told you she was my right bower I did not know what a right bower
was. I have learned that, since last night."

She waited until the happy chortles of her hearers had subsided, and
then went on.

"It interests me very much, however," she concluded, "to realize that
every one of you seemed to know all about a right bower, and that I had
to come to your good, orthodox town to get the information."

That time the joke was on the audience. Miss Anthony's home was in
Rochester, New York, and it was said by our friends that on the rare
occasions when we were not together, and I was lecturing independently,
"all return roads led through Rochester." I invariably found some excuse
to go there and report to her. Together we must have worn out many
Rochester pavements, for "Aunt Susan's" pet recreation was walking,
and she used to walk me round and round the city squares, far into the
night, and at a pace that made policemen gape at us as we flew by. Some
disrespectful youth once remarked that on these occasions we suggested a
race between a ruler and a rubber ball--for she was very tall and thin,
while I am short and plump. To keep up with her I literally bounded at
her side.

A certain amount of independent lecturing was necessary for me, for I
had to earn my living. The National American Woman Suffrage
Association has never paid salaries to its officers, so, when I became
vice-president and eventually, in 1904, president of the association,
I continued to work gratuitously for the Cause in these positions.
Even Miss Anthony received not one penny of salary for all her years of
unceasing labor, and she was so poor that she did not have a home of her
own until she was seventy-five. Then it was a very simple one, and
she lived with the utmost economy. I decided that I could earn my bare
expenses by making one brief lecture tour each year, and I made an
arrangement with the Redpath Bureau which left me fully two-thirds of my
time for the suffrage work I loved.

This was one result of my all-night talk with Miss Anthony in Chicago,
and it enabled me to carry out her plan that I should accompany her in
most of the campaigns in which she sought to arouse the West to the
need of suffrage for women. From that time on we traveled and lectured
together so constantly that each of us developed an almost uncanny
knowledge of the other's mental processes. At any point of either's
lecture the other could pick it up and carry it on--a fort