FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 73 



that became a ruler. She is the only animal that works day 

 and night. It was she who stood at the hospital door and fur- 

 nished the elixir of life that restored the emaciated victim of 

 disease who was hovering on the brink of the River Styx. 



I want to say just a word, especially to the young ladies 

 that are before me as to the importance of the mission that they 

 have. I attended a meeting of the Women Housewives' League 

 in Chicago where various matters were up for discussion and 

 among them came up this butter proposition, how it was made, 

 and what they wanted to know how it can be improved on, how 

 they can tell the difference between good and bad butter and 

 oleomargarine, and do you know that there is an enemy in the 

 camp? The brother of this cow is making strides towards com- 

 peting with her, and in that meeting when they talked about 

 legislation in favor of certain things in connection with the 

 dairy business the president said : ''It is not necessary, public 

 demand will regulate that," that what they demanded they 

 would get, and as I grow older, nothwithstanding I have had 30 

 years' experience of where a woman is boss, as I grow older I 

 note more and more the wonderful influence and the important 

 part played by the women of our country and I am reminded 

 of the committee that visited the governor about breakfast time 

 and the darky in charge of the door went up to the governor's 

 room and said : ''There is a committee downstairs that wants to 

 see you." "Tell them I'll be down in a minute," was the gov- 

 ernor's reply. His wife turned to Sam and said "Tell them 

 the governor will be down as soon as he has finished his break- 

 fast." Whereupon the governor said: "Sam, you know who is 

 governor?" and Sam said: "Yes, I will tell them you will be 

 down after breakfast." And I want to say that you have a 

 wonderful influence and I beg you to exert it in the right di- 

 rection. 



I am thinking of a dream a bride had. She told it to her 

 husband in the morning at breakfast and she says : "I dreamed 

 last night that I was out shopping and I passed a place where 

 there was a big sign that said "Husbands for sale" so I thought 

 I'd go in and look them over and see what they were like. I 

 found them all prices and all sizes, some as low as $2.00 and 



