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Show MRS. MACKAY AT HER WORK. First on the field for the day's hat-tie hat-tie (for every day Is a battle until the suffrage cause shall be won) are Miss Ethel Gross, official secretary of the society, and her assistant wha set the whaels running. Interruptions ore not likely to present themselres rforo 9 o'clock, and it that hour Appears Ap-pears Mrs. Mackay hernelf. iokli:g like an extremely clever sketch lo black and white. The society's picturesque pic-turesque president prefers to ueo the headquarters for all her official worfc and bellevea in the traditional bul-Hens bul-Hens virtues of promptness and regularity. regu-larity. Withdrawing to her own Inner In-ner office, which (s. perhaps, the only office In New York that Is secured from invasion by tho absence vn of a telephone, nh personally opens n' the hundred or more l. tters that rive for her by each morning's ro,t-The ro,t-The beauty of a large crrespon'J-ence, crrespon'J-ence, under these circumstances. 1' the opportunity It offer for prop-gandlstn. prop-gandlstn. and this opportunity Mrs. Mackay never loses sight of. , For, of course, It inn't merely the believers who must be written to they can take care of themselves. But It Is to the timid, the inquiries, the hostile, who must be encouraged, fortified and placated, and for this purpose she supplements her sagacious saga-cious letters by convenient llt'Je agents of publicity, which she Vceps stacked on her desk postal enrds bearing photographs of the society's offices, copies of addresses, notices of meetings. Insinuating leaflets, envelope en-velope slxe. Nobody writes to the Equal Franchise society In vain. Harper's Bazar. |