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Show -- - WOMAN'S EXPONENT. . .iv THE ULTIMATE NATION. - luty : Drank in the sun and laughed, aud sinned and pieci. ,:7"-rr:'- -- be enlarged, interhi-louibe codified, and billions tf dollars would be saved for constructive purposes. .: ;. It is of the utmost consequence that the"86,ooo,ooo Americans whose business and, perhaps, whose lives are to be affect ed by these matters should not be dumb, but should bring public sentiment to bear on the State department, which is to be in this mat-te- r. I therefore recommend thnt indivi. dually, and collectively, in all our. organ izations, we should send brief let ters to Hon. "Elihti Root, Secretary of State. Washington, D. C, expressing the strongj aesire tnat our. government approve the recommendations of the Interparliamentary Union. ' One Babylon, by tenanted, In pleasures palaces and walks of pride. Like a great scarlet flower reared her head," . 59 ":r i and Sidon teemed with ships aload The wharves are idle and the vraters lone; And to the temple that was His abode n vain Jerusalem recalls her own. jWhere.-Tyr- - the byones'from her sculptured seats, In living; rock her mighty memories hewn, Along: the Nile, wonder of water streets, Old fertile Ezypt is a stranger's boon. Brooding: Mark Athens, breathed upon by breath of gods. With bards and sages to reveal her signs. Leap like a Same aSore life's iron clods. To fall in ashes upon vacant shrines. .... .,'"" And Rome, firm founded in a wide emprise: HerTaws and legions, her imperial goal, Avail not- when her sometime honor dies, Smothered in shows that kill the mounting ' soul. ; : m - . Such names of low. pride and power have been brought Lapsing alike into the cavernous years; the gTayness of the long ago Their ghosts flit homeless and we guess their Out of - tears. The destiny of nations! . They arise, Have their heyday of triumph, and in turn Sink upon silence, and the lidless eves Of fate salute them from their final urn. Ho- - splendid-sa- the story! d How the gust and glories shrunk to dust, that ancient opulence a dream. Cities and pomps Must a majestic rhythm of rise and fall Conquer the people once so'proud on earth? Does man but march in circles, after all, - Playing his curious game of death and birth? Or shall an ultimate nation, God's own child, Untouched of time because, all undefined. She makes His ways her ways eternally? Richard Burton, in January Century. . . ance and to- - the stupendous com- - signific- possibilities of the recommendations for the subjects to be brought before the Hague Conference, made by the Interparliamentary Union in the summer of 1906, at its meeting in London. This body of statesmen from the parliaments of the world recommend--e- d (1) the establishment of a periodic Advisory World Congress, (2) the proportionate limitation of armaments, (3) a genefar-reachi- Tb rm who petitioned against it were, few in comparison with the 2 57,600 women Who naa previously petitioned, lor it, but they were enough to show that there are "An-tiin England as well as in America. Their attitude recalls that of certain nonconformist ministers who once petitioned Parliament against abolishing the political disabilities of dissenters. They preferred to remain subjecttoltheirown.political disabilities rather than to ..see 'the Roman Catholics relieved from theirs Th e Maharani of Baroda was el ect ed president of the Ladies' Conference which latel met at Calcutta, a Remarkable assembly of 600 representative women from all parts of India. The president, in her address, remarked that the chief object of the local : ladies', society in the Manila of all Samiti, wasto unite Indian-ladiecreeds, casts and races, just as the men were drawing closer together in common She aims.t aspirations and endeavors. said, We shape the minds of our children in infancy and boyhood. We can inspire them with a legitimate pride in our past history, and a love for our modern liter-tur-e. The manhood and womanhood of India are our handiwork; let us, mothers,-traithem to the service of bur country wherever we may dwell, whatever be our religious creed or our profession in life." It is encouraging to see that even in India women are beginning to get together and plan to serve their country. s" -- s An-tho- Dear Friends: The year 1007 promises to be, one of the most important in the world's history. The Hague Conference, which will probably be held in a few months, will present an opportunity to lessen the misery and waste of the world yet awakened vrir vice-preside- nt EXTRACTS FROM CIRCULAR LETTER OF LUCIE AMES MEAD, the charities