the innovation instead of Mrs. Miller 's. Later Mrs. Miller visited Wash-J ington and New York in her new costume o.nd created considerable sensation. As Mrs. Miller puts it, she did j not retvirn to the old swaddling clothes j for seven years after she first abandoned them. ; j It was on July 5, I860 that Colonel Miller and his family moved to Geneva from Peterboro. Previously a I number of their kinsmen and intimate j friends had located here. Mrs. Mil-j lev's brother, Green Smith, had pre-j viously come here and resided for a time in their present homo on Loch-laud Koad, but desiring to make a I change he left 'Geneva and arrange: ! ments were made for the Millers to I take the house. It is in this same j house which has been given the name i j of Loehland, and where many distin-! guished. guests have been entertained, j that they have since lived and it is j here that Colonel Miller died on Feb-j ruary 2, ISOO. I Mrs. Miller has always been noted | as an accomplished housekeeper. She acquired the art by long experience in managing her father's hospitable I home at Peterboro, and a3 she had a , i natural taste for ¦ household duties her I tact and skill developed with years. -During her early residence in Geneva she conceived the idea of making .some money of her own, not that she- actually needed the' money, ibut because she thought it would be an example to others, to develop habits of thrift. She had no taste for embroidery, tout a natural ability as a cook, so she -turned her hand to the making of orange marmalade. Her net profits were nearly $1,000, which with wise investment increased to $2,500. When ¦Henry H. Loomis announced1 on April 5th last that he had given his woods to the city for the public park, Mrs. Miller also announced that she would give this $2,5C0 to the city for a drinking fountain to be placed .at the entrance of the park. From time to time this money has .been loaned to assist young women to acquire an education, while her desire to set an example of thrift by her marmalade venture has also resulted in a family which was on the -, i verge of bankruptcy, being started in , .the preserving .business and in securing its financial independence. j In order that her wide experience in eowking and domestic affairs generally might ibecome available for others i Mrs. Miller compiled a cook-book, j This book was originally published by j Lee and Shepherd of Boston and New York in the summer of 1S75. The sim- | plicity of its style and excellence of | its recipes immediately brought it into prominence and from time to time new editions have been issued. The later issues have been printed by Henry | Holt & 'Co. of New York, who became the successors of Lee & Shepherd. Very early in life Mrs. Miller's independence of thought and action led her to become an ardent supporter of woman suffrnpr. alf-hnno'h as a. cirl of sixteen she took no interest in the movement and was the subjet of her father's ridicule for her indifference upon the subject. Throughout the later days of the movement Mrs. Miller has been actively associated with all phases of rhe work, and has been an intimate friend of such leaders as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Anna Howard Shaw. It was upon the initiative of Mrs. Miller that the State Suffrage Association held its convention here in October, : 1897, which resulted in the organization of the Geneva Political Equality Club on November 30th, of the same year. Like her mother Miss Miller has been an active worker in the suffrage movement. "Miss Miller first took the platform in the interest of equal suf- I f:age at the. time of the state consti- j tutional convention in 1894 and from that time to the present she has at- j tended, together with her mother, prae- j tically all of the state suffrage conventions. At the organization of the Geneva Cluib Miss Miller became presi-[dent, a position which she has held practically ever since, w.hile her mother has held the position of .honorary president. It was principally through the instrumentality of Mass Miller that the Ontario County Political Equality Association was organized in 1903. Outside of the Political Equality Club Miss Miller's principal interest has been music. She has ibeen an earnest student of- both vocal and instrumental music and a devout patron of the art. Almost from its beginning Miss Miller has ibeen associated with the Geneva Choral Society and has served the society as president in the years in 1898-1899. 1903-1904 and 1906. Her interest in society has found its expression principally in the establishment \and management wfi •Camp Fossenvue on the east shore of Seneca lake, where she has entertained scores of distinguished people. In connection with Miss VerPlank, Miss Miller started the camp in 1875. When the I camp was 25 years old in 1900 she i commemorated it-; anniversary by pub-jlishing a volume called "Embers from i Fossenvue Backlogs" which contains extracts from a log book kept at the camp. While not a. member of any of the orthodox churches, Miss Miller has .for years 'been deeply interested in the philosophy of religion. For thirty years she has been a member of the Society of Ethical Culture, which was founded by Philix Adler, and has ajso j been actively associated with the Society for the Expression of the Christ Ideal iu Boston. j Both Mrs. and ;M.-i^; Miller havs j ¦been interested in all of the pu'blic i charities of the city. They have been liberal benefactors of Geneva City ; Hospital and Miss Miller has th;e ! honor of making the first gift to Will- i ! iam Smith College after its founding ' by presenting a plate glass window ! to the Elizabeth Blackwell .House. A j more important 'beneficence to the col- ' lege was made .by Mdss Miller on April -5th last when she gave William Smith : ..College $2,C-0'0 to create a permanent ¦ I endowment, the interest of which is ¦to pay the tuition of a Geneva ga-1 in the college. Last evening Mrs. Miller presented the Elizabeth Blackwell I House with a portrait of the w.omau for which it was named. *__ •.:>^.J ! '\_ [ POEM FOR MRS. CATT. /\ "Girls of the Inside Room" Send ^5> , Birthday Greetings in Verse. \ : Mrs. C'rrrie Chapman Oil, President of ! tile I iiuvii.--ii ionai WuiiiHii Snl Tr.ise Alli-v v^ janec, iijul ( 'iKi inun n <.!' ii:e X.-;t inmil riuf-^^~ [ffirge Ass'iciaii.ni, which is s;el.t iiik up Uie ¦ /v^ 'women's petiiion 10 C'uii.'.ret.v. - w-Iehrat^d' ' ^ 'her birthday yesterday. as told in This Times. Mrs. C'atc s net hesitate to V\ say .that il is a nrticth anniversary, and ^r ^> .she. received many lM>ii"i>\ One with ^ 1 which she iv;i? ].;uLieiil;n-]y ;.i'-nsed was \j )a poem from " Tin.- Gir.s in ih<; Inside ^ |Koom." V The petition headquarters are in rooms v^ at the Marina Washingriun Hole], where "\Vi | Mrs. (.'alt has her office. Her assistants \k are in an adjoining' rouiu. tin? "inside I room." The poem is frum them.. Hero. it is: .- •¦ ¦ ¦ \\v TO Ol'R BI:ai'K)IS LAW*"' '.;; ^ ^ i The Germans have a j,.rrUy word ..... For her they seek to holier; , They name her ." Gracious. .Lady," awl . Call folessin.gs down upon her. \ j You are our Gracious 1/ady, sweet; \^ '. Long days, tho' we dun'i. 'netid 'em. ^ ! We've watched you at your thankless job ^» I Of bringing human freedom. V *ii 1 We've.-n-atehed your s]»nder snowy liancl-, yXV | To push the great world, toiling, ij( ( To dras or lead it one inch on From out its sordid moiling. ¦ ^/ Wi'e -watched your prUience with the fool, s\V Tho bore, the fraud, the fakar, x^ >