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endowment twenty years ago ; and she had the strength of char- acter and breadth of view that well-directed culture gives. In per- son her presence was commanding, yet gentle ; she had a fascinat- ing smile that won the timid and hesitating. She was also gifted with the power of wise selection and discriminating intuition that places the right person to lead an important work, as illustrated in her choice of Mrs. Stranahan to preside, at intervals, in the Second Continental Congress; Mrs. Hogg, as her adviser in question of lineal descent ; Mrs. S. V. White, that marvelous phil- anthropist, to initiate the "daughters" work in the superb monu- ment to the Prison Ship Martyrs; Mrs. Dempster to emphasize our determination to save the Stars and Stripes from desecra- tion; and Mrs. Shepard, to organize the all-important task of giving material life to our dream of a marble palace for our ' ' memorial and Home ' ' in the Capitol of our Nation. These appointments were like an inspiration, and still more so was the skilled and sagacious way in which she, herself, led our National Society at the World's Columbian Exposition, be- ing on record with Mrs. Palmer, Mrs. Henrotin and the group of women notable in that event, of American women. We were proud of our President General, standing in the glare of the ' ' Great White City, ' ' in the presence of the assembled world. Do you wonder then that when our gracious and popular President General, Mrs. J. W. Foster, declared that it was im- possible for her to serve in that office more than one year, that we turned eagerly to our true and tried leader, Mrs. Stevenson, and that again, at much personal sacrifice of ease and leisure,