Article clipped from Star Tribune

and every farm house can be framed in a bower of beauty. MISS BUfKWKMS STATISTICS. Alice Stone Blackwell, who wears worthily the mantle of her late mother. Lucy Stone Blackwell. is a prominent delegate to the great National Woman Suffrage convention now in session in our city. Miss Blackwell is an adept in statistics, and may be called the most forceful writer of the movement with which she is identified. In a recent issue of the Boston Trans crlpt, she notes some interesting facts brought out in the late report of the "M. A. O. F. E. S. W.," a society so Important in Its own estimation that In naming itself it has exhausted most of the letters of the alphabet. These cabalistic letters really stand for the "Massachusetts Association Opposed, to the Further Extension of Suffrage to Women." The society, with a preat flourish of trumpets, announces that it has now 9, 000 members, and has secured I.OnO new ones during the past year. Miss Blackwell proceeds to prove the exaggeration of this statement. She shows that the members of this association pay no membership fee, that thev have no real organization, that they merely sign a statement on a return postal card that they are opposed to woman suffrage, and that those who have once signed! if it was years a;, are counted members ever after. According to Mrs. Llvermore, those who join this league of many letters show the same amount of interest as those who sign a suffrage petition. The society, with its 28 branches, has this year gained only 1,000 members, while the puffraglsts have sometimes secured 20,000 signatures to their petitions within a single month. Miss lilnckwell goes on to state that on the so-calted referendum in Massachusetts six years ago, 22.904 women voted for suffrage, and only 861 against it. She admits that most women are indifferent on th snfTraize Question, but finds that of those who take any lively interest in the matter either way, the majority are in its favor. She records it as a significant fact that on the same day when the annual report of the annual meeting of the anti-suffragists appeared In the papers, news came that the ballot had been granted to the women of Norway and to the tax-paying women of New York. THE titll.DEN MEAN. had in such that, dukes, apt names and citizen On save the Dollar:" Th'-u For Fur For The Thou Hat On of it Constitution Tin- For And If A life so on here wife, she and child, meanwhile that up. will