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How Women can help in Political Work to understand why he can't vote in the street where he now lives.

—In a little country committee-room you may very likely be left in charge while the agent goes out. All kinds of people will come in, and all kinds of messages will be left. Somebody wants some literature for distribution; another can lend a horse and trap on polling day; another has just seen the blind cobbler at the corner, who will "vote straight" if caught early—late in the day he is apt to be a little "mixed" in his ideas, which are then anything but straight. Every­thing, however trivial it may appear, should be carefully noted.

—You will have to deal with all kinds of people, both men and women. There is the local magnate, who, in his own estimation, knows more about working an election than anyone else. He lays down the law to any and every one, and it is as well to let him talk. There 72