All persons who have ever tried to raise money for a worthy cause, all suffragists who have given balls and bazaars, all who have labored to make an audience pledge its last dollar for suffrage, all who have ever tried to run an impecunious newspaper, all who have ever tried to finance any kind of a movement for the betterment of mankind, will know that the figures given here are written in blood and should be read only by those of an understanding and sympathetic heart.

1908—­1915

Cost Circulation

1909.................. $5,303    2,328

1910.................. 10,020    3,989

1911.................. 18,510   15,275

1912.................. 24,499   19,309

1913.................. 24,588   20,309

1914.................. 27,509   21,303

1915.................. 38,137   27,634

[Illustration:  THE CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Left to Right-First row Haxel McCormik, Franklin Grammar School Marie Spink, Western Reverse University, Ethel Costello, Cambridge Commercial College, Second row:  Helen Hegarthy, Charlestown High, Eleanor Falvey, South Boston High, Edith Mosher, Comer’s Commercial College, Agnes McCarthy, South Boston High, Mary Collins, St. Joseph’s Academy Third row:  Isabel McCormick, Boston University; Donna Cox, Belmont High, Ethel Johnson, Fisher Business College, Lucia Gilbert, Berlin High.]

[Illustration:  THE GENERAL STAFF

Left to Right—­First row Vina Smith, Wellesley College, Agnes E. Ryan,
Boston University, Elizabeth Costello, Comer’s Commercial College,
Howard L. Blackwell, Harvard University.  Second row Carlisle Morris,
Harvard University, Mildred Hadden, Western Reserve University, Henry
Bailey Stevens, Dartmouth College, Ethel Power.  Third row Joe B.
Hosmer, University of Missouri, Mary Gallagher, Bryant and Stratton
Commercial School, Thomas Kennedy, Mary Healey, Fisher Business
College, Thomas McGrath, Lawrence Grammar School.]

=Some Changes=

To the friends of the Woman’s Journal who used to visit its office on Beacon Street, and remember the tiny room with its staff of two or three workers, the pictures of the office staff on the accompanying pages will come as a surprise.  This is the 1916 staff, however, and the movement has grown most encouragingly in every branch since the quiet days on Beacon Street.

Every phase of the Journal work, from handling a subscription list of about 30,000 to answering a thousand and one questions of debaters, press chairmen and speakers, has grown to such proportions that it has been necessary to divide the work into ten variously developed departments, which will be described in the following pages.

=It Speaks for Itself=

The Editorial Department in the main speaks for itself and does not need a special report.  It has its seamy side, however, and little as people want to believe it, it is not merely the literary branch of the work.  On the contrary, the editorial work of the Woman’s Journal is, figuratively speaking, divided into sevenths.  It is one part literary or journalistic, two parts business, and four parts propaganda.