tands
ever ready to second her endeavors with generous aid and
wise counsel, another instance of the happy homes among the
"strong minded."

Among the estimable women who have been identified with the cause
of woman suffrage in this country, Mathilde Franziska Anneke, a
German lady, is worthy of mention:

She was born in Westphalia, April 3, 1817. Her childhood was
passed in happy conditions in a home of luxury, where she
received a liberal education, yet her married life was
encompassed with trials and disappointments. From her own
experiences she learned the injustice of the laws for
married women and early devoted her pen to the redress of
their wrongs. Her articles appeared in leading journals of
Germany and awoke many minds to the consideration of the
social and civil condition of woman.

She was identified with the liberal movement of '48, her
home being the resort for many of the leaders of the
revolution. She published a liberal paper which freely
discussed all the abuses of the government, a whole edition
of which was destroyed. At length denounced by the
government, she secretly made here escape from Cologne, and
joined her husband at the head of his command in active
preparation for a struggle against the Prussians.

She immediately declared her determination to share the
toils of the expedition. Accordingly Col. Anneke appointed
her _Tolpfofsort_, the duties of which she continued to
discharge to the end of the campaign. In one of her works
published in 1853, she has given a graphic description of
the disastrous termination of the revolution, of their
flight into France, of their expulsion from France and
Switzerland, and of their final determination to come to the
United States.

They reached New York in the fall of 1849. Madame Anneke
lectured in most of the Eastern cities on the social and
civil condition of women, claiming for them the right of
suffrage and more liberal education. She also published a
woman's journal in New York, and was soon recognized as one
of the earnest representative women in America. For many
years she mad