MASSACHUSETTS 273 England Hospital for Women and Children; Miss Emily Greene Balch, Associate Professor of Economics and Sociology at Wellesley; Miss Caroline J. Cooke, instructor in Commercial Law at Simmons, and Mrs. Park of Radcliffe. On August 13 suffragists from different parts of the State again made a pilgrimage to Lucy Stone's old home, West Brook- field, to celebrate her birthday. Mrs. Cobden Sanderson, a daughter of Richard Cobden, one of the "militant" English suf- fragettes, spoke at the women's colleges and elsewhere. The Boston association, in connection with the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, gave courses in citizenship, addressed by heads of State and city departments. Mrs. Fessenden conducted many classes in Parliamentary practice (these were continued year after year), and there was a "suffrage day" in the woman's department of the great Food Fair. The Association of Collegiate Alumnae celebrated its quarter centennial in Boston November 5-9, which brought many distin- guished suffragists from other States. In 1872 the New Eng- land Women's Club had given a reception for the only three college women then in this city. In 1907 this association had 3,147 members, several hundred of them in Boston alone. At the Whittier Centennial celebration at Amesbury on December 17 the poet's championship of equal rights for women was recalled with his work for other reforms. The Boston Federation of Suffrage Societies was organized by the Association for Good Government. The State Federation of Labor and the State Let- ter Carriers' Association endorsed woman suffrage. The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the Further Ex- tension of Suffrage to Women changed its organ The Remon- strance from an annual to a quarterly and sent out a copy broad- The suffragists followed with an answer. The Woman's Journal pointed out that the M. A. O. F. E. S. W., according to its own official reports, had sold $40.86 worth of literature in 1905, $13.50 worth in 1906 and $12.30 worth in 1907, and that >o6 the total receipts were $2,907, of which $2,018 were expended on salaries. 1 1 At the annual meeting of S. W. on May i, officers were elected ft follows: President. Mr< md Shaw; vice-presidents. Mrs. J. H (dolidRe, Hiss Anna U Dawes, Mrs. Charles D. Homans, Miss Agnes Irwin. Mrs. Henry M. Wl.it
