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 THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE 835 received. The Bohemian delegate, Marie Tumova, could not be present because making a campaign for election to the Diet. The delegates had a strenuous time trying to attend the busi- ness meetings, listen to the excellent programs of prominent speakers, go to the enjoyable social affairs and make the visits and excursions to the many historical places in and around London which most of them had always longed to see. The Kxecutive Committee of the National Union, Mrs. Favvcett, chair- man, served as Reception Committee; its treasurer, Miss Bertha Mason, expended the large fund subscribed for the use of the convention; the Press Committee managed the newspapers through Miss Compton Burnett; Mrs. Anstruther, Rutland House, Portland Gardens, had the exacting but pleasant duties of chairman of the Hospitality Committee. A delightful reception on Sunday evening, April 25, at the Lyceum Club, introduced the pleasures of the week, which ended with a handsome reception given by the Men's League for Women's Suffrage on Saturday evening. There was a brilliant official dinner at Prince's Restaurant and there were teas and concerts and dramatic entertainments. To most of the delegates the weeks were the richest in experience ever known, with the specially conducted visits to famous universities and schools; cathedrals and abbeys; galleries and palaces; courts and gardens every spot filled with historic associations for Knglish speaking people and with intense interest for those of other countries. F>r delegates concerned with civic and social work there was the keenest enjoyment in the socialized and extensive developments along many lines. The Minutes of the convention thus describe one of its leading events: 1 the Royal Albert Mall under the aUSpi (if the London Society for V, Suffrage afforded the- delc- arnestness of the British . A pi- oi" wciiii. rd in varior and emblems of their work, marched from
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march with finite: and swiii^inij lanterns aloni; the darken- ing ti A- n d the hall and trad- : profe ' li ere seated women n| all nati