came. The deed was done. Woman's honor,
woman's purity, woman's domestic felicity, woman's conjugal
love, woman's fidelity to her home duties, all these and a
thousand other of the finer qualities were destroyed. No
more peace in families; no more quiet home evenings; no more
refined domestic women; but wrangling and discords instead.
Soldiers and sailors, policemen and gravel-shovelers had
taken the place of wives and mothers. Sick at heart I went
to my home and wept for American womanhood. But the sun rose
as usual, and the world still revolved. I went to the
police-court--all was quiet. I passed to the county-court,
and looked over the docket--no new divorce cases met my
gaze. With unsteady hand I have opened the morning papers
for the past few days, but nothing there betrayed the
terrible results of that false step. Oh, women! women! In
the days of Indian warfare, the skilled hunter would tell
you that after an attack, when all was quiet, and you
thought the enemy had departed, the greatest danger awaited,
and the most careful vigilance was required. So I still keep
watching, for I know the vengeance of the gods must fall
upon this worse than Sodom, for since women have voted,
surely there be not five righteous within the city. Real
estate is not falling, however, but then!--

The evening after the election, the friends of the
association and of the successful tickets, gathered to
witness the incoming of the new administration. Hearty words
of cheer for the future were spoken. The president, Mr.
Gleason, delivered a beautiful inaugural address, of which I
send you a few sentences, and the meeting adjourned.

The president said: While thanking you most heartily, ladies
and gentlemen, for the distinguished honor conferred upon me
in the election, I do not forget that it is due to the great
principles of equal rights and universal suffrage--not to
any merits of my own. We live in an age of progress. In my
humble opinion we have taken a great step forward in
admitting ladies to the management of this association--not
only from the fact that in this particular instit