Early suffrage organization -- Efforts in political conventions -- Work in Legislature -- Laws -- Amazing decisions of Supreme Court on the right of women to practice law, keep a saloon and vote -- Struggle for police matrons -- Women organized in fifty departments of work. CHAPTER XXXIX. IOWA 628-637 Long years of organized work -- Continued refusal of Legislature to submit a Woman Suffrage Amendment to voters -- Convention of the National Association in 1897 -- Liberal laws for women -- Many holding office -- Bond Suffrage. CHAPTER XL. KANSAS 638-664 Organization work and large number of conventions -- Granting of Municipal Suffrage -- Alliance with parties -- Efforts for Full Suffrage -- Amendment submitted -- Republicans fail to endorse -- Campaign of 1894 -- National Association and officers assist -- Amendment defeated by defection of all parties -- Attempt to secure suffrage by statute -- A pioneer in liberal laws for women -- They hold offices not held by those of any other State -- Official statistics of woman's vote -- Many restrictions placed on Municipal Suffrage -- Class of women who use the franchise. CHAPTER XLI. KENTUCKY 665-677 Organization -- Efforts to secure Full Suffrage from Constitutional Convention -- State Association succeeds in revolutionizing the property laws for women -- School Suffrage -- Educational facilities, etc. CHAPTER XLII. LOUISIANA 678-688 Women's work at Cotton Centennial and in Anti-lottery Campaign -- Organization for suffrage -- Efforts in Constitutional Convention of 1898 -- Taxpayer's Suffrage granted to women -- Campaign in New Orleans for Sewerage and Drainage -- Measure carried by the women -- Napoleonic code of laws. CHAPTER XLIII. MAINE 689-694 Organization for suffrage -- Legislative action and laws -- Office-holding of women -- Occupations -- Education -- Clubs. CHAPTER XLIV. MARYLAND 695-700 Same as above -- Pioneers in Woman's Rights -- Women vote in Annapolis -- Contest of Miss Maddox to practice law -- Work of women for Medical Department of Johns Hopkins University. CHAPTER XLV. MASSACHUSETTS 701-750 Pioneer work for suffrage -- New England and State Associations and May Festivals -- List of Officers -- Death of Lucy Stone -- Anti-Suffrage Association formed -- Fifty years of Legislative Work -- Republicans declare for Woman Suffrage -- Submission of Mock Referendum -- Campaign in its behalf -- Activity of the "antis" -- Measure defeated, but woman's vote more than ten to one in favor in every district -- Laws -- Equal guardianship of children -- School Suffrage -- Women in office -- Education -- Pay of women teachers. NATIONAL SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS 750-754