The chemist at the corner, a colleague in the Municipal Council, entered the shop.

While women householders in Great Britain and Ireland have the municipal franchise, a much larger number in this country have a partial suffragea vote on questions of special taxation, bonds, etc., in Louisiana, Iowa, Montana, Michigan, and in the villages and many third-class cities in New York, and school suffrage in over half of the States.

A Conciliation Committee was formed of sixty members from all parties, who prepared a bill that would enfranchise only women householders, those who already had possessed the municipal franchise since 1869.

The municipal franchise was conferred on the women of Scotland in 1882, and of Ireland in 1898.

ENGLISH COLONIES The Parliament of New Zealand gave school suffrage to women in 1877, municipal in 1886, and Parliamentary in 1893.

The six States of Australia had municipal suffrage for women from the early days of their self-government.

In all the provinces of Canada for the last twenty years widows and spinsters who are rate-payers or property-owners have had the school or municipal suffrage, in some instances both, and in a few this right is given to married women.

There are cities in India where women property-owners have a vote in municipal affairs.

SCANDINAVIA The Parliament of Norway in 1901 granted municipal suffrage to all women who in the country districts pay taxes on an income of 300 crowns (about $75), and in the cities on one of 400 crowns; and they were made eligible to serve on councils and grand and petit juries.

After strenuous effort on the part of women the Parliament of 1907, by a vote of 96 to 23, conferred the complete franchise on all who possessed the municipal.

In 1910, by a vote of 71 to 10, the taxpaying qualification for the municipal vote was removed.

More than twice as many women as voted in 1907 went to the polls in 1910 at the municipal elections.

Sweden gave municipal suffrage to tax-paying widows and spinsters in 1862.

Then came the rise of the Liberal party and the Social Democracy, and by 1909 the new Franchise law had been enacted, which immensely increased the number of men voters, extended the municipal suffrage to wives, greatly reduced the tax qualification, and made women eligible to all offices for which they could vote.

Denmark's Parliament in 1908 gave the municipal suffrage to women on the same terms as exercised by menthat is, to all over 25 years of age who pay any taxes.

Iceland, a dependency of Denmark, with its own Parliament, gave municipal suffrage in 1882 to all widows and spinsters who were householders or maintained a family, or were self-supporting.

In 1902 it made these voters eligible to all municipal offices, and since then a fourth of the council members of Reykjavik, the capital, have been women.

Most of them are concentrating on the municipal franchise, which those of Prussia claim already belongs to them by an ancient law.

Committees have several times reported a bill, and that of M. Dussaussoy giving all women a vote for Municipal, District, and General Councils was reported with full parliamentary suffrage added.

Siam has lately adopted a constitution which gives women a municipal vote.

He proceeded to catalog various reforms which might remedy this, such as better housing, the increase of park areas, the erection of municipal hospitals, the provision for an adequate milk supply, and many another, but he did not make the very obvious suggestion that women might be of service in a situation involving the care of children less than a year old.

It is he who has conceived and promulgated the following edict: "In consideration of the patriotic demands of a large number of National Guards, who, although they are married men, wish to have the honour of defending their municipal rights, even at the expense of their lives ..." I should like to know some of those National Guards who attach so little importance to their lives!

the reform laws were promulgated, which were followed in the next year by the municipal law.

There was a municipal appropriation of 350 pesos per annum for library purposes, but since 1898 it has not been available.

A municipal council was installed, and the king granted the island a coat of arms which differed slightly from that used by the authorities till lately.