If they had good "mothers, who looked well after their "offspring and saw that the children "attended school, who at the earliest " stages taught them cleanliness, and, in "respect to the girls, educated them to "take part in the household duties ; "mothers who were clean* and tidy in "themselves, who made the most of tho "earnings of the breadwinner, and who " saw that tho house was made cheerful " and attractive, they would iind that the " husbaud and father appreciated his wife's "efforts, that he found no place like " homo, and that the whole family " were happy and contented." In re gard to legislation, Mrs Seddon* con tended that whilst it must be ad mitted that some laws bore hardly upon women, the greatest care re quired to be taken in introducing amendments lest greater evils should result. " It would be a sorry day for " New Zealand were our marriage laws to " bring about results that they found ob "taining in the United States of "America." The marriage laws of a nation had much to do, she went on to say, with the morality and social well being of the people, and if the marriage ceremony were to be looked upon as nothing more than a nominal contract, to be broken by either side at will, " the " result must in the end be destructive to " that higher, brighter, and happier state of " things which it was so desirable to pro "mote." Mrs Seddon complained that whilstagreatdeal had been said and written about improving the social condition of women, little in that direction had been done, and she referred to several measures which had been before Parliament and had received but scant consideration. It would be the business of the League to enforce attention thereto. The League claimed, she declared, that women should have equality with men in controlling all material matters, tho improvement of social conditions, the adjustment of the laws of labor and the pay ment therefor ; that in respect to lunatic asylums, industrial schools, hos pitals, and local government women should have greater powers of administra tion than are at present conceded. 