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 mothers as to how the President (then a very ill man) should conduct himself. The language used was of reprehensible rudeness. The exhortations themselves appeared to be irrelevant. "American women demand that anarchy in the White House be stopped!" puzzled the onlookers, who wondered what was happening in that sad abode of pain, what women these were who knew so much about it, and why a children's crusade had been organized for the control of our foreign and domestic policies.

The last query is the easiest answered. Picketing is a survival of the childish instinct in the human heart. It represents the play-spirit about which modern educators talk so glibly, and which we are bidden to cherish and preserve. A society of "American Women Pickets" (delightful phrase!) is out to enjoy itself, and its pleasures are as simple as they are satisfying. To parade the