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Rh to resolve to reform. (Bravo, from all sides.) Instead of scolding my sister, I am, on the contrary grateful to her that she took this opportunity to use a most drastic and energetic method, when, hitherto, she had exhausted all remonstrances and admonitions in vain. For the crime that I committed in this assembly I now atone, with the confession that the method has proved effective, and with the promise that never again shall either pipe or cigar touch my lips. (Bravo.) I have always been for woman's rights. I am glad that I also give you an opportunity to exercise them, especially the right to free men from their evil habits, assumptions, vulgarities and vices.

General clapping of hands. The motion is accepted.

After all the propositions were disposed of, the President closed the transactions with the following farewell address:

IDA JOH. BRAUN — Permit me to make a few closing remarks concerning the question which has been the subject of our transactions. It is a question of such transcendent importance that even among those who advocate it, perhaps the very fewest are able to realize its entire scope. In the race's struggle for development, hitherto, the issue has always been between hostile forces within the masculine half of humanity, of which the feminine half was merely a passive appendage, always sharing the fate of the former. Now, at last, the feminine