The W.C.T.U. at the Exhibition.

White Ribbon, Volume 12, Issue 141, 13 February 1907, Page 9

The W.C.T.U. at the Exhibition.

Ot it Portrait Gallery. A fascinating hour may he s|K*nt at the W.C.T C. Hay studying the portraits ranged upon its walls of women and men who are or have been engaged in the work of uplifting humanity. Prominent among the pictures is that of the Countess of Aberdeen, President of the International Council of Women (with which the W.C.T C. is alliliated).

an organisation representing sixty millions of women,of divers nationalities but united in desire anil work for Woman Suffrage, Purity, and the Abolition of War. Close by is the photograph of another present-day worker a grand-niece, we understand, of Harriet Hceeher Stowe Charlotte Perkins (iilman, tin' fearless American writer and speaker. The photograph of Mrs Cadbury, the English philanthropist and worker in the Woman Movement, is not far away. The face ol the late Mrs Cady Stanton, who worked so long and vigorously with Lucretia Mott and Susan 15. Anthony, looks cheerily dow n ; while higher still on another wall is the portrait of Mrs Priscilla Bright McLaren, who, in November hist, at the age of ninety-two, passed into the clearer light of the Great Beyond.

Three bright little post cards attract at Unit ion. These have lately been received by our N.Z. President from the President of the ( nion of Japan, Mrs Kaji Yajima. They are a visible token of the spirit which has linked together in service for their fellows the Eastern and the Western, the dark skin and the white skin, the peeress and the peasant, the rich and the poor.

The Thousandth Baby.—The millionth visitor to t ie Exhibition has been duly honoured by the presentation of a watch ; now arrangements are being made to give a prize to the thousandth baby entering the Childrens Rest.