ection for fifteen or more officers. It is but a
small thing to ask, that each of you cast one-fifteenth part of his
vote to represent women's interest at the polls.

[Signed:] Clemence S. Lozier, M. D., Bronson Murray, Susan A. King,
Hamilton Wilcox, Lillie Devereux Blake, Albert O. Wilcox.

[250] Abigail Scott Duniway, editor _New Northwest_, Oregon;
Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, editor "Woman's Kingdom," Chicago
_Inter-Ocean_; Helen M. Gougar, editor _Our Herald_, Indiana.

[251] On the evening of March 8 the New York city society gave a
reception in honor of the delegates to the National Convention,
recently held at Washington, in the elegant parlors of the Hoffman
House.

[252] Mrs. Gage, Mrs. Howell, Mrs. Rogers, Mrs. Duniway and Mrs.
Gougar.

[253] Imprisonment for not more than five years, or a fine of not
more than $1,000, or both.

[254] The last census shows there are 72,224 more women than men in
New York; that there are 360,381 women and girls over ten years of
age who support themselves by work outside their own homes, not
including the house-keepers who, from the raw material brought into
the family, manufacture food and clothing three times its original
value.

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Carrie Burnham--The Canon and Civil Law the Source of Woman's
Degradation--Women Sold with Cattle in 1768--Women Arrested in
Pittsburgh--Mrs. McManus--Opposition to Women in the Colleges and
Hospitals; John W. Forney Vindicates their Rights--Ann
Preston--Women in Dentistry--James Truman's Letter--Swarthmore
College--Suffrage Association Formed in 1866, in
Philadelphia--John K. Wildman's Letter--Judge William S.
Pierce--The Citizens' Suffrage Association, 333 Walnut Street,
Edward M. Davis, President--Petitions to the
Legislature--Constitutional Convention, 1873--Bishop Simpson,
Mary Grew, Sarah C. Hallowell, Matilda Hindman, Mrs. Stanton,
Address the Convention--Messrs. Broomall and Campbell Debate With
the Opposition--Amendment Making Women Eligible to School
Offices--Two Women Elected to Philadelphia School Board,
1874--The Wages of Married Women Protected--J. Edgar Thomson's
Will--Literary Women as Editors--The Rev. Knox Little--Anne E.
McDowell--Women as Physicians in Insane Asylums--The Fourteenth
Amendment Resolution, 1881--Ex-Governor Hoyt's Lecture on
Wyoming.

In the demand for the right of s