strange things that had happened to them in their careers as speakers.

They were both delighted and amused at the change of climate in Philadelphia. There had been tomatoes and eggs thrown at them in Philadelphia the last time they'd spoken there. This time they were received by the best people in