THE CONGRESS OF WOMEN.
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we are all bound by ties of love and loyalty, and a picture which has the power of evoking feeling. It is more than this—it is the materialization of the dignity of a great office—the first world office made and bestowed by women.
Ladies of the National Board, at the close of your appointed efforts, I congratulate you upon the selection of a president who has justified your hopes and made a reality of your dreams, and upon the choice of a painter who has made the dignity you created a perpetual one.