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Minnesota (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
Must give it without the manuscript, and must borrow a gown to give it in. Minnesota in winter The twistings and turnings of a lecture trip have brought me twice, in the present season, to Minnesota. ... To an Easterner, a daily walk or two is the first condition of health. Here, the frost seemed to enter one's very bo I do not undertake this jaunt without Bostonian fears of death of cold, but Minnesota cold is highly stimulating, and with the aid of a bottle of hot water, I makenpoetic sleeper, I asked at what hour of the night the cars would pass out of Minnesota on the way back to Chicago. This sincere testimony from a veteran of travel,des a great promise of future prosperity and eminence. Kansas Travel in Minnesota was living romance. Travel in Kansas is living history. I could not cross ir. She preached in all parts of the country, from Maine to California, from Minnesota to Louisiana; but the pulpit in which she felt most truly at home was that of
St. Peter (Minnesota, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
at can I do? she asked. The answer was ready. The New England Woman Suffrage Association was formed, and she was elected its first president. This office she held, with some interruptions, through life. It is well to recall the patient, faithful work of the pioneer suffragists, who, without money or prestige, spent themselves for the cause. Their efforts, compared to the well-organized and well-financed campaigns of to-day, are as a certain upper chamber compared with the basilica of St. Peter, yet it was in that quiet room that the tongues of Pentecost spoke. I am glad, she often said, to have joined the suffrage movement, because it has brought me into such high company. The convert buckled to her new task with all her might, working for it early and late with an ardor that counted no cost. Oh! dear Mrs. Howe, you are sofull of inspiration cried a foolish woman. It enables you to do so much! Inspiration! said dear Mrs. Howe, shortly. Inspiration means perspirati
Colorado (Colorado, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
d became part of the laws of Massachusetts. Elsewhere she writes: In Massachusetts the suffragists worked for fifty-five years before they succeeded in getting a law making mothers equal guardians of their minor children with the fathers. In Colorado, when the women were enfranchised, the next legislature passed such a bill. Of the movement by which women won a right to have a voice in the education of their children, she says: The proposal to render women eligible for service on the Schoolnd, and I hope it may be before my end comes. Her last service to the cause of woman suffrage was to send a circular letter to all the editors and to all the ministers of four leading denominations in the four oldest suffrage States, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Idaho, asking whether equal suffrage worked well or ill. She received 624 answers, 62 not favorable, 46 in doubt, and 516 in favor. A letter from her to the London Times, stating these results, appeared on the same day that the news
Israel (Israel) (search for this): chapter 17
xtended over forty years or more. These occasions were often exasperating as well as fatiguing. She never wearied of presenting the arguments for suffrage; she often suffered vexation of spirit in refuting those brought against it, but she never refused the battle. If I were mad enough, she said once, I could speak in Hebrewl She was mad enough when at a certain hearing woman suffrage was condemned as a minority cause. Her words, if not in Hebrew, show the fighting spirit of ancient Israel. We quote from memory:-- The Reverend --: The fact that most women are indifferent or opposed is a sufficient proof that woman suffrage is wrong. Mrs. Howe: May I ask one question? Were the Twelve Apostles wrong in trying to bring about a better social condition when almost the whole community was opposed to them? Dr.----: I suppose that question was asked merely for rhetorical effect. Mrs. Howe (having asked for two minutes to reply, with the whispered comment, I shall die i
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 17
the other in some points of policy, notably in the fact that men as well as women were recognized among the leaders. Colonel Higginson was its president at one time, Henry Ward Beecher, Bishop Gilbert Haven, and Dudley Foulke at others. The New England Woman's Club also admitted men to membership: it was a point our mother had much at heart. She held that the Quaker organization was the best, with its separate meetings of men and women, supplemented by a joint session of both. She always i was met at first with derision and with serious disapproval. The late Abby W. May had much to do with the early consideration of this measure, and the work which finally resulted in its adoption had its first beginning in the parlors of the New England Woman's Club, where special meetings were held in its behalf. The extension of the school suffrage to women followed, after much work on the part of men and of women. These meetings, she said once, speaking before the Massachusetts Woman S
Wellesley (search for this): chapter 17
