At the time of the elections, we sent a copy of Mrs. Fredrikke Palmer’s drawing called “Waiting for the Returns” with a little sketch of the artist to a number of first class dailies.  A number of these papers used it, giving full credit to the Woman’s Journal.

The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association has a showcase on the sidewalk in front of its headquarters where it displays pictures, clippings, novelties and anything that may capture the interest of the passing pedestrian.  We asked to have the Journal displayed there each week and to have special articles clipped and attractively mounted.  This has been done with benefit to both the Association and the Journal.  The suggestion might well be adopted for every suffrage headquarters.  The cost is very slight and the people whose attention one gets in this way are not those, as a rule, who attend suffrage meetings or are easily reached.  They are the great host of “passers-by.”

A method of publicity for the Journal and the cause which has been adopted successfully by many individuals is that of displaying a copy of the Journal on the library table in one’s home.  In some cases the front page drawings have been considered so good that requests have been received to have extra copies struck off for use in showcases, bulletin boards and booths.

Other suffragists adopt other methods of making the paper known to the public.  Some make a point of earning a copy to read in the street car or train whenever possible.  Anyone who tries this will find many and many a pair of eyes diverted to the picture or the appearance of a publication with which the onlooker is not familiar.  Ardent partisans of the Journal always mention it in reports and speeches at meetings and even in debates.  They are usually persons who have been converted to the principle of equal suffrage by a stray copy of the Journal sent to them by ardent friend!

=A Word In Time=

[Illustration:  Margaret Foley]

Miss Margaret Foley has been doing Field Work for the Woman’s Journal since the elections in November.  She has been working as an experiment to see if Journals cannot be sold successfully at all suffrage meetings when from three to ten minutes are devoted to calling attention to the paper from the platform.

From the last thirteen meetings at which she sold papers and took subscription orders she got $74.42.  Many of the meetings were small and at the larger number of them the attendance was made up mostly of those who already subscribe for the paper.  Miss Foley’s work is proof positive, if such were needed, that it pays to mention the Journal at suffrage meetings and to have it on sale and to take subscriptions.  The results she has had can be duplicated at every suffrage meeting in the United States where 100 or more are gathered together, and a word spoken in time at suffrage meetings saves much of the more expensive converting and canvassing to bring out the vote when election time comes.  One of the greatest wastes of the movement today is the failure of those in charge of meetings to make provision for this part of propaganda work.