It must count.
[Illustration: LADY ABERDEEN President of the International Council of Women.] The International Council of Women discusses every important question presented, but makes no decision until the opinion of the delegates is practically unanimous.

It commits itself to no opinion, lends itself to no movement, until the movement has passed the controversial stage.
Those who cling to the old notion that women are perpetually at war with one another will learn with astonishment that eight million women of all nationalities, religions, and temperaments are agreed on at least four questions.

In the course of its twenty years of existence the International Council has agreed to support four movements: Peace and arbitration, social purity, removing legal disabilities of women, woman suffrage.
The American reader will be inclined to cavil at the last-mentioned object.

Woman suffrage, it will be claimed, has not passed the controversial stage, even with women themselves.

That is true in the United States and in England.