women ministers. The hour had come, and the women. In all these varying manifestations of one great forward and upward movement in America, Julia Ward Howe was pars magna. Indeed, the story of the latter half of her life is the story of the Advance of Woman and the part she played in it. The various phases may be taken in order. Oberlin, the first coeducational college, was chartered in 1834. Vassar, the first college for women only, was chartered in 1861, opened in 1865. Smith and Wellesley followed in 1875. Considering this brave showing, it is strange to recall the great fight before the barred doors of the great universities. The women knocked, gently at first, then strongly: our mother, Mrs. Agassiz, and the rest. They were greeted by a storm of protest. Learned books were written, brilliant lectures delivered, to prove that a college education was ruinous to the health of women, perilous to that of future generations. The friends of Higher Education replied in words
Ednah Cheney (search for this): chapter 17
erry. She loved to travel with her dear big Livermore, with Lucy Stone, and the faithful Blackwells, father and daughter; perhaps her best-loved companion was Ednah Cheney, her esteemed friend of many years, excellent in counsel and constant and loyal in regard. Once she and Mrs. Cheney appeared together at an A. A.W. meetingMrs. Cheney appeared together at an A. A.W. meeting in a Southern city, where speaking and singing were to alternate on the programme. It was in their later years: both were silver-haired and white-capped. Our mother was to announce the successive numbers. Glancing over the programme, she saw that Mr. So-and-So was to sing The two Grenadiers. With a twinkling glance toward Mrs.Mrs. Cheney, she announced, The next number will be The two Granny Dears! The Reverend Antoinette Blackwell, describing one of these journeys, says:-- As we went onward I was ready to close my eyes and loll or look lazily out to see the flying landscape seem to be doing the work. When I roused enough to look at Mrs. Howe she wa
Fanny Longfellow (search for this): chapter 17
off beefsteak, porksteak, etc., and we make a comfortable meal. I desire to purchase some dried buffalo meat, and find some, not without difficulty, as the season for selling it is nearly over. The crowning romance of the day is a sleighride of five miles on the Mississippi, giving us a near view of its fluted bluffs and numerous islets. We visit also the Falls of Minnehaha, now sheeted in ice, but very beautiful, even in this disguise. We talk of Hiawatha, and my companion says, If Mr. Longfellow had ever seen a Sioux Indian, he would not have written Hiawatha. The way to the bottom of the falls is so slippery with ice that I conclude not to attempt it. The day, which was one of great exposure, passed in great pleasure, and without chill or fatigue. ... In my days of romance, I remember watching late one night on board the Mediterranean steamer in order to be sure of the moment in which we should pass beyond the boundaries of the Italian shore. Something like such a feeling
Maria Mitchell (search for this): chapter 17
f that year. She says of this call:-- Many names, some known, others unknown to me, were appended to the document first sent forth. My own was asked for. Should I give or withhold it? Among the signatures already obtained, I saw that of Maria Mitchell, She had a great regard and admiration for Miss Mitchell. Scientific achievement seemed to her well-nigh miraculous, and roused in her an almost childlike reverence. and this determined me to give my own. She went to the Congress, and Miss Mitchell. Scientific achievement seemed to her well-nigh miraculous, and roused in her an almost childlike reverence. and this determined me to give my own. She went to the Congress, and viewed its proceedings a little critically at first, its plan appearing to her rather vast and vague. Yet she felt the idea of the Association to be a good one; and when it was formed, with the above title, and with Mrs. Livermore as president, she was glad to serve on a sub-committee, charged with selecting topics and speakers for the first annual Congress. The object of the Association was to consider and present practical methods for securing to women higher intellectual, moral, and ph
Florence Buck (search for this): chapter 17
lden, Massachusetts) built by its pastor, Mrs. E. M. Bruce, who was also its trustee, janitor, choir, and preacher; heard how for thirteen years this lady had rung the bell every evening for vesper service, and had never lacked a congregation: or of the other woman who was asked very diffidently if she would conduct the funeral services of an honest and upright man who had died of drink, owing to an inherited tendency. They had expected to have it in the undertaker's rooms, said the Reverend Florence Buck, of Wisconsin, but we had it in my own church. It was packed with people of all sorts, who had been interested in him; and the Bartenders' Union were there in a body.... It was an opportunity that I would not have given up to preach to the President and Senate of the United States. Next day... they said, We expected she'd wallop us to hell; but she talked to us like a mother! Then she turned to the president, and said, The woman minister is often lonely. I want to thank Mrs.
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