the stage, and assumed the duties of her high office, I realized with a swelling heart, and quick sympathy, that a woman could meet the new conditions facing her sex, could cross the threshold of her home and enter into the busy activities of a larger world, illustrate the potentialities of women to be useful as citizens, as patriots in the uplift work of our common country, respond to any reasonable call for co-operation in altruistic endeavor, and be the same woman who typifies the highest ideals of wife, mother and social leader. She can be this and something more by ad- dition, not by substitution. Mrs. Stevenson was a beloved and successful President Gen- eral. The society over which she presided with so much tact, ease, and ability, developed wonderfully along many lines during her administration. It may be claimed she was not directly concerned and active in all these developments and improvements, but undoubtedly her calm judgment, her gentle but strong insistence on the right, her decisions never controlled by the personal equation or circum- stance, her strict construction of the law, that defines the duties of those holding the trusts and offices of the Society, were a compelling and illuminating influence throughout the length and LETITIA GREEN STEVENSON 3$ breadth of the organization, and kept its pulse from at any time reaching a dangerous temperature. As our President General, Mrs. Stevenson accorded every right and privilege to the least known member of the Continental Congress, she put herself in helpful touch with the most timid