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guide books, took a donkey ride over the city the second day, and 

 the third day wrote a book about the conditions of the whole 

 country. 



Mirza Ali Kuli Kahn, charge d'affaires of Persia at Washing- 

 ton, and for several years ambassador to the United States, made 

 the one speech of the whole congress assembled. He was brilliant, 

 classical, sentimental, profoundly religious, and withal was a very 

 fluent speaker. I think his talk of about thirty minutes before 

 the joint session did more to establish a kind, friendly feeling for 

 people of all nations than any other one could have done. His 

 plea was for universal peace, universal brotherhood. He paid a 

 most fitting tribute to the women of his native land, and told of 

 a great many lines of work that were being carried on there. He 

 spoke very interestingly of the veiling of Persian women; also 

 touched upon the training of boys and girls, nine years being legal 

 age for separation, at which time they enter separate schools. 



Niel Nielson of Sydney, Australia, was another very interest- 

 ing personage, who spoke of the women of his country; he spoke 

 of social and economic conditions there. He said his daughter could 

 fit herself out in complete costume for about five dollars, and dress 

 as well as any one present at the congress. He made the state- 

 ment that statistics showed the death rate among children there to 

 be the lowest on the face of the earth. Not over sixty-nine out of 

 every thousand children die under four years of age. The gov- 

 ernment takes steps to care for every prospective mother, and for 

 every child that is born, the mother receives $25 from the gov- 

 ernment. 



There were some very interesting women in attendance. From 

 the standpoint of years and activity there was none to equal a Mrs. 

 Card, who is a daughter of Brigham Young. She was one of the 

 pioneers of Alberta and is now quite wealthy. She is evidently 

 still firm in the faith of her father, for there is quite a Mormon 

 settlement about her. Another interesting character who did not 

 appear on the program was a Miss Browning of London, distant 

 relative of Sir Robert. Miss Browning is working in interest of 

 better rural conditions and was in Canada studying existing con- 

 ditions there in the hope of getting new ideas and inspiration. An- 

 other lady of renown from the mother country was a Miss Raven- 

 hill, who has occupied high positions in the educational circles of 

 her country and who is at present living in Vancouver, and is em- 

 ployed by the province of British Columbia. She prepares many 



