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All those in favor please signify by saying ''aye," contrary 

 minded, ''no." The motion is carried. 



We were honored, as I said before, in the last speaker being 

 a milestone in our career, but fate has dealt so kindly with us 

 to-day that we not only have one milestone but two. The next 

 speaker will be remembered as a mark of progress of our asso^ 

 ciation ; a lady commissioner of mosquito extermination work, a 

 regular, right-down commissioner, just like all the rest of us. I 

 think it is splendid to have the ladies working with us. They will 

 probably set a pace that will be hard for us men to follow. 



I take great pleasure in introducing to you Mrs. H. Boynton, 

 of Woodbridge, a member of the Middlesex County Mosquito 

 Extermination Commission. She will discuss Mrs. Olsen's 

 paper. 



Mrs. Bertha H. Boynton — Mr. President and Guests: I feel 

 really as though I should go home and write m)^ paper all over 

 again, because I have learned quite a number of things since I 

 came here last evening. I made several corrections, so I may not 

 read it quite as clearly as I wanted to. When Dr. Headlee and 

 Mr. Miller spoke to me about writing this paper I didn't know 

 anything about mosquitoes. Since then I have attended one com- 

 mission meeting, and I have learned a good deal since I came 

 here yesterday. The work that I speak of is work that can really 

 be done by the women of New Jersey if the commissioners will 

 get behind our federation, and it can be very easily done in a 

 systematic manner because there is organization back of these 

 clubs. 



To-day I feel somewhat at a disadvantage — to be one of two 

 lone women among so many business men. After listening tc 

 Mrs. Olsen's paper, so full of wonderful things done by the clubs 

 in our state, I know you are expecting much, and I am here to 

 try to make you see what may be done by the women of New 

 Jersey, if we, as mosquito commissioners, can get and hold their 

 interest. No one can accomplish big results without a vision, and 

 it is for us to give them the vision, and work it out along prac- 

 tical lines so that our dream of a land without the mosquito may 

 come true. If the women of the state put their shoulders to the 

 wheel they can do anything. You surely must begin to realize 

 this when you have heard some of the things they have done. 

 Nothing is too great for them to achieve. I fully believe that, 



