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From Loraine I went to Elyria and in the afternoon we motored over to Oberlin, the first college in America admitting women on equality with men.  I was the guest there of Professor and Mrs. Wolf who showed me the great growing elm planted when the college was founded at the opening of the underground railroad from which negroes were led to freedom. Standing near by was the very beautiful memorial built to the students and graduates of Oberlin who were massacred for their faith in the Boxer uprising in China. In the evening I spoke for nearly two hours at a street corner from a chair to about 500 men and some women. It was most inspiring, for the questions came thick and fast, not only on woman suffrage but on land values, on questions of general taxation, on the physical valuation of railroads, on every conceivable law regarding the care and protection of women and children, etc., etc. I had to bluff some of my answers, much to my chagrin, because I did not know enough to answer them intelligently, and I tell you I have a growing respect for the intelligent interest in civic affairs of our average man. I will have to study up hard and fast so as not to be cornered. Standing on a wobbly chair is very uncomfortable and made my legs ache as if they had been chained for hours. From Loraine I went to Youngstown, Ohio, and was met there by Mrs. Bray, the wife of the President of the Steel Company, the largest in America after the United States Steel Company's factories. I spoke there in a church with the consent of the minister who, however, disapproved