of the earth A Mrs. May Wright Sewali presented the plan of the Woman's National Council for a memorial to Miss Anthony in the form of a bust. Mrs. Mary C. Gannett of Rochester presented the plan for a memorial in the form of a building for the women students in the University of Rochester. She moved the adoption of the following resolution: "That the N A. W. S. A. welcomes and approves the proposed memorial to Susan B- - Anthony, and hereby records its endorsement of the plans of the Anthony Memorial Association, and urges of our members--" the hearty Mrs. Rachel Foster Aver' and Mrs. Florence Kelley seconded the motion. Speeches against the resolution were MRS. HOVE AND HER PORTRAIT. made by Miss Clay of Kentucky, Mrs. 44Mrs. Julia Ward Howe attended the Clark of Rochester and Mrs. Churchill qi California, speeches in favor by Mrs. Mc- - exhibition of Mr. Carnig Eksergian's porLean of Ohio, Mrs- - Avery, Mrs. Kelley, traits, held recently in Boston, and made Mrs, Monroe of Kansas, Mrs. Rainsford the rounds of the rooms on the painter's of Rochester and Miss Sweeney of Pitts- arm, stopping a few moments before each picture to comment upon it.: Wearing a burgh, Pa. Miss Shaw called the to the chair and explained' the dress of shimmering pale green silk, .with her white hair and vivid smile, as she friendly feeling that Miss Susan B. had toward a memorial of (his gen leaned on the arm of the slender, dark, eral kind and the great interest that Miss foreign artist, she made so charming a the visitors turned from Mary S. Anthony took in this particular picture that 'all, to look at her, and many plan. Miss Shaw recommended that the the portraits last clause of the proposed resolulion sighed for a camera. Before her own should be changed before it was adopted, portrait, which represents her with her as the N. A. W. S. A., while friendly to arms full,of Easter lilies, she made a longthe Rochester memorial, was going to er pause, and people had a. chance to admire the likeness. This is almost the only urge a special memorial of its own in the form of a $100,600 fund for suffragework. picture of Mrs. Howe which represents I n - her Miss Clay urged that the last eight words h er wi th a smile -- on - her-- face. portraits her Wpression is always sorrowof the proposed resolution be left upbraidGannett consented to leave them ful or stern. Her jiusband once You for this. He are the her. ed said, out, and the resolution, thus amended, jolliest woman T know, yet in your phowas then carried unanimously. Mrs. Ganlook as if I had nett returned thanks in behalf of her as- tographs dragged you through every torment!" Ex. sociation. Mrs. Howe is now collecting the music has deal Miss Victorie de Maligny recently of which she has composed to States United come from Paris to the during her life, and is going to publish a 1 ect the re before lit eratu book of her original songs. They are ureo n French Universities. She will be the first woman great 'favorites with her children and. that has had an engagement to lecture at grandchildren." V -t : Yale. .Whereas in the second Hague Conferwill-boffered the greatest Congress, which appropriated millons ence there for battleships, cut down1 the appropria- opportunity in human history to lessen tion for playgrounds for the children of the burden of militarism: therefore. one-ha- lf Resolved that we request the President Washington f rom $30,000 to- $1 5,000,mothof the United States to approve- the recof what it was last year- If the ers and teachers of America had had a ommendations for the action of the ap "v'ote'for membersof Congress, would riot proaching Plague Conference which were presented by the . Congressmen be likely to pay more re Union. IcTthef interests of the children:" co-operati- on Arise and rule, nor ever conquered be; such as all. Comini? to n And pain and bliss of living tiansient seem! And all NOTES AND NETS. The woc7.-7.fSr?- e bill Mas. again been "talked but" in Parliament, 'afid kept. from ng ral arbitration treaty, (4) the protection of private property at sea from capture in time of war, (5) investigation by an impartial committee of difficulties between nations'; not otherwise settled, before hos tilities can be declared. . ; If these recommendations were acccent-e- d by the Hajgue Conference and ratified by the majority of the forty nations ' re-Presen- ted in it, the machinery for the world's international business would be ready, and the" beginning of the end of" international war would be achieved. In a few years the scope of arbitration would nv . out-Mr- s. you-ahv- ays . a-go- od -- e i - -- Inter-Parliamenta- ry - : |