miliar with the goddess of fashion than
Miss Flora they did not walk arm in arm with her, they at least
followed at no great distance and were, to a woman, finished off
with the regulation back-bow of loops and ends. Spite of herself,
Miss McFlimsey became interested, and when Miss Anthony mentioned
the fact that the majority of men felt it necessary to talk down
to women, instead of sharing with them their best thoughts and
most vital interests, Flora looked reflective, as if in that
direction might lie the clew to the insufferable stupidity which
she often found in the young gentlemen of her acquaintance.

That a Woman Suffrage Convention should have been allowed to
organize in the parlors of Congress Hall, that those parlors
should have been filled to their utmost capacity by the habitual
guests of the place, that such men as Millard Fillmore, Thurlow
Weed, George Opdyke, and any number of clergymen from different
parts of the country, should have been interested lookers-on, are
significant facts that may well carry dismay to the enemies of
the cause. That the whole business of the Convention was
transacted by women in a dignified, orderly, and business-like
manner, is a strong intimation that in spite of all that has been
said to the contrary, women are capable of learning how to
conduct meetings and manage affairs. Even the least friendly
spectator was compelled to admit it, that the delegates to the
Convention were as free from eccentricity in dress and manner as
the most fastidious taste could demand; that they were remarkable
only for the comprehensive range of thought, indicated in their
utterances, and the earnestness with which they advocate
principles which they evidently believe to be right. Another fact
worth noticing is the character of the reports of the Convention
furnished to the daily papers. They were, for the most part,
full, impartial, and respectful in tone; especially was this the
case with the local papers. Altogether, the Woman Suffrage
Conventions in the State of New York must be regarded as a
decided success. The interest manifested shows that thought on
the subject is no longer confined to the few, but that it is
gradually permeating the whole public mind.

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