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is eating. Nature has fixed the color of butter so we 

 are not to interfere there; but I believe we dairy peo- 

 ple are as much interested in fixing a color for bogus 

 butter as we are in choosing the national flower. We 

 certainly have a right to be. 



In the meantime we will gather all the "gear " we 

 can, believing there is enough of it if we work for it to 

 give us 



" That glorious privilege 



Of being independent." 



Music . — High School. 



Address 

 MRS. R. HOWARD KELLY, Chicago. 



Called on to speak in the absence of a lady mem- 

 ber* whose subject was announced as : 



"Dairywomen at the World's Fair." 



Mr. President, I certainly shall make no pretense of 

 filling the place made vacant by Mrs. Wiles' absence, 

 and for several good reasons. In the first place, I 

 never made a speech in my life, and would not pre- 

 sume to be able to fill the place of a lady who is so 

 well known as a speaker. In the second place, as some 

 of you very well know, my acquaintance with the 

 dairy consists chiefly in slipping into a cellar on a hot 

 August day after a more or less successful fishing ex- 

 cursion, and disposing of a pint or two of cold butter- 

 milk. 



In the last place, I much fear that, should I under- 

 take to speak on this subject, I should not do the lady's 

 cause much good, because, for my part, except in the 



*Mrs. Robert H. Wiles, Vice-president Illinois Woman's Exposi- 

 tion Board, was prevented from being present on account of the 

 Board's holding a session in Chicago on this evening. 



